Novice/JV Argument Introduction
Dr. Michael Hester will introduce students to the criminal justice reform topic and the arguments in the NDCA novice packet.
PF Coach Topic Lecture and Resource Review
Sign up here. PF outreach support with Taylor Wofford (yep, he’s back to help us with this) will be available to coaches Thursdays from 5:30-7pm starting this week (September 17th). During this time, we will discuss the league topic, important PF skills, and model debate coaching methods. Coaches may bring 2 students with them […]
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September 23rd Criminal Justice Reform/NDCA Novice Packet Topic Discussion
Dr. Michael Hester, Director of Debate at the University of West Georgia, will provide introductory instruction on the Policy criminal justice reform debate topic from 6:30pm-8:30pm on September 23rd. Please email info@debate.nyc for the username and password.
September 24 PF Training Session #2
Join Paul Glenn for our second PF debate training. The training is for coaches and novice students who are going to compete with the school resource officers topic. Email info@debate.nyc […]
NYCUDL PF Coach Training Session #2
Please join us for PF Coach Training Session #2. 5:30-6:30pm.
Beginner and Novice Policy Debate Opening Instructional Meeting
Registration link On Thursday, September 24th @ 6:30 pm we will kick-off our Policy debate preparations for our novice students. The meeting will last until 8pm. We will be discussing the basics of the criminal justice reform topic and starting instruction on one of our core files that will be used in our Beginner division. […]
NYCUDL Tabroom.com Training with Brian Manuel
We are offering tabroom.com training by Brian Manuel, famed NSDA tabroom.com consultant. Brian will help get everyone running and fix anyone's issues with with their tabroom.com account. Please register to receive the link.
Topic Jeopardy Night
7-8pm Thursday, October 8th. We will have topic Jeopardies on the PF topics (Medicare, SROs) and the Parli topics. Please register here.
October 10 Middle School Tournament
Registration Public Forum Beginner and Novice Topic Resolved: Schools should remove school resource officers JV/Open Topic Resolved: The United States federal government should enact the Medicare-For-All Act of 2019 There will also be an option for JV/Open students to select a division that uses the School Resource Officers topic. Parliamentary Debate Topics to be announced
October 24 High School Tournament
Registration Public Forum Novice Topic Resolved: Schools should remove school resource officers JV/Open Topic Resolved: The United States federal government should enact the Medicare-For-All Act of 2019 Policy Resolved: The United States federal government should enact substantial criminal justice reform in the United States in one or more of the following: forensic science, policing, sentencing.