Nine middle school students represented Carrollwood Day School at the forensics meet on February 9th at Berkeley Preparatory School bringing home a 1st place honor!  All of the students worked very hard to research and present their competition pieces in the following categories, demonstrating that they are talented communicators and true risk-takers!

For Original Oratory students perform a speech that he/she wrote.  

• 1st Place:  Nishant S. (’27)

• Vishi K. ('28)

Declamation is where students perform a previously published speech.

• Lauren A. ('28)

• Ahroosh V. ('28)

• Owen P. ('28)

• Swara P. ('27)

Duo Interpretation of Drama is when pairs of students read from a script. 

• Amara M. ('27) and Sahana A. ('27)

In Oral Interpretation of Poetry students read a poem.

• Zayaan M. ('27) 

Congratulations to all.

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The Carrollwood Day School Forensics Team is one of the clubs open to all middle school students. The team is coached by middle school learning specialist, Aliya Killion. CDS is a member of the Bay Area Forensics League competing in public speaking with students from other area private schools. CDS competed in four of the seven categories for competition at this meet.