Speech Fest Program Order
Please use program list below as a guide to the order of presenters.
Each speech is approximately three minutes long. Five minutes has been allotted per speech to
allow time for the judges to make notes.
7th Grade – 8:25-9:15 a.m.
Kabir Gulati – What Makes a Baseball Player Great, Branch Rickey
Mostafa Mamoun – Mark Twain on Stage Fright
Joshua Samulak – Patrick Henry: Speech to the Second Virginia Convention
Praveen Kumar – Pres. Roosevelt Requests from Congress a Declaration of War Against Japan
Paul Abou Haidar – Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat, Winston Churchill
Hadi Tajour – The Spirit of Liberty, Judge Learned Hand
Saleh Daoud – Ain’t I a Woman?, Sojourner Truth
Samuel Hessler – The Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Gorenc – Oration Against Catiline, Marcus Tullius Cicero
Justin Osei – General Eisenhower Issues His “Order of the Day”
8th Grade – 9:30-11 a.m.
Terek Nutka – John F. Kennedy: We Choose to Go to the Moon
Alex Day – General Eisenhower’s “Order of the Day” Speech
Karim Khalid – John F. Kennedy, “Ask Not What Your Country”
Alex Massier – Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
Isabella Issa – Lucy Stone: Disappointment Is the Lot of Women
Erhan Ali – Muhammad Ali “I Am the Greatest” Speech
Haadia Janjua – “The Quality of Mercy” from “The Merchant of Venice” by Shakespeare
Naya Alssous – Matthew McConaughey, 2014 Oscar Acceptance Speech
Mira Kabbara – Martin Luther King’s Speech Eulogizing Four Innocent Girls Killed by KKK
Dharma Nautiyal – Bernie Sanders, Democratic Socialism Speech
Connor Stanton – Elie Wiesel Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Nadia Ibrahim – Yusra Mardini UN General Assembly Speech
Stella Connelly – Cardinal Wolsey from “Henry VIII,” Act III, Scene ii
Zuha Jaffar – Mrs. D.H. Bishop Offers Harrowing Eyewitness Account on the RMS Titanic
Shruthi Ravichandran – Obama’s Farewell Address
Rishav Roy – Elie Wiesel Millennium Series Speech
Sophia Vlastaris – Nora Ephron 1996 Commencement Address at Wellesley
Jane Nilson – Cassius’s Persuasion of Brutus, Monologue from Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”