December 6th, 2019 was the second SCJFL Middle School Speech Tournament at Walter Reed Middle School.

Kudos was awarded 9 trophies out of the eight events they were entered in.

Kudos took 1st place in Program Oral Interpretation, 1st and 2nd place in Extemp, and 3rd and 4th place in Dramatic Interpretation. Full results below:

Program Oral Interpretation
Ryan Sieh – 1st Place

Dramatic Interpretation
Carolyn Wang – 3rd Place
Melody Cen – 4th Place

Impromptu
Lisa Peng – 6th Place
Evelyn Tsoi – 7th Place

Poetry
Justin Chen – 4th Place
Andy Zhou – 5th Place

Extemp
Austin Hong – 1st Place
Kevin Tsai – 2nd Place

SCJFL 1st Quarter Debate Tournament at East Los Angeles College (10/26)

Kudos had a powerful showing last Saturday (10/26) at East Los Angles College, First Quarter Debate Tournament held by SCJFL where nine middle schools participated.

The students showed remarkable determination to successfully complete a 14 and a half hour tournament and rank well doing it.

Nine of Kudos competitors were from the Irvine Public Forum Debate squad. Out of those nine, 4 students placed as part of the top 10 team, while 2 more received top 10 speaker awards.

Andy Chen and Claire Liu earned 4th place team honors with a 5-1 record and going undefeated in the elimination rounds. In their final round, they beat a reigning national champion in impromptu speaking. This was both Andy and Claire’s first tournament.

Sophia Dai and Melody Yu made it to the final round and earned 7th place team honors.
Sarah Chen and Annie Jiang’s performance earned them the 6th and 7th overall speaker awards.
Joy Sun and Seth Chang finished in the top half of the tournament as the 15th team overall.
Nancy Sun was not eligible for awards because she competed maverick (solo).

Public Forum squad from Temple City campus ride out with 2 teams (Kaitlyn & Suzie; Shirlyn & Madelyn) making it to outrounds with one team (Shirlyn & Madelyn) making it to finals in PF, with one student making it to finals in LD (Julieanne). Joleen Wong was the 8th overall speaking in PF, as well!

On the other hand, in Congress, Kudos students dominated last weekend, with every limited preparation student breaking in an event and most of the congress finalists, including the top Presiding Officer.

Many students were at their first tournament as members of the competition team and were very close to breaking.

14 of the 15 students in congress finals, including champion Bena Feng were from Kudos. First time congress competitors Tiffany Fu, Tim Cai, and Uma Shukla were all 1 point from finaling.

Special Shoutouts to Kerry Zhang who was the #1 seed in prelims, won best Presiding Officer, and took 10th in congress.

October 25th, 2019 was the first SCJFL Middle School Speech Tournament at Jefferson Middle School in San Gabriel, CA. Total participants 200 students from 8 schools.

Kudos took home trophies in six of the seven events they were entered in at The Wolpert-Gawron Invitational. Kudos took 2nd place in Duo Interpretation, 3rd place in Prose/Impromptu/Novice SPAR, as well as many others.

Carolyn Wang, Prose 3rd place

October 19, 2019 was the SCJFL Elementary Tournament at Roosevelt Elementary School in San Gabriel, CA. Kudos entered 13 of 166 students from 8 schools competing at the tournament. 5 students were awarded trophies as Kudos took 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place in Novice SPAR as well as winning 1st place in Duo Interpretation.

Duo Interpretation
Cynthia Chao & Claire Xuan – 1st Place

Novice SPAR
Jerry Zhang – 2nd Place
Isabella Ma – 3rd Place
Katherine Duan – 7th Place

Informative Speech
Michelle Zhang – 4th place

Good showing ~

Cynthia and Claire, you two did such a wonderful job !!!

Congrats to Katherine ~

Congrats to Jerry

Congrats to Isabella

Duo girls with Mr. Seymour

Kudos Group Photos

Kudos Group Dinner

Coach Evan Help Students Vocal Exercise

Christina-LD

Chloe and Ivan – PF

Ava and Helaine – PF

2019年五月11號位於San Gabriel 的Roosevelt 小學所舉辦的小學演講辯論比賽, 由Kudos 資深教練Mr. Ralph Seymour所帶領的Kudos天普校區小學進階班的同學全體參賽. 我們參賽22個項目共15 位獲獎, 比例高達六成八, 這將近七成的獲勝率, 代表Kudos 培養新秀不遺餘力, 也不愧南加演講辯論第一名校的稱謂!

這次比賽聲勢浩大, 共有七所學校, 273位同學報名. 光是史丹佛即席辯論這個項目就有60位參賽者, 即席演說也有35位參賽者, 比往年都多!

