What is Forensics competition?
The following answer was provided by Rolland Petrello of Moorpark College: “Most people have only heard the word “forensics” associated with coroners or with scientists who work in police labs. When we call our speech team activities by that term, it’s natural that confusion arises. In fact, Rory Golden (a competitor at Miami University in Ohio) actually convinced an older couple at a roadside stop where his team was gassing the vans that he was a part of a team that participated in autopsy competitions. “Actually, the word “forensics” comes from ancient Greece where the term was applied to speeches made to convince a group of people who would make a judgment based on the arguments and evidence presented in the speech. This definition of “speaking for judgment” still applies in the world today. Hence coroners or police specialists do tests or postmortems, reporting the results to a judge in a court of law — and our speech team members speak before speech experts (go with me on this on
