NYC Debate League - Last Tournament of 2014

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THE GREAT DEBATERS NEWSLETTER! THE NEW YORK CITY DEBATE LEAGUE "Be Great! Be a Great Debater!" LAST TOURNAMENT OF 2014!  NYC HIGH SCHOOL DEBATE TOURNAMENT #2 RESULTS!   This week we celebrate our last Tournament of 2014!!!!  Yesterday, December 13th, we hosted our second high school tournament of the year with 87 high school debate teams, 156 debaters, and 76 debate judges! Shout outs to all high schools participating - All City Leadership, Benjamin Banneker, Bronx Collaborative Studies, Brooklyn Technical HS, Cornerstone Academy for Social Action, DeWitt Clinton, Health Professions, High School for Law, Advocacy and Community Justice, Institute for Collaborative Education, KIPP, Lakeland, Maspeth, Mott Hall Bronx, Queens HS for the Sciences, Science, Technology and Research, Staten Island Technical HS, and Success Academy HS! Another huge shout out to all the judges, teachers, coaches, staff and volunteers who made this tournament possible and all our 2014 tournaments possible!!!  And in a couple weeks we kick off the new year with our January 10th NYC High School Debate Tournament #3 at Brooklyn Tech High School!  If interested in judging click here!  And if your school does not have a debate program and would like to start one for the 2015 Debate Season, let us know! Thank you again for another inspiring weekend and see you soon at our next debate tournament!  Sincerely,  THE NEW YORK CITY URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE EMPOWERING NYC YOUTH TO ACHIEVE EXCELLENCE THROUGH ACADEMIC DEBATE. Email: nycudl@gmail.com Phone: 917-455-1079 Website: www.nycudl.org Blog: http://nycudl.blogspot.com Debate Camp Website: www.nycdebatecamp.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/nycudl Twitter: #nycdebateleague Be Great!  Be a Great Debater! Support Our City's Debate League! Click here to learn to donate!   NYC DEBATE WEEKLY NEWS Celebrating the incredible achievements  of New York City's Great Debaters every week! NEW YORK CITY HIGH SCHOOL TOURNAMENT #2 12/13/14 TOURNAMENT RESULTS! School Sweepstakes Awards 1st Place - Brooklyn Technical High School 2nd Place - Institute for Collaborative Education 3rd Place - Benjamin Banneker High School 4th Place - Staten Island Technical High School 5th Place - Queens High School for the Sciences 6th Place - Health Professions High School 7th Place - Success Academy High School 8th Place - KIPP - AMP 9th Place - Lakeland High School 10th Place - DeWitt Clinton High School Varsity Policy Debate Speaker Awards 1st Place - Chandani Shah (Lakeland HS) 2nd Place - Oliviia Cherry (Brooklyn Tech) 3rd Place - Alexa Weisberger (Brooklyn Tech) 4th Place - Grace Kwon (AGAPE Tenafly) 5th Place - Brandon Small (Brooklyn Tech) 6th Place - Anchal Kanoji (Lakeland) 7th Place - Iris Atherley (ACORN) 8th Place - Miana Vega (ACORN) 9th Place - Nicole Yapyakis (Institute for Collaborative Education) 10th Place - Adina Redzic (Brooklyn Tech) Junior Varsity Policy Debate Speaker Awards 1st Place - Karease Quashie (Brooklyn Tech) 2nd Place - Aminata Dieng (Brooklyn Tech) 3rd Place - Esther Tsvayg (Brooklyn Tech) 4th Place - Xia Headley (Brooklyn Tech) 5th Place - Ashley Yan (Brooklyn Tech) 6th Place - Chantelly Medina (All City Leadership) 7th Place - Rio Maier (Brooklyn Tech) 8th Place - Silvia Nunez (All City Leadership) 9th Place - Emily Xu (AGAPE Long Island) 10th Place - Mariya Tasnim (Brooklyn Tech) Novice Policy Debate Speaker Awards 1st Place - Rhia Singh (Brooklyn Tech) 2nd Place - Timothy Callery (Lakeland High) 3rd Place - Samuel Sagawa (Brooklyn Tech) 4th Place - harrison Mahler (Brooklyn Tech) 5th Place - Adel Ahmed (Queens High School) 6th Place - Mohammed Saleh (Queens High School) 7th Place - Shaumik Ashraf (AGAPE Long Island)  8th Place - Paulio Serodio (AGAPE Princeton) 9th Place - Ericka Caesar (ACORN) 10th Place - Sara Siyunova (Queens HS Science) Novice Public Forum Debate Speaker Awards 1st Place - James Harrison (Institute for Collaborative Education) 2nd Place - Stefan Walzer-Goldfeld (Institute for Collaborative Education) 3rd Place - Victoria Panata (Maspeth High School) 4th Place - Lexi Torres (Success Academy) 5th Place - Michael Sun (AGAPE Long Island) 6th Place - Leonela Tutasig (Maspeth HS) 7th Place - Sekou Cisse (Success Academy) 8th Place - Arielle Gallegos (Maspeth HS) 9th Place - Emily Hur (Institute for Collaborative Education) 10th Place - Josie Ingall (Institute for Collaborative Education)  Beginners Policy Debate Speaker Awards 1st Place - Jasmine Sinklair (DeWitt Clinton) 2nd Place - Dina Youssef (Health Professions) 3rd Place - Danielle Allen (DeWitt Clinton) 4th Place - Shannon Luke (DeWitt Clinton) 5th Place - Ashley Jainerine (DeWitt Clinton) 6th Place - Shumana Khatun (Health Professions) 7th Place - Serena Feliciano (DeWitt Clinton) 8th Place - Syed Alihsan (DeWitt Clinton) 9th Place - Daphna Ferti (Health Professions) 10th Place - Shaina Degrooot (Health Professions) Beginners Public Forum Debate Speaker Awards 1st Place - Atira Barber-Ellis (Benjamin Banneker) 2nd Place - Jsoeph Bernard (Benjamin Banneker) 3rd Place - Keyona Bellony (Benjamin Banneker) 4th Place - Sarah Alvira (Mott Hall Bronx) 5th Place - Joel Cruz (Mott Hall Bronx) 6th Place - Vandana Sooknanan (Benjamin Banneker) 7th Place - Mulan Burgess (Benjamin Banneker) 8th Place - Tonie Greenridge (Benjamin Banneker) 9th Place - Christopher Pagan (Mott Hall Bronx) 10th Place - Djenebe Samake (Bronx Collaborative) Varsity Policy Debate Team Awards 1st Place - Adina Redzic & Alexa Weisberger (Brooklyn Tech) 2nd Place - Anchal Kanoji & Chandani Shah (Lakeland HS) 3rd Place - Brandon Small & Olivia Cherry (Brooklyn Tech) 4th Place - Grace Kwon & Katherine Koh (AGAPE - Tenafly) 5th Place - Nicole Yapyakis & Tai Lambert (Institute for Collaborative Education) 6th Place - Miana Vega & Britani Fraser (ACORN HS) 7th Place - Zander Buswinka & Joya Hall (Institute for Collaborative Education) 8th Place - Kristen Rose & Larry Chen (Health Professions) 9th Place - Noah Trungold & Abishek Sane (Lakeland HS) 10th Place - Miah Cohall & Nicole Russo (Lakeland HS) Beginners Public Forum Debate Team Awards 1st Place - Keyona Bellony & Joseph Bernard (Benjamin Banneker) 2nd Place - Mulan Burgess & Vandana Sooknanan (Benjamin Banneker) 3rd Place - Joel Cruz & Christopher Pagan (Mott Hall Bronx) 4th Place - Sarah Alvira (Mot Hall Bronx) 5th Place - Tonie Greenridge & Atira Barber-Ellis (Benjamin Banneker HS) 6th Place - Kristel Ormeno & Jessica Tellez (HS for Law, Advocacy, Criminal Justice) 7th Place - Star McBain & Dene Morgan (Benjamin Banneker HS) 8th Place - Jabriya Hester & Dejenebe Samake (Bronx Collaborative HS) 9th Place - Paoly Peralta & Dauda Fadiga (Bronx Collaborative HS) Beginners Starters Packet Policy Debate Team Awards 1st Place - Jasmine Sinklair & Serena Feliciano (DeWitt Clinton) 2nd Place - Shannon Luke & Ashley Jainerine (DeWitt Clinton) 3rd Place - Syed Alihsan & Danielle Allen (DeWitt Clinton) 4th Place - Shumana Khatun & Dina Youssef (Health Professions) 5th Place - Daphna Fertil & Shaina Degroot (Health Professions) Junior Varsity Policy Debate Team Awards 1st Place - Karease Quashie & Esther Tsvayg (Brooklyn Tech) 2nd Place - Aminata Dieng & Xia Headley (Brooklyn Tech) 3rd Place - Rio Maier & Mariya Tasnim (Brooklyn Tech) 4th Place - Jia Pan & Wai Ho Zhang (Brooklyn Tech) 5th Place - Shreya Gupta & Ashley Yan (Brooklyn Tech) 6th Place - Destineee Casimiro & Chantelly Medina (All City Leadership Secondary School) 7th Place - Ava Zhang & Liz Wu (AGAPE Long Island) 8th Place - Brandon Gong & Emily Xu (AGAPE Long Island) 9th Place - Silvia Nunez (All City Leadership Secondary School) Novice Policy Debate Team Awards 1st Place - Samuel Sagawa & Harrison Mahler (Brooklyn Tech) 2nd Place - Sadia Ahmed & Rhia Singh (Brooklyn Tech) 3rd Place - Kathleen Deutsch & Shaumik Ashraf (Long Island) 4th Place - Sara Siyunova & Mohammed Saleh (Queens HS Science) 5th Place - Kadiatou Barry & Fariha Rahman (Brooklyn Tech) 6th Place - Timothy Callery & Anish Bharwani (Lakeland HS) 7th Place - Michelle Tong & Noah Kim (AGAPE Princeton) 8th Place - Stephon Carattini & Kalanie Best (KIPP AMP) 9th Place - Mitali Jahan & Sultana Bhuiyan (Health Professions HS) 10th Place - Paulio Serodio (AGAPE - Princeton) Novice Public Forum Debate Team Awards 1st Place - Victoria Panata & Arielle Gallegos (Maspeth HS) 2nd Place - Elyjah Pellew & Sekou Cisse (Success Academy) 3rd Place - Leonela Tutasig (Maspeth HS) 4th Place - James Harrison & Stefan Walzer-Foldfeld (Institute for Collaborative Education) 5th Place - Aida Bathily & Lexi Torres (Success Academy) 6th Place - Josie Ingall & Emily Hur (Instittue for Collaborative Education) 7th Place - Faisal Karim & Fahad Karim (AGAPE - Long Island) 8th Place - Elvin Migrov & Simon Shalmiyev (Staten Island Technical HS) 9th Place - Farzanna Hossain (NYC Debate Club) 10th Place - Michael Sun & Aric Zhuang (AGAPE - Long Island) Click here for full tournament results! DEBATE NIGHTS! Empowering NYC youth to achieve academic excellence through academic debate. BEVERIDGE & DIAMOND DEBATE INVITATIONAL JANUARY 28TH! Thank you to Beveridge & Diamond for hosting the Beveridge & Diamond Debate Invitational on January 28th for our top public forum debate teams!  Beveridge & Diamond, which specializes in environmental law, will also be sponsoring our first April Environmental Debate Month to celebrate Earth Day as well!  Thank you so much to Nadia Wagner and Paula Schauwecker and everyone at Beveridge & Diamond for making this possible! BANK OF AMERICA DEBATE INVITATIONAL Thank you to Bank of America for hosting our first Bank of America Debate Invitational in January for our top teams in public forum debate.  Thank you to Yaira Brito, Gretchen Garnecho, and Bank of America for making this possible!  And thank you for offering an inspirational evening for our debaters to not only debate but learn about careers in finance as well as personal financial education.  MONTHLY INTELLIGENCE SQUARED DEBATE NIGHT! JANUARY 15th! Topic: Amazon is the Reader's Friend Intelligence Squared (IQ2) and the New York City Urban Debate League have teamed up every month for an incredible Debate Night for NYC youth!  The next Debate Night is January 15th and the topic is "Amazon is the Reader's Friend."  Debaters include bestselling authors Scott Turow and Joe Konrath, Franklin Foer, former Editor of the New Republic, and Matthew Yglesias, Executive Editor of Vox. Join us on January 15th! Intelligence Squared Debate Nights! January 15 (Thursday) February 11 (Wednesday) March 11 (Wednesday) March 31 (Tuesday) April 15 (Wednesday) May 13 (Wednesday DEBATE TOURNAMENTS COMING UP! NEW YORK CITY'S MOST RIGOROUS ACADEMIC PROGRAM - EVERY DAY, EVERY WEEKEND, EVERY SUMMER - YEAR ROUND. NYC High School Debate Calendar Upcoming High School Tournament Date 1/10/14 Location Brooklyn Technical High School Policy Debate Topic Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its non-military exploration and/or development of the Earth's oceans. Public Forum Debate Topic Resolved: United Nations peacekeepers should have the power to engage in offensive operations. Judge Sign Up Form Click here to complete our judge sign up form!  