Ozark Junior High hosted the Ozark Speech & Debate Tournament Feb. 29 with 10 schools and hundreds of entries. Overall, Ozark placed second with seventh grader Cammie Dykes bringing home a first-place win in the storytelling category. Congratulations to the following seventh and eighth grade students who advanced to finals:

• Max Hunt - Original Oratory
• Max Hunt and Adam Lupton - Improvised Duet Acting
• Adam Lupton - Second place in Informative Speaking
• Bradon Warren - Storytelling
• Eian McCracken and Kason Nelson - Improvised Duet Acting; Second place in Duo Interpretation
• Cammie Dykes - First place in Children's Storytelling
• Bailey Cushing - Radio Speaking
• Julia Mills - Second in Original Oratory
• Julia Mills and Ashlynn Campbell - Third in Duo Interp 
• Ashlynn Campbell - Poetry  
• Kyra Wheeler - Prose
• Paige Adams - Humorous Interpretation; Children's Storytelling
• Madi Beaman, Mikayla White, Allie Ames and Paige Adams - Second place in Lip Sync