As an Iowa High School Speech Association member-school, Columbus has found great success in Large Group and Individual Events Speech, having received annual nominations to All-State for eight consecutive years, building a tradition of excellence. Opportunities range from performance categories including Ensemble Acting, Group Improv, Solo Musical Theatre, Choral Reading, and Readers Theatre (among others) to oral interpretation categories such as Spontaneous Speaking, Original Oratory, After Dinner Speaking, Poetry, and Radio News, to name a few. The teams travels around Northeast Iowa for competitions over their winter season with All-State Festivals on the university campuses of Iowa State and Northern Iowa.
Fine Arts programs offered at CVCS include: