All Akita Senior High School Oratorical Contest 2016
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| Details | |
|---|---|
| Date | 29 August, 2016 |
| Location | Katagami, Personnel Training Center |
| No. of participants | 65 |
| Speech winner | |
| Title | We Are the Future |
| Student | Yuki Harata |
| Gender | M |
| Grade | 2 |
| School | Akita Minami |
| ALT | |
| JTE | |
| Recitation winner | |
| Title | See You in the Morning |
| Student | Aya Tozawa |
| Gender | F |
| Grade | 1 |
| School | Seirei |
| ALT | |
| JTE | |
| ← 2015 | 2017 → |
The 68th annual senior high school speech contest (officially known as the 68th All Akita Senior High School Oratorical Contest) was held on August 29th at the Personnel Training Center at the Prefectural Education Center in Katagami.
Program
| 9:30-10:00 | Reception | |
| 10:00-10:20 | Opening Ceremony | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Speeches I | Recitations I |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00-14:30 | Speeches II | Recitations II |
| 14:30-15:10 | Judging | |
| 15:10-15:30 | Awards | |
| 15:30-15:40 | Closing ceremony | |
Results
The top 2 students in the speech contest will advance to the All Tohoku Contest.
There is no subsequent contest for the top recitation students.
Speeches
Judges
- Ms. Aoi Sekiya (関屋 亜生以 先生) - Akita Board of Education
- Mr. Keith Ikoma - Akita Technical High School
- Mr. Kei Lam - Akita Meitokukan High School
| # | High school | Name | Year | Recitation | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yuri | Sayuki Sato | 2 | What Is "Happiness" for You? | |
| 2 | Yuzawa Shohoku | Ami Sato | 2 | Mutual Understanding through Expressing Opinions | |
| 3 | Honjo | Uta Takano | 2 | Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway | |
| 4 | Yuri | Kano Kudo | 2 | Do You Know a Soul in Words? | |
| 5 | Noshiro Shoyo | Yuri Kudo | 1 | Respecting Differences | |
| 6 | Akita Kita | Airi Inamura | 1 | The Way My Father Lived | |
| 7 | Akita Kita | Miku Hasebe | 1 | Be Prepared for Serendipity | |
| 8 | Yuzawa Shohoku | Miu Fujiwara | 2 | Bullying Based on Cultural Differences | |
| 9 | Yuzawa | Chianti Sato | 1 | The Future Artificial Intelligence Will Create | |
| 10 | Yokote | Ayaha Takahashi | 2 | Melody Is My Broom, Harmony Is Our Spell | |
| 11 | Nishime | Yuta Ishikawa | 2 | What We Should Do in the Future | |
| 12 | Omagari | Hinata Ito | 1 | The Difference a Piece of Chocolate Can Make | |
| 13 | Yokote | Yosuke Kodama | 2 | My Hero | |
| 14 | Seirei | Ai Shinagawa | 1 | Connecting to the World | |
| 15 | Kokusai Jōhō | Taichi Nemoto | 2 | Balance of Development | |
| 16 | Yokote | Sayaka Takahashi | 2 | Don't Let Them Take Our Place | |
| 17 | Yuzawa | Rinka Ito | 1 | To Revitalize Akita | |
| 18 | Akita Kita | Serena Otomo | 1 | Help Me! | |
| 19 | Yuri | Haruna Kato | 2 | To Save the Precious Life | |
| 20 | Seirei | Sayaka Kamiya | 2 | Let's Be Litter Free | |
| 21 | Yuzawa | Kumi Sato | 1 | Are You Addicted to Games | |
| 22 | Yokote Seiryo | Rekka Ogawa | 2 | Helping Refugees | |
| 23 | Akita Minami | Runa Ito | 2 | Be Thankful | |
| 24 | Omagari | Yuna Nishinomiya | 1 | To Live Peacefully | 3 |
