WESTBOROUGH – Ananya Vel, a sophomore at Westborough High School, has won this year’s Westborough Lions Club Youth Speech Contest.
The topic was “Environmental Crisis: Fact or Fiction?”
Fourteen students from the high school competed on Nov. 29 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel in Westborough. Each speech was 5-8 minutes in length.
Three independent judges scored the speeches in three major categories: delivery, effectiveness and text. Each speech could earn a maximum of 100 points. The student with the most first-place finishes, as deemed by the judges, won the contest. If there had been a tie, a series of tiebreak rules would have been invoked to determine the winner.
As part of the statewide contest encompassing Lions Clubs across the commonwealth, Vel goes on to compete in the District 33A Lions, Region 1, Youth Speech Contest in January.
She will compete against the winner and runner-up of the Zone 1 Contest clubs – Grafton, Mendon, Sutton and Uxbridge – and the Harvard Lions Club winner.
To learn more about the Westborough Lions Club, please visit westboroughlionsclub.org.
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