Adair-Casey/Guthrie Center High School has been chosen from the best in the state for this year’s Large Group Speech All-State Festival.

After the state contest February 2nd, ACGC’s group mime and one-act play entries were nominated to perform. Their one act, titled “Surviving Lunch,” and mime performance titled “Robbers, Rubies, and the Plan that Went… Right?” are one of eight and one of 20 acts, respectively, from across the state performing at the Iowa State Center this Saturday. Senior Sara Pauley shares the reaction of getting the nomination, “Pretty much we found out and the whole entire hallway heard us scream, and we cried, screamed and everything. It was just so exciting and unreal.”

ACGC Speech Coach Kelsey Moran comments on this year’s large group speech participants, “I think the bar has been set at ACGC High School. We were 52 members strong this season and we have the crossover from the athletes, the kids that do band and choir, the kids that are in every other student organization. The quiet ones that you just know there’s something in there and you see them walking down the hallway and you say, ‘Hey, you’re going to do large group speech.’ And you drag them into your room and next thing you know they’re going to All-State, right?”

“Surviving Lunch” will be performed at 12:50 p.m. at Fisher Theater and “Robbers, Rubies, and the Plan that Went… Right?” will be performed at 3:10 p.m. at Scheman Building Saturday in Ames.