The following Mid-Prairie students competed at Mid-Prairie High School in an Iowa High School Speech Association District Individual Events Speech Contest on Saturday, February 27. Each event performed for an IHSSA certified judge at Mid-Prairie High School.
Every member of the Mid-Prairie Individual Events Speech Team earned a Division 1 rating for each of their events, and are advancing to State Individual Events Speech Contest on Saturday, March 13 at Mid-Prairie High School. Congratulations to following students for qualifying in one event each: Diego Ayala, Gavin Frascht, Isadora Goode, Jennifer Sanchez, and Avery Slaubaugh. Also, congratulations to those qualifying in two events: Haydon Bailey, Olivia Caskey, Avery Frede, Kyra Helmuth, Emily Marner, and Elizabeth Meader.

Diego Ayala	Spontaneous Speaking
Haydon Bailey	Reviewing: Star Wars: The Last Jedi - An Unbiased Review	Solo Acting: The Acupuncturist by John Patrick Shanley
Olivia Caskey	Solo Musical Theatre: 100 Easy Ways To Lose A Man by Joseph A Fields and Jerome Chodorov	Solo Acting: Mrs Micheal James by Olivia Caskey
Gavin Frascht	Spontaneous Speaking
Avery Frede	Solo Improvisation	Radio News Broadcasting
Isadora Goode	Interpretive Reading Prose: A New Adventure by Isadora Goode
Kyra Helmuth	Solo Musical Theatre: Alto's Lament by Marcy Heisler	Solo Acting: The Perfect Girlfriend by Kyra Helmuth
Emily Marner	Solo Musical Theatre: A Summer In Ohio by Jason Robert Brown	Solo Improvisation
Elizabeth Meader	Storytelling: The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen	Interpretive Reading Prose: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Jennifer Sanchez	Interpretive Reading Poetry: The Face In the Mirror by Catherine S. Liebenberg and I Am Who I Am by Tamara
Avery Slaubaugh	Interpretive Reading Prose: Jealous? I'm Not Jealous by Lyena Monis and Hi Brian By Brenna Allen

Speech Coaches at MPHS are Christine Meader and Lisa Helmuth, assisted by Meredith Caskey.