2023 National Online Forensics Middle School Championship Results
Congratulations to all the competitors at the 2023 Middle School Championships! We had 30 middle school programs from around the country compete . Read on below to see the award winners.
View the awards ceremony on YouTube.
Special congratulations to the following programs for winning sweepstakes:
Team Sweepstakes:
1st: Velasquez Academy 🏆
2nd: Able2Shine
3rd: Athens Debate
4th: Rowan County Middle School
5th: ModernBrain
Individual Event Sweepstakes
1st: Hannah Yang (Velasquez Academy) 🏆
2nd: Anna Feng (ModernBrain)
3rd: Yuelin Xiong (Able2Shine)
4th: Sienna Whitaker (Speech & Debate Institute)
5th: Samuel Ma (Velasquez Academy)
And here are the winners from the tournament!
(🏆 = National Champion, top ranked speaker)
Impromptu
Bronze Able2Shine Claire Au
Bronze Able2Shine Tina Jin
Bronze Able2Shine Ava Geng
Bronze ModernBrain Max Sun
Bronze Rowan County Middle School Lila Carlisle
Bronze Speech & Debate Institute Katherine Duan
Bronze Velasquez Academy Maya Lian
Silver Cogito Debate Aman Talib
Silver Cogito Debate Miya Zhu
Gold Velasquez Academy Samuel Ma
Gold Velasquez Academy Hannah Yang
Gold 🏆 ModernBrain Anna Feng
Informative
Bronze ModernBrain Anya Luo
Bronze Speech & Debate Institute Katherine Duan
Bronze Wilshire Academy Nicole Um
Silver Velasquez Academy Hannah Yang
Gold Velasquez Academy Natalie Chen
Gold 🏆 Nova 42 Academy Iris Chiou
Persuasive
Bronze Able2Shine Adalyn Zhang
Bronze Speech & Debate Institute Sienna Whitaker
Bronze Speech & Debate Institute Kate Hong
Bronze Velasquez Academy Ovee Dharwadkar
Silver Speech & Debate Institute Alice Lee
Gold Velasquez Academy Arshia Gottipaty
Gold 🏆 Rowan County Middle School Haylee Miko
Poetry
Bronze Advantage Communications Anya Dussa
Bronze Emerson Community Charter School Merrick Cheung
Bronze Rowan County Middle School Xander Black
Bronze Rowan County Middle School Lila Carlisle
Silver Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart Hadassah Broughton
Gold 🏆 ModernBrain Anna Feng
Prose
Bronze Rowan County Middle School Lila Carlisle
Bronze Rowan County Middle School Kainan Adkins
Bronze Rowan County Middle School Marcedes Whitt
Bronze Rowan County Middle School Xander Black
Silver Velasquez Academy Hannah Yang
Gold 🏆 ModernBrain Anna Feng
Storytelling
Bronze QD Learning Erika Chen
Bronze Rowan County Middle School Barrett Freidhoff
Bronze Rowan County Middle School Hattie Litton
Bronze Velasquez Academy Arshia Gottipaty
Silver Velasquez Academy Zimeng Dou
Gold 🏆 Brooks Debate Institute Amritha Pallamreddy
DUO
Bronze Able2Shine Tracy Wei & Hannah Zheng
Bronze Rowan County Middle School Marcedes Whitt & Kate Roberts
Bronze Rowan County Middle School Hattie Litton & Lila Carlisle
Silver Rowan County Middle School Haylee Miko & Jaylah Lawhorn
Gold🏆 Speech & Debate Institute Jackie Zhou & Sienna Whitaker
Declamation
Bronze ModernBrain Vivian Mei
Bronze Rowan County Middle School Marcedes Whitt
Bronze Velasquez Academy Arshia Gottipaty
Silver Velasquez Academy Hannah Yang
Silver Velasquez Academy Natalie Chen
Gold Brooks Debate Institute Aditi Sreeram
Gold 🏆 Velasquez Academy Sooah Kim
SPAR
Bronze Able2Shine Tina Jin
Bronze Able2Shine Michelle Zhang
Bronze Able2Shine Zhaohua Chen
Bronze Athens Debate Aditi Konda
Bronze Athens Debate Tara Sairam
Bronze Athens Debate Farah Thariq
Bronze Cogito Debate Logan Chinn
Bronze Cogito Debate Marcus Chien
Bronze ModernBrain Vivian Mei
