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ACADEMIC CONTEST
April 11 -12, 2008


Information for Speech Contestants:

Each school with a regional meet contestant in any individual event or debate must provide a judge for that event and/or debate.  EXAMPLES: Your school has one individual event competitor; you must provide a judge qualified to judge Informative and Persuasive Speaking and Prose and Poetry.  Your school has a debater; you must provide a debate judge.  Your school has an individual event competitor and a debater; you must provide a judge for each category. 

NOTE: Entrants from schools not providing judges will not be allowed to participate in regional.    

For each round of competition judges will be considered "Stand By" judges unless they already have been schooled.  If they have been schooled, judges should report to the lobby of the Education Building where they will be released when all the rounds are covered.

Judges must submit their name, email address, telephone number, and the area(s) of competition they are most qualified to judge to Suzanne Dickenson at suzanne.dickenson@acu.edu



Beginning of Contests:

 Friday  April 11, 2008

5:45 p.m.
6:00 p.m.

Roll Call (L-D Debate)
L-D Debate  - 1st. Round

7:00 p.m. 

L-D Debate  - 2nd. Round

8:00 p.m.

L-D Debate  - 3rd. Round
 Saturday  April 12, 2008

7:30 a.m.

Computer Application -Set Up

7:45 a.m.

Poetry Interpretation - Prelims
Prose Interpretation - Prelims

8:00 a.m.

Number Sense
Ready Writing

8:30 a.m.

Computer Applications

9:00 a.m.

Current Events

9:30 a.m.

Calculator Applications

10:30 a.m.

Journalism Roll Call

10:45 a.m.

Informative Speaking - Prelims
Persuasive Speaking  - Prelims

11:00 a.m.

Accounting 
News Writing
Science
Spelling/Vocabulary

11:30 a.m.

Literary Criticism

Noon

Feature Writing

1:00 p.m.

Computer Science - Written Test  
L-D Debate  - Quarterfinals
Social Studies

1:30.m.

Editorial Writing
Poetry Interpretation  - Finals
Prose Interpretation  - Finals

2:00 p.m.

L-D Debate  - Semifinals
2:30 p.m.

Headline
Mathematics

3:00 p.m.

L-D Debate  - Finals
3:15 p.m. 

Computer Science Hands-On

3:30 p.m.

Informative Speaking  - Finals
Persuasive Speaking  - Finals