Whiz Kids: Mock Trial Team

Whiz Kids: Mock Trial Team

School: Bensalem High School

Accomplishment: After beating Holy Ghost Prep in the District finals the Bensalem High School Mock Trial Team competed in the Regional competition.  Coaches Kristin Egan and Jamie Rosenburg are ecstatic to report that Bensalem placed first. They will compete in the State competition on March 30. 

Bensalem was one of the first Pennsylvania schools to compete in Mock Trial, which began over 23 years ago. It is a situational trial based on a real life case. Each school must have six participants filling the roles of lawyers, advocates and witnesses. In each trial, each school must have three lawyers and three witnesses to represent either the defense or the plaintiff.  Every participating school in the state receives the same case and the same information to use in order to prepare for the case.

Only twelve teams in the entire state compete at this level. 

The Bensalem High School team members are: Amelia Ali, Andrew Arcangeli, Samantha Begelman, Jon Flanagan, Shane Flanagan, Rosemary Geraghty, Sara Gormley, Kim Kaelin, Hanna Martin, Boris Moglevich, Alex Mottershead, Anish Shah, Stephen Sklarow and Alyssa Winsom.