Baker School Student Wins Speak Up Contest

Tabitha Pang, an eighth-grader from Baker School, won first place in the Mountain View School District’s annual Speak Up Contest for students in sixth through eighth grades with a talk on abortion.

Students in the El Monte district gave three- to five-minute speeches and were judged on eye contact, emotion, pitch, articulation, clear ideas and use of vocabulary and grammar.

Cindy Huynh, a seventh-grader from Kranz School, placed second with a speech on homelessness. Tying for third place were Mary To, a seventh-grader from Baker, who spoke in Cantonese on racism, and Martha Banuelos, a seventh-grader from Kranz, who spoke in Spanish on pollution.