Results: Congratulations to Isabelle Taft who placed 3rd in Extemporaneous Speaking, Maya Grandoit who placed 5th in Dramatic Interp, and Marius Jackson & Jahra Gholston who placed 6th in Duo Interpretation. A phenomenal effort by these Jesters! Congrats to all who attended… You did Grady HS proud! This is a very large national invitational tournament with schools from all over [...]

Jackson High School Tournament results for Grady HS: Zoe Hamilton and Sam Heller, Finalists, Varsity Policy Debate. Milton High School Tournament results for Grady HS: LD, Champion- Rachel Citrin; Public Forum, Semifinalists- Ellen Ericson and Riley Erickson, Isabelle Taft and Ben Simonds-Malamud, Co-Champions. Varsity Policy Debate, Semi-finalists- Ben Dean and Holden Choi. Prose/Poetry, Finalist, Qri Montague, 4th place- Jahra Gholston, 3rd [...]

Grady Speech and Debate Tournament 2012: Quest for the Dream from Ben Simonds-Malamud on Vimeo. Thank you to the Grady HS Community for a fantastic tournament! The first  Martin Luther King, Jr., tournament saw 122 community volunteers, 301 competitors and 50 Jesters and 18 student volunteers helped us to make this a weekend to remember. A special thank you to [...]

Happy New Year! The Jesters will be quite busy over the next few months. Here is the schedule for the Spring semester: January 6-8, Montgomery Bell Academy, Nashville, TN.  This tournament is by specific invitation from the tournament, and is hosted by the president of the National Forensic League, Billy Tate. Congrats to Holden Choi, Ben Dean and Isabelle Taft [...]

As we head to Winter Break, The Jesters still have a packed schedule! Over the next week, all Jesters will receive their judge recruitment forms for our tournament in January. This is the first time we have had our tournament in January, and we are very pleased to host schools from all over the South on the Martin Luther King, [...]