Jane Logan, a 10th grade student from Branford, CT is one of 12 students chosen to represent the United States at the World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championship being held this March in Brisbane, Australia. She will join students from Choate Rosemary Hall, Deerfield Academy, Hotchkiss, Kingswood-Oxford, Phillips Academy Andover, Roxbury Latin School, St. Paul’s School and the Winsor School. Logan was selected to join the team following a public speaking tournament held at Kingswood-Oxford in West Hartford, CT on January 29, 2012.

At the tournament, Logan ’14 received second place for her after-dinner speech and finished third overall out of 47 speakers. The Stoneleigh-Burnham School team, consisting of Logan, Maraina W. ’15 of Madison, CT, Caroline L. ’14 of Amherst, MA and Mary P. ’13 of Deerfield, MA finished first out of eleven schools.

Logan has been actively involved in public speaking and performing both at Stoneleigh-Burnham School in Greenfield, MA and at Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, CT. Last year she lit up the stage as the lead “Countess Aurelia” in Stoneleigh-Burnham School’s production of The Madwoman of Chaillot and she is sure to impress again this year as “The Fly” in the School’s production of Happy End by Bertolt Brecht on February 26 and 27.

During the summer of 2011, Logan joined Long Wharf Theater’s “Shake-It-Up Shakespeare Youth Ensemble” and performed in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and in Threads of a Spider Web, a world premiere play written by Long Wharf Theater’s Director of Education. Logan is slated to perform with the ensemble in A Midsummer Night’s Dream scheduled for Summer 2012.

The World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championship is an annual event that brings together high school students from across the globe to compete in an English language debating and public speaking event. During the five day event, students compete in four categories including debate, impromptu speaking, persuasive or after dinner speaking and interpretive reading.