At the New York State Forensic League 2026 Grand Championship, Stuyvesant was named the Overall Number One Team in New York State — an honor recognizing excellence across every speech and debate category.
This is what Annual Appeal dollars look like on the ground. Parent giving helped cover the season of tournament registration fees, judging fees, and coaching fees – the expenses that stand between a talented student and the room where they compete. None of it is covered by the DOE budget.
The achievement belongs to the students, and to Dr. Seung Yu and the administration, the Stuyvesant High School Parents' Association, the Stuyvesant Alumni Association, Ms. Dina Ingram, Ms. Julie Sheinman, our coaches, chaperones, and the parent volunteer judges who gave countless hours to our students and to the wider speech and debate community.
Sweepstakes Awards (presented to the top five schools in New York State in each category)
• Public Forum Debate — Champion
• Speech — The Sister Mary Raimonde Award, Champion
• Lincoln-Douglas Debate — 2nd Place
• Student Congress — 3rd Place
State Finalists
• Varsity Public Forum Debate — Lander Bovenzi (’27) & Adrien Devery-Michaelson (’27), Champions
• Intermediate Public Forum Debate — Zachary Massim (’28) & Alexandra (Sasha) Silakov (’28), 2nd
• Duo Interpretation — Micah Beirne (’27) & Mariya Markova (’27), Champions · Amanda Greenberg (’26) & Sofia Lawrence (’26), 3rd · Audrey Hilger (’26) & Ada Gordon (’26), 5th
• Program Oral Interpretation — Milan Gittens (’26), Champion · Olivia Cisse (’26), 2nd · Anna Schaible (’28), 4th
• Original Oratory — Amanda Greenberg (’26), Champion · Zoe Yoon (’28), 5th
• Humorous Interpretation — Jaydon Mei (’27), 3rd · Henry Santos Hendricks (’26), 4th · Sofia Lawrence (’26), 5th
• JV Oral Interpretation — Anna Schaible (’28), 2nd · Claire Stansberry (’28), 4th
• Varsity Oral Interpretation — Jaydon Mei (’27), 2nd
• Varsity Extemporaneous Speaking — Myles Vuong (’26), 4th · Elina Siu (’27), 5th
• Student Congress — Louis Oh-Aronson (’26), 9th · Ellis Thompson (’26), 10th · Lyla Storm (’27), 12th
Speech & Debate is one of dozens of programs the Parents’ Association supports. All year, Donations at Work will feature them one by one — because this is what parent giving actually buys.
