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NSDA Nationals
11-18 June 2016 Salt Lake City, UT NSHS - School of Honor in Speech Semi-finalists Aidan Bassett - Original Oratory (13th overall) Aidan Bassett - Impromptu Round 11 Ben Silvian & Malcolm Davis - PF Debate Octa-finalists James Rao - International Extemp Jason Ma - U.S. Extemp |
Back: Alan Tannenwald, James Rao, Isabella Xie, Ben Silvian, Malcolm Davis, Winson Ye, Lisa & Jim Honeyman
Front: Shira Abramovich, Rhea Dudani, Jason Ma, Aidan Bassett |
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NCFL Nationals
27-30 May 2016 Sacramento, CA Quarter Finalist Aidan Bassett - Original Oratory Octo-Finalists Jason Ma - Extemp James Rao - Extemp Double-Octo Finalists Kayla Chang & Mitch Gamburg - PF Debate Karina Aguilar & Deika Albert - PF Debate 
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Back: Kayla Chang, Mitch Gamburg, David Hu, Jason Ma, Lisa Honeyman
Middle: Alan Tannenwald, Karina Aguilar, Ayush Upneja, Aidan Bassett, Shira Abramovich, Isabella Xie, Isabel Autor, James Rao, Jim Honeyman, Rhea Dudani Front: Gil Alon, Deika Albert, Josh Cohen, Liel Dolev, Kim Gravlin, Siddhi Krishna, Winson Ye |
Seniors 2015-2016
Front: Veronica Podolny, Ruja Kambli, Sakshi Das, Winson Ye, Shira Abramovich, Jason Ma, Kim Gravlin, Amanda Stavis
Back: Bella Ehrlich, Ben Silvian, Andrew Fu, Sam Fishman, Nighat Ansari, Liel Dolev
Back: Bella Ehrlich, Ben Silvian, Andrew Fu, Sam Fishman, Nighat Ansari, Liel Dolev
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Debate TOC
30 April - 2 May 2016 Lexington, KY Ben Silvian & Malcolm Davis Quarter-Finalists in Public Forum Debate |
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State Speech Tournament
9 April 2016
NSHS 4th Place overall
9 April 2016
NSHS 4th Place overall
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STATE CHAMPION
Shira Abramovich - Play Reading Aidan Bassett - Original Oratory SECOND PLACE Aidan Bassett - Varsity Extemp THIRD PLACE Winson Ye - Varsity Extemp FOURTH PLACE Jason Ma - Varsity Extemp Rhea Dudani & Isabella Xie - Duo Interp FIFTH PLACE Lee Ding - Prose Reading "Heathers" - Multiple Reading Rhea Dudani - Original Oratory |
SIXTH PLACE
Mike Ryter - Congressional Debate James Rao - Impromptu FINALIST Bhavik Nagda - Congressional Debate DOUBLE-ENTRY Awards Ben Anderson-Krim - PFD & VX Aidan Bassett - OO & VX Malcolm Davis - PFD & MULT Rhea Dudani - OO & DUO HONORABLE MENTION Nighat Ansari - Radio Broadcasting |
State Debate Tournament
2 April 2016
NSHS 3rd Place overall
2 April 2016
NSHS 3rd Place overall
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PFD SPEAKER AWARDS
1st Speaker - Veronica Podolny 2nd Speaker - Ben Silvian 3rd Speaker - Rebecca Shaar 8th Speaker - Bella Ehrlich 10th Speaker - Malcolm Davis |
SEMI-FINALISTS in Public Forum Debate
Rebecca Shaar & Veronica Podolny Daniel Abdulah & Ben Anderson-Krim QUARTER FINALISTS in Public Forum Debate Malcolm Davis & Ben Silvian |
March Merriness at Needham
19 March 2016
NSHS 2nd Place overall
19 March 2016
NSHS 2nd Place overall
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FIRST PLACE
