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

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

Speaker Award

12th Ethan Kwon
16th Janelle Yuan

Middle School Experienced PF

3rd Dalton Sun & Samuel Choi

Speaker Award

7th Dalton Sun
8th Samuel Choi

High School Novice PF

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

Speaker Award

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

High School JV PF

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

Speaker Award

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

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

Novice Team Awards

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

New Junior Varsity Speaker Awards

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

New Junior Varsity Team Awards

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

Junior Varsity Speaker Awards

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

Junior Varsity Team Awards

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

Varsity Speaker Awards

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

Varsity Team Awards

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

Congratulations to all students!

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

Middle School Speaker Award

1st Samuel Choi
2nd Dalton Sun

Middle School Team Awards

2nd Samuel Choi and Dalton Sun

High School Novice Speaker Award

2nd Yohan Kim
3rd Vedant Kalipatnapu
4th 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!

Join Our Weekend Debate Team Program!!

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