About the High School Division The New York City High School Debate League is one of the most successful debate leagues in the nation. Our debaters have won city, state, regional and national championships.  Our debaters have reached the elimination rounds at every majority national debate tournament including Harvard University, Yale University, Georgetown University, Dartmouth University. Between 95% - 100% of our high school debaters graduate and are accepted to college - many receiving full or partial scholarships because of debate.   Click here for the NYC High School Debate Calendar! NYC Middle School Debate League Tournament Calendar Upcoming Middle School Tournaments: Dates 1/10/14 Parliamentary Tournament Location: TBA 1/17/14 Public Forum/Policy Tournament Location: TBA Policy Debate Topic Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its non-military exploration and/or development of the Earth's oceans. Public Forum Debate Topic Based on a nationwide vote, the 2015 January Public Forum topic is, Resolved: United Nations peacekeepers should have the power to engage in offensive operations.  A total of 255 schools and 245 students voted for the resolution. The winning resolution received 64% of the school vote and 81% percent of the student vote. Parliamentary Debate Topics 1. This House will decriminalize recreational drug use. 2. This House believes youth competitive sports do more harm than good. 3. (Intelligence Squared Debate Topic)  This House will allow genetically modified food. Judge Sign Up Forms TBA About the Middle School Division The New York City Middle School Debate League is the largest citywide middle school debate league in the country and features nearly every national debate style including Public Forum Debate, Parliamentary Debate, and Policy Debate.  Advanced middle school debaters can also participate in our high school league. Click here for the NYC Middle School Debate League Tournament Calendar! NYC Elementary School Debate Tournament Calendar Upcoming Elementary School Tournament Date 1/10/14 Location TBA Debate Topic Resolution: This House believes youth competitive sports do more harm than good. Judge Sign Up Form TBA About the Elementary School Division The New York City Urban Debate League founded one of the first Elementary School Debate Leagues in the nation and the first Elementary School Debate Championships! Click here for the NYC Elementary School Debate League Tournament Calendar! NYC Brown Rudnick Travel Team Debate Tournament Calendar The Brown Rudnick Travel Team provides regional and national travel opportunities to top debaters. Our Travel Team competes at every national circuit tournament on the East Coast including Harvard, Georgetown, Princeton, Yale and many others! Click here for the NYC Travel Debate Team Calendar!  Upcoming Tournament Date: January 17th - 19th Lexington High School Debate Invitational VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! SIGN UP TO BE A DEBATE JUDGE!  The New York City Debate League is one of the largest debate leagues in the nation. Over 1000 students and 100 schools participate each year.  All this is made possible by our judge volunteers who serve on a Saturday so that NYC youth can participate in debate. We need your help! Whether you have debate experience or never have done debate before - we need your help this year to bring debate to all NYC youth!  