Nick Komarovsky - Novice Extemp James Rao - Varsity Extemp Jay Garg - Public Forum Speaker James Rao - Tabloid Extemp Heathers - Multiple Reading I. Autor, A. Bassett, Y. Dinoor, R. Dudani, E. Martignoni, K. Maypole SECOND PLACE Nighat Ansari - Radio Broadcasting Ilan Rotberg - Novice Extemp Winson Ye - Varsity Extemp Shira Abramovich - Freeze Improv THIRD PLACE Ben Anderson-Krim - Varsity Extemp Kayla Chang & Mitch Gamburg - Public Forum Debate FOURTH PLACE Amanda Stavis - Freeze Improv Ayush Upneja & Gil Alon - Public Forum Debate Max Plottel - Student Congress |
FIFTH PLACE
Liel Dolev & Yuval Dinoor - Duo Interp Juliet Cable - Prose Reading David Hu - Novice Extemp Ben Timbers - Varsity Extemp Juliet Cable - Mixed Duo Malcolm Davis - Varsity Lincoln-Douglas Debate Mike Ryter - Student Congress SIXTH PLACE Liel Dolev - Dramatic Performance Talia Harlow - Novice Reading Jennifer Kang - Freeze Improv SEVENTH PLACE Lily Borak - Dramatic Performance Anika Sridhar & Jay Garg - Public Forum Debate TOP NOVICE Kiran Maypole - Children's Literature Reading Anika Sridhar & Jay Garg - Public Forum Debate Max Plottel - Student Congress |
Mardi Gras Tournament at Shrewsbury
27 February 2016
NSHS 2nd Place overall
27 February 2016
NSHS 2nd Place overall
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FIRST PLACE
Aidan Bassett - Original Oratory Malcolm Davis - LD Speaker Award SECOND PLACE Shira Abramovich - Original Oratory Aidan Bassett - Varsity Extemp Malcolm Davis - Lincoln-Douglas Debate Sam Fishman - PFD Speaker Award THIRD PLACE Michael Ryter - Novice Extemp Winson Ye - Varsity Extemp FOURTH PLACE Lily Borak - Dramatic Performance Jaehun Lee - Play Reading FIFTH PLACE Rhea Dudani & Yuval Dinoor - Team Improv David Hu - Novice Extemp |
SIXTH PLACE
Daniel Abdulah - PFD Speaker Award Winson Ye - Impromptu SEMI-FINALISTS Daniel Abdulah & Hannah Phan - Public Forum Debate QUARTER-FINALIST Jason Ma - Impromptu James Rao - Impromptu Amanda Stavis - Impromptu HONORABLE MENTION Nighat Ansari - Radio Broadcasting Lily Borak - Prose Reading Kim Gravlin - Prose Reading Kim Gravlin - Poetry Reading Eu Ro Wang - Novice Extemp |
Millard North
19-20 February 2016
Omaha, Nebraska
Ben Silvian & Malcom Davis - 1st Place PFD
Karina Aguilar & Deika Albert - Semi-finalists - PFD
Ben Silvian & Malcom Davis - 1st Place PFD Round Robin
Ben Silvian - 1st Place speaker award PFD
19-20 February 2016
Omaha, Nebraska
Ben Silvian & Malcom Davis - 1st Place PFD
Karina Aguilar & Deika Albert - Semi-finalists - PFD
Ben Silvian & Malcom Davis - 1st Place PFD Round Robin
Ben Silvian - 1st Place speaker award PFD
Milton Miracle Tournament
20 February 2016
20 February 2016
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FIRST PLACE James Rao - Varsity Extemp SECOND PLACE Lee Ding - Prose Reading THIRD PLACE Ben Anderson-Krim - Varsity Extemp FIFTH PLACE Eu Ro Wang - Novice Extemp |
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Harvard Invitational
13-15 February 2016 SPEECH EVENTS FINALISTS Aidan Bassett - 6th Place - Original Oratory QUARTER-FINALISTS (top 24) James Rao - Varsity Extemp Winson Ye - Varsity Extemp OCTO-FINALISTS (top 60) Jason Ma - Varsity Extemp Aidan Bassett - Varsity Extemp |
