Congratulations to our Alpha Speech Team for their success at the 2015 GFCA Speech and Debate State Championship. Our team won 2nd place in Overall Team Sweepstakes and 2nd Place in Speech Sweepstakes. Christina Nguyen was crowned state champion in Humorous Interpretation. Other successes include Conner Kocks,2nd Place in Humorous Interpretation, followed by Lara Strydom, 3rd Place, and Grace Palmer, 5th Place. In Dramatic Interpretation, Deja Holmes placed 2nd, Morgan Shields, 3rd, Nalah Hill, 5th, and Karthik Ramaswami, 6th. Kelly Lumpkin and Tate Rehklau finished 2nd in Dup Interpretation, Nalah Hill & Milx Barbose, 3rd, Christina Nguyen & Suma Yellamraju, 4th, Sarah Curtis & Alex Atchison, 5th, Anders Nelson & Karthik Ramaswami, 6th. Emma Svitil took 3rd Place in Prose & Poetry, and Aakash Malhotra was a semi-finalist in Impromptu Speaking.