Email us at nycudl@gmail.com to judge or sign up on one of he judge forms below!  January 10th  High School Tournament Judge Sign Up Form.  Click here! SIGN UP TO BE A DEBATE MENTOR! Mentors help to bring debate to a school and make that debate program successful and sustainable. Mentors serve as a role model, friend and advisor to their debate mentee students.  And help their mentees not just in debate but college, career and beyond.  Click here to sign up! SIGN UP TO INTERN FOR THE NYC DEBATE LEAGUE!  Whether your skills and career interests are in debate, education, social media, photography, fundraising - we need your help to bring debate to every school in New York City.  Please contact us at nycudl@gmail.com if interested in interning for the debate league!  NEW YORK CITY DEBATE CLUB!   MEETS EVERY SATURDAY! NYC Elementary School Debate Club The NYC Debate League started one of the first elementary school debate leagues in the nation. Our Elementary Debate Club meets once a month at middle school and elementary tournaments for workshops and practice debates. Click here to learn more. NYC Middle School Debate Club The NYC Debate League is the largest middle school debate league in the nation. For students who do not have debate teams at their school or who would like additional practices, the NYC Middle School Debate Club meets nearly every Saturday and competes once a month at Middle School Debate Tournaments.  Click here to learn more. NYC High School Debate Club NYC high school debaters are among the top debaters in the country.  If you do not have a team at your school or if you would like additional practices, then join the NYC High School Debate Club! Click here to learn more. STARTING A DEBATE TEAM AT YOUR SCHOOL IN 3 STEPS! Our mission is that every school should have a debate team and every student should have access to the best debate education opportunities.  STEP #1: REGISTER YOUR SCHOOL! Elementary School & Middle School Membership Form High School Membership Form MS & PS Student Permission Slip http://www.tfaforms.com/348080 HS Student Permission Slip http://www.tfaforms.com/345757 Registration is open to all elementary, middle and high schools!  The NYC Debate League provides year round support - training, professional development, curriculum, workshops, outreach, debate nights, monthly tournaments which include student meals, and summer debate camps - anything and everything to support debate teams in NYC.  Click here for Elementary School & Middle School Membership Form High School Membership Form STEP #2: SCHEDULE A TRAINING SESSION! Click here to schedule a date for us to come visit your school for an introduction and training session!  The NYC Debate League staff is award winning and have coached local, regional and national debate champions.  We also have a huge network of volunteers, alumni, mentors, and college debaters to support your team. 99% of our teachers have no debate experience and so we provide any training and resources as needed to start and sustain a successful debate program!  Click here to make an appointment for us to visit your school!  STEP #3:  COME TO ONE OF OUR MONTHLY DEBATE TOURNAMENTS! Bring your debaters to one of our tournaments or workshops!  Nearly every weekend we host elementary school, middle school and high school debate tournaments, workshops and practices. Your debate team is more than welcome to come watch or compete at any of our tournaments. We also host workshops for new debaters at each tournament as well! High School Tournament Calendar Middle School Tournament Calendar Elementary School Tournament Calendar NYC Debate Club Information CLICK HERE TO DONATE TO SUPPORT OUR CITY'S GREAT DEBATERS!