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DEBATE
VARSITY DIVISION Ben Silvian & Malcolm Davis - Octafinalists (top 16) Hannah Phan & Bella Ehrlich - Triple octafinalists (top 64) Ayush Upneja & Cam Martin - Triple octafinalists (top 64) Malcolm Davis - 9th speaker Daniel Abdulah - 13th speaker Bella Ehrlich - 15th speaker Ben Silvian - 17th speaker |
JUNIOR VARSITY DIVISION Anika Sridhar & Jay Garg - Second Place Jack Sinclair & Mirea Klee - Double octafinalists (top 32) Gaby Lewis & Ellen Deng - Double octafinalists (top 32) |
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NCFL National Qualifiers
6 February 2016 Shrewsbury High School 
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ORAL INTERP
Kim Gravlin DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE Isabel Autor Liel Dolev (1st alternate) DUO INTERP Rhea Dudani & Isabella Xie |
EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING
David Hu Jason Ma James Rao Winson Ye |
ORIGINAL ORATORY
Shira Abramovich Aidan Bassett PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE Kayla Chang & Mitch Gamburg Ayush Upneja & Gil Alon Deika Albert & Karina Aguilar (1st alternate) |
NSDA National Qualifiers
29-30 January 2016
Sweepstakes award for overall excellence in both speech & debate
29-30 January 2016
Sweepstakes award for overall excellence in both speech & debate
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Traveling to Salt Lake City in June
Shira Abramovich - Original Oratory Aidan Bassett - Original Oratory Rhea Dudani & Isabella Xie - Duo Interp Jason Ma - U.S. Extemp |
James Rao - International Extemp Winson Ye - U.S. Extemp Malcolm Davis & Ben Silvian - Public Forum Debate Veronica Podolny & Rebecca Shaar - Public Forum Debate |
Newton South Winter Festival
9 January 2016
2nd Place Overall
9 January 2016
2nd Place Overall
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FIRST PLACE
Lee Ding - Novice Reading Kim Gravlin - Program Oral Interp Lily Borak - Prose Reading SECOND PLACE Rhea Dudani & Isabella Xie - Duo Interp James Rao - Varsity Extemp THIRD PLACE Heathers - Multiple Reading E. Martignoni, I. Autor, Y. Dinoor, R. Dudani, M. Sandler & K. Maypole Bhavik Nagda - Novice Extemp Yuval Dinoor - Program Oral Interp Winson Ye - Varsity Extemp Max Plottel - Congressional Debate FOURTH PLACE Liel Dolev & Yuval Dinoor - Duo Interp Sam Fishman - Public Forum Speaker Award Mike Ryter - Congressional Debate |
FIFTH PLACE
Amanda Stavis - Impromptu Ilan Rotberg - Novice Extemp Lily Borak - Play Reading Juliet Cable - Program Oral Interp SIXTH PLACE Liel Dolev - Program Oral Interp Kim Gravlin - Prose Reading Jay Garg - Public Forum Speaker Award NINTH PLACE Giulio Cataldo - Public Forum Speaker Award SEMI-FINALIST Amanda Stavis - Prose Reading QUARTER-FINALIST Hannah Cole & Hannah Phan - Public Forum Debate Jay Garg & Mirea Klee - Public Forum Debate TOP NOVICE Nikolas Lazar - Varsity Extemp Max Plottel - Congressional Debate |
Holly Festival
19 December 2015
2nd Place Overall (by one point!)
19 December 2015
2nd Place Overall (by one point!)
