This year’s school level of the Civic Oration competition featured eight St. Brigid students in grades 5-8. These talented individuals, selected by their classroom teachers, delivered speeches about people who overcame obstacles to achieve greatness.
Subjects of the speeches ranged from famous people such as Beethoven to personal friends and family members of the speakers. Two students will advance to the regional level. Marissa Page, grade 6, told the touching story of her older brother’s struggle with Tourette Syndrome. The overall winner was 7th-grader Robert Bossong. He wrote about a blind teenager who was the only known person to learn how to see using echolocation.
Marissa and Robert will move on to the regional level of the Civic Oration, which will be held at St. Dominic Academy after April vacation. Good luck!
