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Whiz Kid of the Week: Yinka Akintujoye

This week's Whiz Kid won first place in the "Poetry" category in a recent speech competition.

Name: Yinka Akintujoye
School: Simley High School
Age: 15
Nominator: James Eich
Nominator's E-mail: eichj@invergrove.k12.mn.us

Accomplishments:  Yinka Akintujoye won first place in the Poetry category of the speech competition held at Bloomington Jefferson High School on March 5.

Key to Awesomeness:  Yinka, a junior at Simley, selected a piece of poetry and delivered her speech in front of a judge and six competitors from other metro area schools. Speech participants compete in three regular rounds, with each speech lasts approximately 6-10 minutes.

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In the end, Yinka prevailed, receiving percentage scores of 100, 99 and 99 for each respective round. Yinka hopes to make it to the state speech tournament in mid-April. The section competition is at 2 p.m. on April 8 at Burnsville High School.

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