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FIRST PLACE
Lily Borak - Drama Audition Aidan Bassett - Novice Extemp Aidan Bassett - Programmed Poetry Lily Borak - Double Entry Award Aidan Bassett - Pentathlon Winner SECOND PLACE Rhea Dudani & Isabella Xie - Duo Interp Ben Anderson-Krim - Novice Extemp Jason Ma - Informative Speaking THIRD PLACE Winson Ye - Varsity Extemp Varun Mann - Novice Extemp Amanda Stavis - Extemp Kiddie Lit Karina Aguilar - Group Discussion Aidan Bassett - Original Oratory FOURTH PLACE "The Book of Murder" - Multiple Reading Lily Boark, Aaron Foster, Juliet Cable, Cassandra Luca, Jaehun Lee & Isabella Xie Deana Korsunsky & Cassandra Luca - Duo Interp Liel Dolev - Program Oral Interp Aidan Bassett - Prose Reading |
FIFTH PLACE
Jason Ma - Varsity Extemp Nicholas Komarovsky - Novice Extemp Shira Abramovich - Play Reading Mike Ryter - Congressional Debate SIXTH PLACE Kim Gravlin - Program Oral Interp Lily Borak - Prose Reading SEVENTH PLACE Jay Garg - Group Discussion SUPER SESSION Bhavik Nagda - Congressional Debate TOP NOVICE Deana Korsunsky - Prose Reading Catherine Granfield - Original Oratory HONORABLE MENTION Kiran Maypole - Children's Literature Reading Winson Ye - Impromptu David Hu - Novice Extemp Deana Korsunsky - Prose Reading Sakshi Das - Radio Broadcasting James Rao - Varsity Extemp Winston Jiang - Radio Broadcasting |
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Princeton University
4-6 December 2015 
Mike Ryter - 5th Place - Congressional Debate
Octafinalists - Public Forum Debate (top 16 teams) Karina Aguilar & Deika Albert Kayla Chang & Mitch Gamburt Ayush Upneja & Gil Alon Triple-Octafinalists - Public Forum Debate Claire Deng & Daniel Abdulah |
George Mason University
4-6 December 2015 Jason Ma - 4th Place - Extemp Round Robin Quarter-finalist at Patriot Games Jason Ma - Impromptu Jason Ma - Extemporaneous Speaking |
Lincoln-Sudbury Show Down
5 December 2015
Newton South - 1st Place
5 December 2015
Newton South - 1st Place
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FIRST PLACE
Aidan Bassett - Original Oratory Nighat Ansari - Radio Broadcasting Niki Samtani & Anna Neumann - Public Forum Debate Nicholas Komarovsky - Novice Extemp "The Book of Murder" - Multiple Reading Isabel Autor, Aidan Bassett, Juliet Cable, Cassandra Luca, James Rao & Isabella Xie SECOND PLACE Shira Abramovich - Original Oratory Rhea Dudani & Isabella Xie - Duo Interp Ben Silvian - PFD Speaker Award THIRD PLACE Kiran Maypole - Children's Literature Reading FOURTH PLACE Shira Abramovich & Amanda Stavis - Duo Interp Ben Timbers - Varsity Extemp FIFTH PLACE Maya Michlin - Children's Literature Reading Yuval Dinoor - Poetry Reading Jared Goodfriend - PFD Speaker Award |
SIXTH PLACE
Rhea Dudani - Original Oratory Hope Zhu - Novice Extemp SEVENTH PLACE Matthew Gubenko - Varsity Extemp Cassandra Luca - Impromptu SUPER-SESSION Bhavik Nagda - Congressional Debate QUARTER-FINALISTS (top 8 teams) Hannah Cole & Hannah Phan - Public Forum Debate Victoria Huang & Jack Sinclair - Public Forum Debate Jared Goodfriend & Ruja Kambli - Public Forum Debate TOP NOVICE AWARD Catherine Granfield - Poetry Reading Additional PFD SPEAKER AWARDS (among top 15) Hannah Cole - 8th place Malcolm Davis - 10th place Sam Fishman - 11th place |
Little Lexington Debate Tournament
21 November 2015
21 November 2015
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Varsity division
1st place - Rebecca Shaar and Malcolm Davis 2nd place - Anika Sridhar and Ben Silvian 5th place - Sophia Guan and Carol Zhang 8th place - Kayla Chang and Mitch Gamburg 10th place - Hannah Phan and Hannah Cole 5th speaker - Malcolm Davis 7th speaker - Daniel Abdulah 10th speaker - Ben Anderson-Krim Novice division 2nd place - Hanbo Lin and Justin Shuster 9th place - Alec Liberman and Allie Dagg 5th speaker - Hanbo Lin 6th speaker - Justin Lin |
