Activities Teams

Brian Schilling
Advisor

Debbie Fenlason
Advisor

The Duluth Debate team is for future lawyers, politicians, orators, and anyone who wants to be a part of a team that learns what it means to be a confident speaker and learns to make intelligent arguments to solve the most difficult issues in our day. Debate is a MSHSL team that competes on Saturdays (starting end of September).
 

Greg Jones
Advisor

Peter Froehlingsdorf
Advisor

Emily Parr
Advisor

East has a successful theater program that spans the year. We typiclly start the school year with a musical (auditions take place the spring before). Student actors, technicians, musicians, and creative staff come together to put on a polished performance. Watch for announcements to get involved. 

In late fall, we hold auditions for our competition one act. Groups of actors and technicians compete in January and February for a chance to compete in section finals and at the state one act festival.

We wrap up the school year with another show that takes the stage in late April or early May. This tends to be a non-musical show. 

Each of the three shows require an audition (for on stage roles) or an application for tech roles.  

Greg Jones
Advisor

Colleen Knettel
Advisor

We take several teams of five on the road to compete in a fast-paced quiz style competition. There are math and science questions, grammar questions, and history and geography questions. And so many questons in so many more categories. If you like trivia or a just great at high school, join us to see if Knowledge Bowl is fun to you. 

Christy Fisher
Advisor

East Math Team members practice working through challenging math problems not seen in the typical math class. There are 5 competitions that take place on a Monday after school in which team members take individual timed tests and a team test. The Duluth East team competes against other area schools and depending on results could advance to the State Math Competition in the twin cities in March.

Greg Jones
Advisor

Peter Froehlingsdorf
Advisor

Jace LeGarde
Advisor

On the Duluth East speech team, you'll compete with a talented group of students who work the season to hone their skills. Although most people think the speech team must have students speaking in front of large audiences every meet, but that's not true. A typical round at a speech meet has only a handful of students and one adult watching. If you're interested in working on your acting skills or writing skills or even discussion skills, we have a place for you on the team. Minnesota has thirteen different categories, and we'll help you find the right one for you. The team is a supportive and encouraging one. Join us. 

Speech meetings and practices start at the beginning of December and the competition season starts at the end of January and runs into the start of April.