2025 Austin HS Top Dawg MS Tournament

2025 — Houston, TX/US

Program Oral Interpretation

Abbreviation POI
Format Speech
Entry Fee $8.00
Overall Entry Limit 40
Entry 1 competitors per entry

Event Description:

We will follow the Texas Forensic Association (TFA) rules for Program Oral Interpretation.

  • Program of Oral Interpretation is a 10-minute event that comes from multiple sources of literature, including but not limited to plays, novels, short stories, news articles, poetry, and blogs.
  • It is an event that uses a small black binder that has the text inside.
  • Students are able to use the binder as a prop, creating visual representations of their environments and characters.
  • Students are creating a social argument by combining literature that has multiple perspectives.