Bronze ModernBrain William Shu
Bronze ModernBrain Anya Luo
Bronze Speech & Debate Institute Katherine Duan
Bronze Velasquez Academy Ovee Dharwadkar
Bronze Velasquez Academy Melody Wang
Bronze Velasquez Academy Yimeng Yuan
Silver Athens Debate Neha Nalumasu
Silver Cogito Debate Varnika Karthick
Silver Emerson Community Charter School Alyssa Hutchinson
Silver Wilshire Academy Jake Spark
Gold Able2Shine Yuelin Xiong
Gold Emerson Community Charter School Sophia Soltis
Gold ModernBrain Leon Le
Gold Velasquez Academy Angel Song
Gold 🏆 Albright Middle School Ephraim Nwabuko
NOF Parli - Top 3 Speakers
3 Able2Shine Connor Yu
2 Able2Shine Ellie Mui
1 Cogito Debate Milin Zhu
NOF Parli
Bronze Cogito Debate Milin Zhu & Varnika Karthick
Bronze Cogito Debate Miya Zhu & Logan Chinn
Silver iLearn Education Alisa Jiang & Joanne Kim
Gold Athens Debate Anshul Dandekar & Saaz Asudani
Congress
Bronze Albright Middle School Dat Nguyen
Bronze Athens Debate Nila Rajkumar
Bronze Athens Debate Farah Thariq
Bronze ModernBrain Alex Lihara
Bronze Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart Noah Mondello
Bronze Speech & Debate Institute Katherine Duan
Bronze Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart Vlada Sokol
Bronze Velasquez Academy Riyaan Shah
Silver Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart Brie Starghill
Gold Albright Middle School Ephraim Nwabuko
Gold Velasquez Academy Hannah Yang
Top Presiding Officer:
Athens Debate Farah Thariq
Public Forum
Bronze Able2Shine Felicity Du & Vincent Lu
Bronze Redwood Middle School Debate Alexander Mao & Josh Chatterjee
Silver Able2Shine Yuelin Xiong & Michelle Zhang
Gold Redwood Middle School Debate Fiona Liu & Claire Hou
Worlds
Silver Wilshire Academy Nathan Li & Jake Spark & Terry Park
Gold Velasquez Angel Song & Ovee Dharwadkar & Natalie Chen
LD - Top 8 Speakers
8 Able2Shine Tina Jin
7 Athens Debate Christopher Shin
6 Alter Ethos Debate Bohan Yuan
5 Athens Debate Anshuman Arun
4 Athens Debate Shivansh Sathya
3 Able2Shine Clemence Wong
2 The Golden State Academy Vihan Bhattacharjee
1 Redwood Middle School Debate Sanyukta Ravishankar
LD
Bronze Academy of Higher Learning Simran Suri
Bronze Athens Debate Christopher Shin
Bronze Athens Debate Abhinav Iyer
Bronze Athens Debate Saachi Kalra
Bronze Athens Debate Ayush Talapatra
Bronze Athens Debate Ananya Vinesh
Bronze ModernBrain Yutong Ma
Bronze The Golden State Academy Vihan Bhattacharjee
Silver Able2Shine Tiffany Au
Silver Athens Debate Shruti Gopalabhatla
Silver Athens Debate Shivansh Sathya
Silver Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart Maximus Wang
Gold Able2Shine Kelly Liu
Gold Able2Shine Tina Jin
Gold Academy of Higher Learning Kayla Lee
Gold Athens Debate Anshuman Arun
Extemp
Bronze Kudos College of Youth Leadership Michelle Zhang
Bronze QD Learning Zezhong Li
Bronze The Golden State Academy Junlan Wang
Bronze Velasquez Academy Angel Song
Silver Velasquez Academy Samuel Ma
Gold 🏆 Able2Shine Yuelin Xiong
Humorous Interp
Bronze Rowan County Middle School Hattie Litton
Bronze Speech & Debate Institute Allison Lin
Bronze Speech & Debate Institute Alice Lee
Bronze Velasquez Academy Ariana Dadgostar
Silver Speech & Debate Institute Sienna Whitaker
Gold 🏆 Rowan County Middle School Barrett Freidhoff
Dramatic Interp
Bronze Able2Shine Claire Au
Bronze Emerson Community Charter School Elia Chen
Bronze ModernBrain Anya Luo
Silver Brooks Debate Institute Cara Wang
Gold🏆 Velasquez Academy Ovee Dharwadkar