| 25 | Seirei | Momo Harata | 2 | Power to Change | |
| 26 | Kokusai Jōhō | Suzune Hatakeyama | 1 | My Hometown | |
| 27 | Akita | Ryohei Narita | 1 | Learning about the Past? | 2 |
| 28 | Kokusai Jōhō | Ryoka Kawakami | 2 | Taking Action | |
| 29 | Nishime | Ririka Saito | 1 | Think for the Bright Future | |
| 30 | Akita Minami | Yui Hasebe | 1 | Dear Me | |
| 31 | Akita Minami | Yuki Harata | 2 | We Are the Future | 1 |
Recitations
Judges
- Mr. Michael Aubrey - Araya High School
- Mr. Alex Dao - Akita Chuo High School
| # | High school | Name | Year | Recitation | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kakunodate | Yukino Asari | 1 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | |
| 2 | Yuri | Nanako Sato | 2 | Steve Jobs' Speech | |
| 3 | Ugo | Asuka Sato | 2 | A Day of Moral Awakening | |
| 4 | Yuzawa | Mai Sasaki | 1 | A Letter to a Silent Brother | |
| 5 | Noshiro Shoyo | Kanae Igawa | 1 | The Story That We All Must Tell - Obama's Speech in Hiroshima - | |
| 6 | Yuzawa Shohoku | Kaori Ishiwata | 1 | Anne of Green Gables - A Great Teacher | |
| 7 | Akita Minami | Mizuka Ishii | 2 | Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish | |
| 8 | Ugo | Momoe Anbai | 2 | Praising a Black and a White Hero | |
| 9 | Akita Minami | Yuho Sato | 3 | Malala Yousafzai's Nobel Speech | |
| 10 | Ōdate Homei | Ayane Takahashi | 1 | Gulliver's Travels | |
| 11 | Kokusai Joho | Tamako Mabuchi | 1 | President Obama's Speech in Hiroshima | |
| 12 | Akita Hokuyō | Nozomi Ito | 1 | Excerpts from Malala Yousafzai's Address at United Nations Youth Assembly | |
| 13 | Nishime | Sakura Domon | 2 | The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination by J.K. Rowling | |
| 14 | Seirei | Aya Kodama | 1 | The Golden Buddha | 2 |
| 15 | Akita | Tsubaki Hayasaka | 1 | Anne of Green Gables | |
| 16 | Akita Nishi | Kakeru Miura | 1 | Puppies for Sale | |
| 17 | Kokugakukan | Ayu Kondo | 1 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | |
| 18 | Akita Kita | Miku Suzuki | 1 | Shin's Tricycle | |
| 19 | Ōdate Homei | Nohana Nyui | 2 | The Phantom of the Opera | |
| 20 | Akita Kita | Chiari Iida | 1 | HeForShe | |
| 21 | Omagari | Natsumi Sasaki | 2 | Little Red Riding Hood | 3 |
| 22 | Akita Hokuyō | Ryunosuke Iwaya | 1 | Excerpts from Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address | |
| 23 | Yokote Seiryo | Taichi Yoshida | 1 | Malala Yousafzai's Nobel Peace Prize Speech | |
| 24 | Yuzawa | Wakana Tanifuji | 1 | Is Death the End of Everything | |
| 25 | Yuzawa Shohoku | Reena Yamawaki | 1 | Obama's Speech in Hiroshima | |
| 26 | Omagari | Nao Taguchi | 2 | Rapunzel | |
| 27 | Yuri | Mizuki Aiba | 2 | President Obama's Speech | |
| 28 | Kosaka | Yukina Kameda | 1 | Hair Spray | |
| 29 | Seirei | Aya Tozawa | 1 | See You in the Morning | 1 |
| 30 | Akita Nishi | Shii Sugimoto | 2 | The Birth of iPhone - Steve Jobs Story | |
| 31 | Ōdate Keiō | Seina Sato | 1 | Playing by Ear | |
| 32 | Kakunodate | Hina Sato | 1 | Taking a Chance on You | |
| 33 | Nishime | Shiho Komatsu | 3 | Human Happiness and the Environment by Jose Mujica | |
| 34 | Kanaashi | Eri Sasaki | 1 | Easy Japanese |
