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The Debate / Speech / Student Congress Teams:
With 5 national qualifiers, the debate team is looking toward two national competitions to round out the year. After making a wonderful showing at the State Debate Competition (see the last issue of the Blue Blaze), the teams traveled to the Catholic Forensic League Qualifying Competition where half the team qualified to go to Rochester, New York for CFL Nationals. Mae Tobin-Hochstadt qualified, placing first over all in Lincoln-Douglass Debate while Aaron Strong became an alternate. Paul Brunetti qualified for NCFL Student Congress and Johanna Mathieu became an alternate. Then both Faraneh Carnegie and Laura Damon qualified in separate speech events. Later at the National Forensic League Qualifying Competition Aaron Strong qualified in Lincoln-Douglass Debate and will travel to Portland, Oregon this spring to compete. In almost all events only 2 people in the entire state of Maine qualify to go to nationals!

Odyssey of the Mind (a.k.a. Destination Imagination)
This year LHS entered 3 different teams into the regional Destination Imagination Competition, an alternative to Odyssey of the Mind that the majority of the state's teams participated in. The Roller Coaster Team placed 1st in improvisation but 3rd overall in their competition missing 2nd place and a chance to qualify for states by less than 2 points of 400. However, the Music Team placed 2nd and went to states on April 1st where they placed 2nd overall.


Math Team
The last regular math meet of the year was held at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School on March 8th. At this meet, team and individual season awards were given out and Lewiston took home not only the 3rd place award in the large schools division but also 2 individual awards. Corey Potvin received the award of 4th place senior. Also, Andrew Morin took home the award of 4th place junior. On April 6th the Math Team traveled to the Cumberland County Civics Center to compete in the Maine State Math Meet with over 1000 other students from just about ever high school in Maine. The competition was fierce and the team did not take home any awards but they did score in the upper half of the competition.

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own infomercials. Each group presented their infomercial by the end of the day. Their products ranged from vodka to an evangelist's message.
 
Students wrote newspaper stories during the second meeting of Young Writer's. Each group wrote their own version of a news story, while experimenting with how to leave out information that we weren't given, just as in the real world. The first presenter this year was our own Doc Townsend, with his enjoyable activities such as the, "What would you do/not do for a million dollars?"  and "What common things have you never

done?" He also went over different writing styles and had students write a five part autobiographical piece.
 
A compilation of work from the participant of this year's Young Writer's will be made after the final session. This year's program has been an enjoyable experience. It's not just about getting out of school for the day or gorging yourself at the Bates cafeteria. So if you get a chance to sign up for next year, go for it. You'll get to talk to people in the writing profession and get a better idea of what they do, and you will also meet students from other schools and hear some of their work.