Plano ISD Students Excel at UIL State Speech Meet
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Plano ISD students earned outstanding results, including two state championships, at the UIL State Speech Meet, held May 17-19 at the University of Texas in Austin. Students from Plano West Senior High School, Plano Senior High School and Plano East Senior High School earned state placements across persuasive speaking, prose interpretation and informative speaking events.
Plano East Senior High School
Tarwat Chowdhury - First Place and State Champion in Informative Speaking
Plano Senior High School
Riya Chhaya - First Place and State Champion in Persuasive Speaking
Plano West Senior High School
Anika Cherukur - Third Place in Prose Interpretation
Varshini Arun - Fourth Place in Persuasive Speaking
Plano ISD congratulates these students and their coaches for representing the district with excellence at one of Texas’s top academic competitions.