Texas A&M Kingsville is hosting a Texas Forensics Association meet for high school students this weekend.
More than six high schools have signed up to participate in the TFA event the Art, Communications and Theatre Department is hosting.
“This is our first year doing it,” said Todd Lucas, Chair of the department.
“We currently don’t have a forensics team. So this is what we’re doing in place of that this year to at least still have opportunities for people to do things,” Lucas said.“This is being done at a high school level; this allows some of our students and advanced students to be judges.”
The TFA event offers many categories for high school students to participate in, including dramatic interpretation, duet acting, informative speaking and original oratory.
“Activities viewed as central to the organization’s function include debate, theatre, and competitive individual speaking events,” the TFA website said.
“The purpose of the Texas Forensic Association is to bring about more effective cooperation among the members of the speech and theatre arts profession in the discharge of their special responsibilities in forensic and theatre activities.”
The TFA meet is one of the last tournaments that will be held before the state meet March 5 to 7 in El Paso.
“If we make the 10 teams this could be a qualifying event for the state tournament. So if they place here it gives them points to then qualify for the state tournament,” Lucas said.
