ROSWELL—The 2015 Archdiocesan Oratorical Speech finals were held Monday, May 4, at Blessed Trinity High School.

Isa Sucre, in the seventh grade at Christ the King School in Atlanta, won the first-place award May 4 at the 2015 Archdiocesan Oratorical Speech finals. She spoke about Angel Falls, in Venezuela. The contest is sponsored by the Modern Woodmen of America.

Students in the finals had to give speeches on this year’s topic of an interesting landmark.

The winner, Isa Sucre, a seventh-grader at Christ the King School in Atlanta, spoke about Angel Falls, in Venezuela.

Second-place winner Flora Ngo, from St. John the Evangelist School in Hapeville, spoke about the Parthenon in Greece. Gwen Conway, of St. Thomas More School in Decatur, spoke about the Dachau concentration camp. She received the third-place award.

Other finalists were James Brower, from St. John Neumann School in Lilburn, Anna Kalbas, from Our Lady of the Assumption School in Atlanta, and Kate Oman, from Holy Redeemer School in Johns Creek. To reach the finals, the six students won the contests in their respective schools and competed successfully in a semifinal round of 18. The contest was open to students in fifth through eighth grade.

Superintendent Dr. Diane Starkovich commended all the students for their hard work.

The speech contest is sponsored annually by the Modern Woodmen of America, a fraternal financial services organization. Thacher Emory, who served as a judge, represented the group, which has had a long relationship with archdiocesan schools.

The organization supplied the trophies given to all the finalists and the winning school.

Each of the 18 students participating in the semifinals was given a certificate. The students were judged on the organization of their material, their delivery and presentation, and the speech’s overall effectiveness. They gave a three- to five-minute speech, using no notes or props.

The judges for the final round were Emory, Kevin Callison and Danny Nungesser from the Modern Woodmen of America and Paula Gwynn Grant, director of communications for the Archdiocese of Atlanta.