This news came into the Tribune:
Rebecca Evans, Dobson High senior, won the grand prize at the 20th annual Arizona Japanese Speech Contest, at the University of Advancing Technology. She won a round-trip plane ticket to Japan. Connor Sungino, Dobson junior, took second place in Category A (first-year level).
In the annual competition, high school and college Japanese language students write, memorize and present their own speeches to judges and an audience.
Next year’s contest will be at Dobson, the first time in the history of the contest that it will be conducted at a high school.
