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SLA Student Qualifies for World Schools Debate
This past Sunday, SLA senior Tigidankay Saccoh was chosen to represent the Valley Forge District in the 2018 World Schools Debate, to be held this June at the National Speech and Debate Tournament in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Only 12 students from across Eastern Pennsylvania are chosen for this honor each year.
Tigidankay was chosen through an application process based on her commitment to Speech and Debate over the past 3 years, her 470 accumulated competition and service points, and her rank of Distinction within the National Speech and Debate Honor Society.
Tigidankay becomes only the second SLA student to qualify for the NSDA National Championship, following in the footsteps of Kia DaSilva (class of 2017) who qualified last year, also in World Schools Debate.
Speech and Debate Team at State Qualifiers
The SLA Speech and Debate team sent two entries to PHSSL state championship qualifiers at LaSalle College High School last Saturday.
Senior captains Lydia Anderson and Tigidankay Saccoh competed in Public Forum Debate, while junior Nzinga Suluki took third place in Oral Interpretation of Prose.
Nzinga is now the District 11 Alternate to the State Championship tournament on March 16th and 17th.
Lydia had already auto-qualified for the tournament in Impromptu Speaking, while Tigidankay is similarly auto-qualified for Congressional Debate in the House of Representatives.
Designing with linear systems
The Foundations of Algebra class were tasked with creating designs by only graphing linear functions (equations & inequalities), solving systems to find key points, and restricting domain & range. Here's what they came up with:
(Photo credit: Hayley Paige Barci)
