Stevens Debate

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East VS West! Lets go Penguins!! 🐧😍🥳

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Our first interp tournament is tomorrow morning in Belle Fourche! Who’s excited?! 🥳🐧

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Please help me congratulate Dylan Tipton who competed in supplemental extemporaneous debate nationals this week in Louisville Kentucky and made it to double finals! We find out tomorrow morning how his journey continues!!!! 🥳🥳🐧🐧

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CONGRESS QUALS! 💼🖋
Congratulations to Haar squared for qualifying in House! Cerys and Melinda are alternates!
Megan qualifies in Senate, and Emily is an alternate!
Melinda receives the Karl E. Mundt Award!!

It has been a FANTASTIC year! We’ll see you all in Kentucky! 🏆

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Team dinner after State Debate! 🥳😊

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Our PFers are up bright and early this morning, with a little bit of liquid courage! Good luck today at state debate everyone!

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WE’RE GOING TO NATS! 🥳
Stevens SWEEPS international extemp with three qualifiers! BIG congratulations to Ian Steiner, Jade Pelayo, and Elaine Chang!! Go Penguins!! 🐧 <3

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Happy Quals from Coach Charalet and the rest of Stevens!! Congratulations everyone! We’ll see you at State and Congress quals! ☺️

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HAPPY QUALS DAY!!
Follow shs_debate_memes on Instagram for some fun stress relief via Stevens-specific memes about qualifiers and our suffering!! 🥳☺️

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Very serious preparation for quals going on tonight

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Working concessions!! Come watch some b-ball and perhaps donate to our team ☺️‼️💸

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Happy Lewis and Clark 2022!! 🗺
Ian places 3rd in Congress
Chang and Matute are winners in NPF!
Congratulations everyone, go Penguins!! 🐧🎉

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… and some bloopers as well 🎉

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Brookings Bell Results! 🔔
Friday - Evelyn Haar is a finalist in Congress, Dianna Lassodelavega is Top Novice in Drama!!
Saturday - Melinda Darnell is Congress finalist, Evelyn Haar 2nd, and Thomas Haar 1st AND Top Speaker!! Awesome job penguins. 🐧

Happy Holidays everyone!

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We sent 6 competitors to State in 6 events, and 3 of them received Superior - which, for reference, is the most amount of Superiors that Stevens has received in the past 4 years. We are so proud of our team and all the hard work they’ve put in so far. On to Quals season we go! 🎉

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State Interp Results!! 🏅
Emily Helgeson - Superior in Non-Original Oratory
Daniel Dunnigan - Superior in Humor
Daisy Lassodelavega - Superior in Drama

Additionally, Melinda in Poetry and Daniel/Ian in Duet were ONE point away from a Superior rating.

AWESOME job, Penguins! 🐧

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We are officially on the way to State Interp in Huron! Good luck to all competitors this weekend and we hope everyone has a wonderful time!

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BIG NEWS FROM MITCHELL! 🥳🥳
HUGE congratulations to Elaine Chang and Olivia Boerger for FIRST in NPF!
Additionally, Elaine placed 3rd in NX and Euana Matute placed 5th in Poetry!
We are SO PROUD of our young team and so excited to see where they go from here. 💙🤍 Go Penguins!

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Part 2 of guess where Stevens debate team is stranded for the night?!
Hint: we are literally not in South Dakota

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Any guesses where the Stevens debate team is stranded for the day?

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HUGE congratulations to Elaine Chang and Dylan Tipton, who went 5-0 in elims and broke to quarterfinals, receiving 7th in NPF. Additionally, we are SOO proud of Elaine for receiving Top Speaker! Go Penguins!!