Six Dodge City High School forensics students qualified for the National Invitational Tournament of Champions recently.
According to DCHS forensics coach Johnny Dunlap, to qualify, the students must earn two bids at qualifying tournaments by placing high enough to win a bid. For an idea of how difficult this is, the team competed in seven NIETOC qualifying tournaments to earn their six qualifiers, said Dunlap. Qualifying tournaments are the largest tournaments in the state and feature the best competitors.
The NIETOC National Tournament will be held online from May 5-8.
The NIETOC qualifiers for DCHS were:
Senior Alicia Santos; Dramatic Interpretation Original Oration.
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The American Legion District 8 Oratorical Scholarship Contest was held at Dodge City Post 47 on Sunday, Feb. 21.
Three contestants gave presentations about the U.S. Constitution in a prepared presentation.
The presentation was from Article II Section 3 of the Constitution which states:
He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.
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After competing in two tournaments over the weekend, the Dodge City High School forensics team will be sending five more students to the state tournament after bringing home 12 medals in Wichita East and Garden City tournaments.
According to DCHS forensics coach Johnny Dunlap, the forensics team competed in the Wichita East Blue Aces Forensics Invitational from Wednesday, Feb. 3, through Saturday, Feb. 6.
The team then competed in an all-live-streaming event hosted on Feb. 8 by Garden City. This tournament was similar to their first tournament in that the students competed both asynchronously via recorded performances, then in a mix of live-streamed events and finals on Saturday, Dunlap said of the Wichita East tournament, where the forensics team won four medals.
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On Dec. 12, the Dodge City High School debate team finished out its 2020 regular season with a win in its third tournament in four weeks.
The debate squad placed first in the Moundridge four-speaker tournament on the strength of one of its teams posting a perfect 10-0 record along with runner-up honors against a field of 15.
A second team posted an 8-2 mark.
“We had a very productive day,” said DCHS debate coach Steve Ray. “Winning the tournament at Moundridge was a goal we set for ourselves this week because we had never done that before. More importantly, though, we were hoping to use this tournament to qualify people for the state meet, and that is exactly what we did. We had some people who really stepped up their game to make that happen.”