CC’s forensics team recently participated in the speech state finals. The state finals in Group Discussion consisted of a forty- seven person pool, drawing students from around the state. Those who qualified had to place above a certain threshold twice in different competitions during the season. Co-founder and president of the team, Kevin Fan...
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On Thursday, February 7th, a troupe of CCHS students traveled by plane to the nation’s capital, Washington D.C., to attend the Junior State of America Winter Congress conference over the weekend. The ten students, myself included, are members of the Junior State of America club. The club, which is the largest student-run high school...
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While many people remember sport state finals, the debate state finals are often neglected. Last weekend on Saturday, December 1st, the Debate team completed the Newton South Speech and Debate Tournament where multiple students from Concord-Carlisle High School qualified for state finals. In this tournament there were three CC students, Adam Oriola’14, Kevin Fan’15,...
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Not many students at CC know about the school’s debate team, which is smaller and more laid back than most other schools’, but nonetheless it has proven to be a formidable squad this year. The team mainly competes in two events: the Lincoln-Douglas debate and Group Discussion. Lincoln-Douglas (or LD for short) is a...
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If nothing else, this year’s Republican primary is certainly hotly contested. Currently, there is no clear frontrunner, even though some candidates have more support than others; no one, however, would declare that there is a lack of candidates. To prove this, on September 7, no fewer than eight presidential hopefuls debated over issues ranging...
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On Saturday, April 2, CCHS sophomore Richard Zhou’13 of Kimball Road, Carlisle took awards at the Massachusetts Forensic League (MFL) State Debate Final. Zhou won third place in Varsity Lincoln-Douglas and second place in Speaker Award at Suffolk University, Boston MA. He was ranked as one of the top three performers in the category...
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