Milpitas Debate Fights Its Way Deep Into Elimination Rounds at Presentation High

Milpitas did well this weekend at the presentation high school debate Invitational where every every Milpitas team won a trophy. The sophomore sophomore team of Siddarth Vaidnathan and Neil Sharma made it to final round of public forum in the junior varsity division. Junior Nisha Porchezhiyan was awarded third speaker in varsity public forum out of 96 competitors. Sophomore Neval Mulaomervic was awarded 7th speaker in varsity public forum. Juniors Oishika Barat and Josephine Tai made it to semi finals and became the second team of ours to partially qualify for the Tournament of Champions held every year at the University of Kentucky in May. Sophomore Brandon Schletzbaum and junior Sana Jaffery cleared to the round of 16. In junior varsity public forum the sophomore team of Joshann Chiang and Areebah Iqbal cleared to tge round of 8. In 3 public forum tournaments we have sent 11 entries, and 10 of those 11 have cleared to elimination rounds.