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East Kilbride's Youth Speaks Out!

Last Wednesday and Thursday 8th and 9th November, pupils from the East Kilbride high schools came together for the annual East Kilbride Rotary Club Youth Speaks competition.

The Rotary Youth Speaks competition is a four stage national competition promoted by Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland and 39 pupils, representing Calderglen High, Duncanrig Secondary and St Andrews and St Brides High took part. The winners of the Club stage will now go forward to the District competition and hopefully further to the Regional event and eventually to the UK National finals

The East Kilbride Club first sponsored this competition in 2011 with 2 teams from Duncanrig Secondary School taking part.

The competition is split into two sections, Intermediate for pupils between 11 and 13 and Senior for pupils between 14 and 17 and was held in the lecture theatre of the East Kilbride Group Training Association.

Members of the East Kilbride Speakers Club provided the judges and timekeeper for both competitions.

7 teams took part in the Intermediate competition and 6 in the Senior, with the marking on both evenings being really close. After a number of recounts the Intermediate winners were declared as St Andrews & St Brides team 2, comprising Katie Nelson, Eloise McNulty and Naimh Greig with their topic of "Material Girl".

On the second evening the scoring was even closer but eventually St Andrews & St Brides team 4 of Amy Martin, Caitlin McPhillie and Neeve Brown were declared the winners. Their topic was "Selfie Obsessed"

Both the winning teams will now go forward to the Rotary District finals in February where we hope they will progress to the Regional final being held in Dundee in March 2018.