Our students delivered one of our strongest tournament performances of the year at the Middle School Tournament of Champions, a national-level competition featuring 122 teams across speech and debate events. Our students made elimination rounds in every major category: Speech, Congress, Policy Debate, Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Public Forum Debate, and Worlds Debate. Even more impressively, ModernBrain advanced at least one entry into the top eight in every category and earned 1

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