Students of the ACS Athens Debate Club participated in the Deree Invitational that took place at Pierce College on May 20-21, 2022. ACS Athens was represented by 10 debaters and 5 teams and it was a weekend filled with excitement, critical thinking, logic, reasoning, learning, and lots of laughter!
Although a very close competition, our teams did not break into the semifinals. Arianna Pinna and Alex Andriopoulos were just 9 speaker points off of qualifying for the tournament’s Top 8, and several of our teams were in “breaking rooms” in the last round!
A huge congratulations to the dedicated members of the ACS Debate Club for learning and growing with us all year. Here’s to a great summer (Debate Camp anyone?) and we will meet again in the Fall for a brand new debate season!
Student Participants in Alphabetical Order:
- Alex Andriopoulos
- Ian Brown
- Emmanuel Epongo
- Evangelia Karagkou
- Iliana Lyssaios
- Kathleen Morris
- Ioanna Pantazis
- Sydney Pina
- Arianna Pinna
- Constantine Samarikas
Coaches:
Tommy Lynch, Amalia Zavacopoulou