Archive for month: October, 2023

50th Harvard University National Debate Tournament

IBA is excited to announce that our students are working hard in preparation for the Harvard University National Tournament:

Tournament Information:

Grades 6-12
JV and Varsity Students Only
Place: Harvard University Campus

Tournament Dates: 2/17-2/19/2024
(7 a.m. – 8 p.m.)
Travel Dates: 2/16-2/20/2024
(Friday 11 a.m. to Tuesday 8p.m. 5 day trip)

Deadline to Register is 11/5/2023
Register Here!

Upcoming Tournament for After School Program Students

DATE: 12/9/23
TIME: 8:30 A.M. – 12:30 PM
LOCATION: Johns Creek High School

ES, MS, Novice, JV and Varsity Students Welcome

Deadline to Register is 11/15/2023
Register Here!

Georgetown University Debate Tournament Results October 6-8

(See update for High School Varsity Students HERE)

Middle School Rookie Public Forum

3^rd Ethan Kwon & Kavin Imaya Kumar
9^th Sophie Yang & Janelle Yuan
9^th Suhali Tirumareddi & Sritha Ganti

Speaker Award

12^th Ethan Kwon
16^th Janelle Yuan

Middle School Experienced PF

3^rd Dalton Sun & Samuel Choi

Speaker Award

7^th Dalton Sun
8^th Samuel Choi

High School Novice PF

2^nd Sneha Ramineni & Aanya Baddela
3^rd Sarah Verma & Avaani Joshi
3^rd Vedant Kalipatnapu & Tessica Selvaganesan
5^th Kate Ding & Ayati Yadav
5^th Soumya Goswami & Ayanna Das
17^th Rithwik Tamilselvan & Nachiket Hegde
17^th Rishin Shah & Anishka Majumdar
17^th Jui Park & Mei Kumaran
17^th Ananya Kommuri & Joanne Jeon

Speaker Award

1^st Aanya Baddela
2^nd Sneha Ramineni
5^th Tessica Selvaganesan
7^th Vedant Kalipatnapu
12^th Ayati Yadav
16^th Kate Ding
19^th Mei Kumaran
20^th Jui Park

High School JV PF

2^nd Allen Liu & Rajveer Nadkar
9^th Sapna Annambhotla & Caleb Lee
17^th Olivia Tye & Yohan Kim

Speaker Award

1^st Sapna Annambhotla
2^nd Caleb Lee
3^rd Rajveer Nadkar
4^th Allen Liu

Congratulations to all students and Coaches! IBA is so proud of your hard work!

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IBA Local Tournament Results September 30

Junior Varsity/ Varsity Topic: “Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its military presence in the Arctic.”

Novice Topic: “Resolved: The benefits of video games outweigh the harms.”

Novice Speaker Awards

1^st Vishal Alaparthi
2^nd Isaac Hong
3^rd Sahasra Natarajan
4^th Dhananjay Sachith
5^th Alexandra Jiang

Novice Team Awards

1^st Sanjana Verma
2^nd Neel Ganesh & Vishal Alaparthi
3^rd Isaac Hong & Amelia Teng
4^th Ashwanth Magesh & Ishaan Baddevolu
5^th Sahasra Natarajan & Leah Nair

New Junior Varsity Speaker Awards

1^st Anshu Edara
2^nd Riddhima Singh
3^rd Rudrasai Mukkavilli 
4^th Simran Melinamani
5^th Vridhi Kishore

New Junior Varsity Team Awards

1^st Daniel Li
2^nd Simran Melinamani & Alexandria Taylor
3^rd Rudrasai Mukkavilli & Sreekar Ainapurapu
4^th Brian Sun & Heemin Li
5^th Neha Dileep & Arshia Shylesh-Karuvath

Junior Varsity Speaker Awards

1^st Rishin Shah
2^nd Ethan Kwon
3^rd Anishka Majumdar
4^th Roy Kim
5^th Jai Yadav

Junior Varsity Team Awards

1^st Rishin Shah & Anishka Majumdar
2^nd Dena Hosein & Roy Kim
3^rd Ethan Kwon & Kavin Imaya Kumar
4^th Veer Bharat & Jai Yadav
5^th Sophie Zaprudsky & Annie Zhu

Varsity Speaker Awards

1^st Alyssa Chen
2^nd Allen Liu
3^rd Krishna Anand
4^th Tessica Selvaganesan
5^th Vedant Kalipatnapu

Varsity Team Awards

1^st Olivia Tye & Yohan Kim
2^nd Krishna Anand & Akshat Anand
3^rd Lanya Hu
4^th Allen Liu & Rajveer Nadkar
5^th Sapna Annambhotla & Caleb Lee

Congratulations to all students!

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National Speech & Debate Association Tournament Results Sept. 9-11

Middle School Speaker Award

1^st Samuel Choi
2^nd Dalton Sun

Middle School Team Awards

2^nd Samuel Choi and Dalton Sun

High School Novice Speaker Award

2^nd Yohan Kim
3^rd Vedant Kalipatnapu
4^th Tessica Selvaganesan

High School Novice Team Award

**Co-Champions: Ayati Yadav & Kate Ding Yohan Kim & Olivia Tye
Semi Finalist: Garv Singh & Aditya Mukker

Congratulations to all our students!! We appreciate all the students and Coaches hard work and preparation!

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