Forensics, a club that involves giving speeches and acting, has been comprised of duet scenes, dramatic monologues, original comedy, radio, etc.

Recently, freshman Samantha Hume, senior Nina Fox and junior Al Groppi qualified for the Forensics sectionals.

Hume has done an Oratorical Declamation which is when one takes a speech, such as a commencement speech and performs it herself (or part of it if the speech is longer than eight minutes).

She said at sectionals she had been happy that the audience laughed, stating, “There are people who intentionally stone-wall you so it makes it seem like you are doing a bad job.”

Also, she was glad the judges were responsive to her speech in how they laughed at the right times.

Hume stated, “I thought I did really well for myself.”

Also, junior contestant Ali Groppi has been earning consistently high scores throughout this season and spoke of her experience during the 2014-15 school year in her events.

Groppi said, “I do presentation events such as Informational Speaking and Special Occasion Speaking.”

Explaining further, she stated, “Informational is when you write an unbiased speech on one topic. SOS is when you write a speech as if you are talking to a specific crowd-i.e, a graduating class, an ACT prep course or an Alcoholics Anonymous program.”

Speaking of her particular successes and pitfalls, Groppi said, “Overall I scored pretty high this season! I think at least the speech writing portion of my events were done well. I was pretty bad performing under stress though-when I would make it to the finals, I would choke! That is something I am going to work on for next year.”

The last sectional contestant, senior Nina Fox, has competed in dramatic duet acting and dramatic interpretation. Dramatic duet acting has been a dramatic scene in which one performs a with another person. Dramatic interpretation has been a monologue that lasts eight minutes. At regionals, she had advanced to sectionals for her dramatic interpretation.

Fox had been surprised by “how rehearsed and how intense some pieces can be.” She had noted, “People can get very into their pieces.”

She joined forensics because she loves acting and public speaking. She mentioned she likes it because she gets to “compete against other and never change the way you do things, whereas with stage acting, you are encouraged to change how you do things.”