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http://www.atvtoday.co.uk/58759-sky1-to-host-teen-debating-tournament/ Sky1 to host teen debating tournament July 29, 2014  Sky1 has commissioned a new series which will see teens from across the country take part in a debating tournament. The Kings and Queens of Speech is a new eight-part series that will see children from across the UK take part in debate competition. The series will be teaming up with charity Debate Mate , a revolutionary educational charity that works with 200 schools nationwide and has helped over 4,000 disadvantaged young people to find their voice through debate. The aim through the debating tournament is to transform the teenagers into confident young adults. The winning teams from each school will then be brought together for the first time, competing head to head in a debating competition in front of a panel of judges. The finalists compete in a knockout tournament until one team are crowned the Kings & Queens of Speech 2014. Adam MacDonald, Director ...

http://chsaanow.com/2014-07-30/chsaa-mullen-speech-legend-frank-sferra-passes-away/ CHSAA and Mullen speech legend Frank Sferra passes away By Bert Borgmann Jul 30, 2014, 3:10 pm in FEATURED , SPEECH 1 Frank Sferra. For 57 years, Frank Sferra was a speech coach at Mullen High School . But the breadth of his impact in speech activities reached throughout Colorado and the nation. Sferra, 77, had long been recognized as the preeminent speech coach in the country by educators and speech/debate professionals. He passed away Wednesday morning after a long illness. “Frank was a passionate man who gave his life to his students. His impact on the Colorado speech community is immeasurable," CHSAA commissioner Paul Angelico said. "He is speech to Colorado’s high schools. We will miss him as a teacher and coach, but even more as a man of integrity and character, and as a friend." Sferra served 10 years as president of the National Forensics League (NFL) and spent nearly every year...

Kuala Lumpur (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) From Moustafa Elbadwihi: I'm writing to you with regards to the upcoming KLOC (Pre-Worlds) to be hosted in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. We would like to increase the participation of international teams at our tournament this year by reaching out to as many continents as possible. Unfortunately, one of the more difficult regions is the Americas and we thought who better to seek assistance from than yourself We hope you would be able to assist in spreading the word or guiding us on how we can reach debate societies/ unions in the Americas. Below is a summary of the tournament. The tournament will be held as follows: Date: 22nd-24th December 2014 Venue: APU@TPM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Registration Fee : MYR310 (With 3D2N Accommodation) For this year's edition of KLOC, we are working closely with the organisers of Malaysia Worlds to ensure the tournament if of the best possible calibre in order to better facilitate the tournament as a development ...

Links below, all videos on http://vimeo.com Lecture - WUDC - Deeper Arguments - Zheng Bo - BWDA 2014 43:59 from  Alfred Snider  / Added  23 minutes ago 0 Plays  /  0 Likes  /  0 Comments A lecture about creating deeper arguments, given by Zheng Bo of China. http://debateacademy.net/Debate_Academy/Beijing.html This video was shot and produced at the 2nd Beihang World Debate Academy,… + More details Lecture - WUDC - Note Taking for Debaters - Frank - BWDA 2014 42:42 from  Alfred Snider  / Added  4 hours ago 10 Plays  /  0 Likes  /  0 Comments A lecture on note taking for debaters given by Amanda Frank of Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. http://debateacademy.net/Debate_Academy/Beijing.html This video was shot and produced at the 2nd… + More details Lecture - WUDC - Points of Information (Basic) - Taylor - BWDA 2014 51:53 from  Alfred Snider  / Added  11 hours ago 1 Play  /  0 Likes  /...

With judge list. http://debate.uvm.edu/dcpdf/WSDC_CA_Newsletter_July_2014.pdf

SWAG sounds like a bad word, but it is not. It stands for "Stuff We All Get." We got a small preview of SWAG from the Thailand WSDC today and wanted to share it. Seen above, the polo shirt. Here is the bag everyone will get. Below is the organizing committee at their weekly meeting. More information at  http://www.thaiwsdc.au.edu/ Related articles WSDC 2014 - Concerns, Comments, Confusions, Confirmations and Certainties WSDC 2014 - Attending Teams Lecture - WSDC - Judging in WSDC Style - Creffield - WSDA 2014 Lecture - WSDC - Framing the Debate - Dobranic - WSDA 2014

Space  exploration  and development are going to be a very important part of our future, and probably sooner than we think. It would be advisable to begin debating issues surrounding these developments. The arguments in such debates will likely mix the practical with principle and finances, making a luxurious conversation about our human future. I was thinking about some topics and moved from the general and prior to later topics of interest and here is what I have: Earth should substantially increase the exploration and development of  outer space . Exploration and development of outer space should be conducted by commercial enterprises and not governments. Exploration and development of outer space should be conducted by international groups and not national governments. Exploration and development of outer space should be conducted by human beings whenever possible and not by robots alone. Planet Earth  should not look forward to contact with  extraterrestria...

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Sharmila Parmanand Accepts Faculty Position in USA at University of Vermont Globally renowned debate trainer and scholar Sharmila Parmanand from the Philippines is coming to America to teach and coach debate at the University of Vermont and serve as a trainer and coach with the Lawrence Debate Union. Lawrence Debate Union director Alfred Snider said, “We are very proud to announced that we have offered a faculty position, and it has been accepted, by perhaps the most celebrated debate trainer in the world. She has done it all and done it with style, and we are excited with what she can do with our program and our students. She follows in the path of amazing predecessors at Vermont, such as Stephen Boyle (Irish Times winner), Mary Nugent (famous English debate trainer from Cambridge) and James Hardy (from Cambridge who is the WUDC Masters Debate Champion and IDEA/HWS Round Robin winner).” Ms. Parmanand graduated cum laude from Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines and earned a...