Speech Goes to Allstate

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Brooklyn Draisey
Columnist
                Two teams from the Southeast Polk speech team went to the All-State speech festival on Saturday, February 21. The festival was held at Iowa State University, mainly in Stephen’s Auditorium and the Scheman Building.
                The two teams that qualified for All-State were choral reading and short film. To qualify for All-State, the teams must get ones in both districts and state, then get recommended and selected to perform at All-State. The competition is fierce, and many people don’t make it, even if they get all ones at state.
All-State is more of a festival than a competition, and the teams don’t get ratings or scores. They perform and are acknowledged for making it to All-State, and then the best performance in each category is chosen. The winner takes home the banner announcing their category. There’s also a trophy for the school that brings the most teams to All-State.
Choral reading performed First Dates, a comedic demonstration of the different kinds of first dates that don’t make it to a second. Some examples were “Neanderthal” and “Mind-Reader”. After announcing each type of date, they would sing a tidbit of a fitting song or quote a movie. Some of the performers were sophomore Talen Birchmier, junior Ethan Edvenson, and senior Austin Putz.
The short film was entitled Spectrum, and was about a marshmallow that never saw color until it found its love.  Its life started out black and white, but when it met a marshmallow with a scarf, colors started to come in. Their life progressed, and the ending is both unexpected and bittersweet.
Both teams performed admirably at All-State, but neither got best in their category.

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