Washburn Rural High School (Topeka, KS)
-The SME debate squad placed first in sweepstakes out of 39 schools. This is East’s fifth year sweeping this tournament.
Individual awards:
-Liam Murphy/Sam Tulp 6-0 in Varsity- 1 seed
Quarterfinalists-fourth place (DCI Bid)
-Michael Kennedy/Max Werner 6-0 in Varsity- 2 seed
Quarterfinalists- fourth place (DCI bid)
-Jack Mitchell-Seth Myers 4-2 in Varsity (DCI bid)
-Ada Throckmorton/Utsa Ramaswami 4-2 in Varsity (DCI bid)
-Chase Derusseau/Jamie McDonald 4-2 in Open
Speaker Awards
-Ada Throckmorton- fourth in Varsity
-Liam Murphy- fifth in Varsity
-Sam Tulp- sixth in Varsity
-Henry Walter-fourth in Open
-Karl Walter- fifth in Open
Blue Valley Southwest-
-Ali Dasjerdi/Shrusti Mehta 4-1 sixth place in Open
![Forest elephant vs honey bee. Most people would say that the elephant has the easy victory in this situation but Junior Mallory Wilkerson decided to take the risk and side with the bee for one of the first rounds in the biology class March Mammals Madness competition.
The honey bee created an upset by not only beating the elephant in the first round but also defeating the Flame Bowerbird in the second round of the animal tournament. Wilkerson ended up winning the tournament in her IB Biology class with 82 points out of the possible perfect bracket 128.
“I did get into it and I looked up every single animal, and the how the weird battlefields worked or whatever the habitat was,” Wilkerson said. “Most of it was just applying some logic but [the March Mammal Madness tournament] was a fun and easy way to get some extra credit.”
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