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Susannah Mitchell
At the qualifying debate tournament at Blue Valley Southwest High School this past weekend, East claimed three of Kansas City’s six allowed teams for the national debate tournament. The tournament will take place in Ft. Lauderdale over Memorial Day weekend. The results are as follows:
SM East:
Henry Walter and Ali Dastjerdi — third place
Shrushti Mehta and Bhavish Dinakar — fourth place
Jack Werner and Parker Mitchell — sixth place
Lawrence High School:
Nina Andersen and Isabel Holloway — Open finalists — second place
Brittany Whitney and Hallie Haynes — Open quarterfinalists — fourth place
![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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