Ivy Bridge Academy Fall 2023 News Includes Recent Tournament Results and Upcoming Tournament Information

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!

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!

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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