Six Qualify for National Speech/Debate Contest

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Victor Fu, Alex Mutammara, Nishant Aranke, Ani Thkur, Drew Kaul, and Joshua Misrack have all qualified to compete at the National Speech and Debate Association National Tournament June 12-17 in Salt Lake City, Utah.  The following list are the results for the latest contest.

Team Awards (of 23 participating schools—including Dulles)

Overall Sweepstakes

Debate Sweepstakes

Public Forum Debate (team)

Victor Fu and Alex Mutammara 1st

Nishant Aranke and Ani Thakur 3rd

Gaurav Gomber and Vivek Sinha 6th

Lincoln-Douglas Debate (one-on-one)

Drew Kaul 3rd

Grant Lu 4th

Nikhil Kolluri 6th

Congressional Debate 

Joshua Misrack 1st

Jason Ancheta 4th

John Lin 6th

Arundhati Krishna finalist

Haya Panjwani finalist

United States Extemporaneous Speaking 

Joshua Misrack 3rd

Victor Fu 5th

Felix Tan 10th

International Extemporaneous Speaking 

Jefferson Ren 7th

Vivek Sinha 8th

Eric Chen 9th

Original Oratory 

Samantha Anwarsemi-finalist

*Worlds Debate (group)

Rangers 3rd

(Rahim Malik, Nandan Marwaha, Jefferson Ren, Samyukta Singh, and Rena Yan)

Stars 3rd

(Alex Chaumette, Joshua Jacob, Varsha Varghese, Lucia Zhang, and Emily Zhuang)

*Only 1st place qualifies for national tournament. The top 3 qualify in all other events. 

Commendable Participation 

Shayan Ali and Melinda Ding (PF Debate)

Snehal Bhamare (Original Oratory)

Eric Chen (LD Debate)