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Gracia Burkill Memorial Tournament
14 November 2015
14 November 2015
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FIRST PLACE
Ben Anderson-Krim - Novice Extemp Nighat Ansari - Radio Broadcasting The Cards of Fate - Multiple Reading I. Autor, R. Dudani, K. Gravlin, D. Korsunsky, M. Martignoni, V. Sawhney SECOND PLACE Rhea Dudani & Isabella Xie - Duo Interp The Book of Murder - Multiple Reading J. Cable, L. Ding, A. Hirschhorn, J. Lee, I. Xie, L. Borak THIRD PLACE Sakshi Das - Radio Broadcasting Nikolas Lazar - Novice Extemp FOURTH PLACE Maxine Phillips - Novice Extemp |
FIFTH PLACE
Kim Gravlin - Poetry Reading SIXTH PLACE Lily Borak - Prose Reading Dalia Paris-Saper - Poetry Reading Ben Timbers - Varsity Extemp Hope Zhu - Novice Extemp SUPERSESSION Mike Ryter - Congressional Debate SEMI-FINALIST Deana Korsunsky - Prose Reading Matthew Martignoni - Prose Reading TOP NOVICE Deana Korsunsky - Prose Reading |
AWARD for PLACING FIRST in a ROUND
Ben Anderson-Krim - Novice Extemp Nighat Ansari - Radio Broadcasting Lily Borak - Prose Reading Juliet Cable - Prose Reading Sakshi Das - Radio Broadcasting Rhea Dudani & Isabella Xie - Duo Interp Kim Gravlin - Poetry Reading Deana Korsunsky - Prose Reading Nikolas Lazar - Novice Extemp Maya Michlin - Children's Literature Maya Michlin - Dramatic Performance Dalia Paris-Saper - Poetry Reading Maxine Phillips - Novice Extemp Mike Ryter - Congressional Debate Brigitte Tang - Children's Literature |
Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School
24 October 2015
NSHS 4th Place Overall
24 October 2015
NSHS 4th Place Overall
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FIRST PLACE Aidan Bassett - Novice Extemp SECOND PLACE Shira Abramovich & Amanda Stavis - Duo Interp Varun Mann - Novice Extemp THIRD PLACE Rhea Dudani & Isabella Xie - Duo Interp Rhea Dudani - Original Oratory Nikolas Lazar - Novice Extemp Winson Ye - Varisty Extemp FOURTH PLACE Shira Abramovich - Original Oratory James Rao - Varsity Extemp FIFTH PLACE Mona Baloch - Original Oratory Liel Dolev - Poetry Reading Jaehun Lee - Radio Braodcasting SIXTH PLACE Catherine Granfield - Original Oratory Jason Ma - Varsity Extemp Maya Michlin - Children's Literature Reading SEVENTH PLACE Maxine Phillips - Varsity Extemp TOP NOVICE Catherine Granfield - Original Oratory HONORABLE MENTION Ben Timbers - Varsity Extemp |
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Bronx High School of Science
16-18 October 2015
16-18 October 2015
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5th Place - Extemporaneous Speaking Jason Ma Semi-finalist - Original Oratory Aidan Bassett Sexto-Decimos - Public Forum Debate Ben Silvian & Malcolm Davis Round 8 Run-off - Public Forum Debate Veronica Podolny & Rebecca Shaar |
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Novice Tournament
10 October 2015
10 October 2015
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Yale University
18-20 September 2015
5th Place - Original Oratory
Shira Abramovich
5th Place Speaker - Public Forum Debate
Ben Silvian
Quarter-Finalists
Liel Dolev - Oral Interp
Aidan Bassett - Original Oratory
Octa-Finalists
James Rao - Extemp
Winson Ye - Extemp
Triple Octa-Finalists
Bella Ehrlich & Hannah Phan - PFD
Ben Silvian & Malcolm Davis - PFD
Veronica Podolny & Rebecca Shaar - PFD
Gil Alon & Ayush Upneja - PFD
18-20 September 2015
5th Place - Original Oratory
Shira Abramovich
5th Place Speaker - Public Forum Debate
Ben Silvian
Quarter-Finalists
Liel Dolev - Oral Interp
Aidan Bassett - Original Oratory
Octa-Finalists
James Rao - Extemp
Winson Ye - Extemp
Triple Octa-Finalists
Bella Ehrlich & Hannah Phan - PFD
Ben Silvian & Malcolm Davis - PFD
Veronica Podolny & Rebecca Shaar - PFD
Gil Alon & Ayush Upneja - PFD