Micky Horstman, senior, qualified for the IHSA Speech Individual Events State Final meet, after a first place tie with his poetry reading titled “Punchline,” and a third place finish in prose reading, with his piece titled “A Very, Very, Bad Thing,” on Saturday, Feb. 9 at the IHSA Individual Events Sectional at Downers Grove South High School. His pieces exposed the realities that people in LGBTQ communities often face.