Mid-Prairie High School large group speech students will enter district competition tonight (January 22).

However, Speech Coach Christy Meader says COVID-19 safety concerns mean changes in how the contest is conducted, “In a normal year, we would go to a different school for this contest, but during the pandemic we opted to hire a judge to come and observe and to judge our district contest at our school and that’s also how we’re going to conduct the rest of our contests and just have the judges come to us and our school only.”

Meader says they’ll approach the districts like a Mid-Prairie sporting event with the same attendance requirements recently approved by the school board: four tickets per participant, coach, and student manager, while also allowing siblings to come. She says students will perform in nine different categories and they will know tonight who will advance to the state contest February 6th. 

Mid-Prairie Large Group Speech Participants & Categories:

Group Improv: Table for Two…Avery Frede and Zoe Fisher
Ensemble Acting: Art Of Manipulation…Alex Burnham, Chris, Burnham, Kyra Helmuth, Magnolia Graber
Musical Theatre: I Love You Because…Gavin Frascht, Olivia Caskey, Avery Slaubaugh
Group Improv: Transcondimentals…Magnolia Graber, Emily Marner, Terra Richardson
Ensemble Acting: Blind Date…Olivia Caskey, Haydon Bailey
Readers Theatre: Bats in the Belfry…Alex Burnham, Avery Frede, Elizabeth Meader, Kelby Gingerich, Samuel Harris
Group Improv: Banana Boys…Haydon Bailey, Chris Burnham, Diego Ayala
Ensemble Acting: From the Mouths of Babes…Terra Richardson, Gavin Frascht, Kelby Gingerich, Elizabeth Meader
Musical Theatre: Wicked…Kyra Helmuth, Emily Marner