The main office will serve as our headquarters and will be open at 7:00 am to start answering all your questions. Please check in at the office at your arrival and bring any drops and/or substitutes to the office when you arrive.
The office can also help you store any coach’s personal belongings/valuable items that you do not want to store in the gym.
The high school gym will serve as speech team headquarters for all students and coaches. Ratings will be posted here as well as outside the main office.
All contest centers will begin promptly at 8:00 am and should conclude before 4:30 pm. Check out the schedule tab on this website for more information. Reminder: be early to your performance time and be sure to tell your parents the centers may run ahead of schedule. We would hate for them to miss a performance, but the show must go on as time allows. Make sure to notify your parents and spectators of your school code, so they can follow along with the schedule.
Our office staff will NOT be providing school codes to anyone.
Complete contest programs will be available for purchase at the audience entrance doors for $2.
Programs will NOT be provided for coaches or students.
If there are problems or mistakes with the schedule,
please email contest manager Josh Sparrgrove at jsparrgrove@forestcity.k12.ia.us .
(Please email and refrain from leaving voicemails. Answering a quick email is much easier than keeping up on phone calls.)
All special requests were to be submitted to Stacy Hansen prior to scheduling. Distance from the contest site will be taken into consideration, but please be respectful of the schedule, especially if your school has numerous entries and category conflicts.
Please remember a ballot for each performance.
Copies of ballots will be available in the office for $1 per sheet if you happen to forget yours.
Remind your students that judges will be giving oral comments at district contest at the end of their performance.
They should also not to speak to judges at any point during the contest day about their performance.
At the conclusion of your contest day once all of your ratings have been POSTED, we will distribute your comment sheets to you. Please wait until the end of the day to pick up comment sheets after all ratings are posted. If you wish to leave before your ratings are posted, you must leave a heavily stamped self-addressed envelope in the office before you leave.
Throughout the day, coaches should be with their students enjoying performances and most importantly supervising them and helping keep the hallways quiet. Only music players used for contest entries should be brought to contest and played when warming up or in performance use. Remember that we are all part of the IHSSA Family. Let's have a wonderful speech day!!!
PARENT REMINDERS:
Admission of a suggested $5.00 donation for people kindergarten age or older and can be donated at each entrance. Enter through the main doors into the high school. All other doors will be locked during the contest day.
Programs will also be available at each entrance for $2 a piece.
It is important for you to know your school code before you arrive at the contest site, as our office staff will NOT be allowed to share that information with any spectators.
Reminder: all photography and/or video of performances– without the permission of the IHSSA STATE OFFICE– is strictly prohibited.
All cell phones and any other electronic devices should be turned off upon arrival at the contest.
INTERNET PASSWORDS WILL NOT BE PROVIDED DURING THE CONTEST DAY.
Spectators should arrive at least 30 minutes prior, if not more, to any competition. The rooms could run ahead of schedule and cannot wait for spectators. We would hate for you to miss a performance, so please be early! The contest day will not stall to wait for parents.