Power Speaker Makes it a Power Round

Student Reporter: Samantha Lamers



To many of us, public speaking is something we try to avoid whenever possible, but to one sophomore, Mary Asma, forensics is an exciting activity. Mary has currently been doing forensics for two years now and she is in the storytelling category. In the storytelling category, there are five different subcategories; A Story with Numbers, A Hans Christian Anderson Story, Chinese Folktale, A Story with Music, and A Story with Poverty. For each of these categories she must have a story prepared for the judges. The judges will then randomly select which subcategory she will read from.


So far this year, Mary has won a total of two awards, one at the Westosha tournament in which she received third place in the power round for the storytelling category and another at the Waterford tournament where she received first place in the power round also for storytelling. When Mary was asked about forensics she replied, “Being in forensics is an awesome experience. To most people, public speaking doesn’t sound fun, but we all have a blast at forensic meets.”