Kudos小學進階班的每位同學從3月底即在班上展開密集訓練, 而這次比賽的成績更是完全展現了孩子平時的學習成果, 每位同學的收穫都是滿載而歸 ~~

許多家長更是深切地感受到指導老師這兩個月的用心, 賽後紛紛打電話向學校致謝~ 雖然一整天下來比賽時間十分冗長, 而且比主辦單位預定的時間晚快兩小時才結束, 大家早已非常疲憊, 但家長們依然耐心等候結果出爐, 全程陪伴, 沒有人早退 !!　大會於晚間８點半頒布名次:　國會辯論 Sophia Ren獲得冠軍, 詩詞朗誦Andy Hou獲得亞軍, 雙人戲劇演說Pearl Hsieh 和 Faith Huang 獲得亞軍, 史丹佛即席辯論Pearl Hsieh獲得季軍, 即席演說 Isabella Ma一樣獲得季軍, 原創演繹則是 Michelle Zhang 及Michael Cheng 分獲第三、四名!!
詳情請看以下圖表及獲獎名單 ~

這次比賽經驗實在太特別了, 不只給孩子們帶來莫大的鼓舞與刺激的體驗, 更讓許多家長深信過去兩年的堅持與訓練是值得的!! Kudos創校10年以來, 堅持不走短線, 設計一年完整的基礎課給孩子札實的基礎鍛鍊與正確的價值觀, 培養勇於面對人生挑戰的勇氣, 利用演講與辯論為自己發聲, 因為在美國主流社會裡, 讓自己的意見與想法被聽見實在是太重要了 ~!!!

以下是Kudos這次比賽的花絮:

On 2019 April 27th Saturday, the final Middle school speech tournament of 2018-2019 academic year of SCJFL took place in Orange Coast college.

Out of 124 competitors, Kudos won 15 trophies !!! A lot of first timers not only advanced to semi final, some even got to final and took home plaques ~!!!

Not only speech team members attended this huge tournament, our level 1 and level 2 advanced class students from Temple City, Walnut and Irvine also joined.

With coach Ms. Nancy, Mrs. Myers and Mr. Feldman’s coaching, all our contestants had a great showing and a wonderful day of learning and experiences, below is the list of results.

This tournament also wrapped up this year’s speech training for every team member, we felt tremendously grateful for parents efforts and students’ hard works, it all paid off beautifully~!!

We can’t wait for next year’s training to start again, but until then we can finally take a nice break and enjoy our summer.

See you all in September!

2018-19學年度最後一次演講辯論聯盟所舉行的辯論比賽於3/31號舉行.

來自天普市, 核桃市與爾灣三校區的學生為本學年最後一次比賽最全力衝刺與表現!

大賽成績揭曉:
公共論壇名次如下:
2nd place: Tony Lu and Clinton Lau
4th place: Ellie Jiang and Sunny Sun
5th place: Ava Ye and Helaine Zhao

個人演說獎:
2nd Place: Ellie Jiang
3rd place: Ava Ye
4th place: Sunny Sun
5th place: Clinton Lau
6th place: Tony Lu
7th place: Helaine Zhao

國會辯論名次如下:
1st place: Ingrid Luo
2nd Place: Kerry Zhang
3rd place: Kalen Han
4th place: Andrew Wang
5th place: Ryan Xu
6th place: Madeline Ang
7th place: Grace Yang
8th place: Darren Kuo

讓我們為每位辛苦的家長們鼓掌, 沒有他們的辛勞就沒有每位學生的成長!!
也期許不管是新生或老生們, 繼續努力, 比賽一年下來所累積的養分全是為了來年更加成熟與茁壯!!
不要忘了每一回合, 每一個比賽中所獲得的寶貴經驗~ 這些可是千金都買不到的~~

March 2nd, 2019 was the SCJFL Elementary Tournament at Roosevelt Elementary School in San Gabriel, CA. A total of 217 students participated and Kudos had 21 Level II students there that experienced the unforgettable day.

After the drills in class practicing Impromptu Speech and Spontaneous Debate, both tough events especially reserved for Level II students, Kudos participants used this tournament as a chance to solidify their understanding of what they have already learned.

Two students from the Walnut branch got 3rd and 6th place in SPAR debate after advancing many rounds, this news brought great pride and joy to their coach and parents!

Michelle Pan – 3rd Place SPAR
Nathan Chen – 6th place SPAR

After the tournament, many parents said this event helped the students grow and mature beyond the classroom. Students and families may not all bring home a trophy, but they certainly were all grateful for having experienced it.

It was hard work walking in the cold and rain throughout the tournament weekend at Stanford University. But in the record-breaking sized Stanford tournament, Kudos students stood out, met the challenges head-on, and came out a lot wiser than before!

The coaches are very proud of each and every one of the ten Kudos debate team members who competed on the beautiful campus at Stanford. The results are fantastic.

For Public Forum members who were debating against more than two hundred and thirty teams from other schools also went against 10th- and 12th-graders, two teams broke into Triples resulting in the top 48!
For most of the Congress members, this is the first time they combat out of Southern California, all have been fearless, one student broke to finals and ended at 11th, among 115 competitors!

Parents who went with the team came together to help not only their own children but others’, too. In all, a wonderful experience!