Welcome to Next Gen Speech and Debate Club
2023-24 Meetings in Parkville, Missouri every Tuesday from 3-5:30
Text Janine for the location at 314-791-4654 (email janine.wilkins@park.edu)
All the club meetings are free.
We are a Stoa Speech and Debate club.
Parents are required to attend, to help give feedback, run the meetings, and learn all about Speech and Debate. We request all families join Stoa, the national league (see below).
Junior Debate Resolution: Museums are better than zoos.
Senior Debate Resolutions:
Lincoln Douglas (value debate 1:1)
Resolution for 10/1/2023 – 1/31/2024 (2 more TBA)
Resolved: A free press ought to prioritize objectivity over advocacy.
Team Policy Debate (2:2)
Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially reform its energy policy.
(to see a listing of the speech events check the "Judging" Tab on this website)
To join Stoa go to: https://stoausa.org/events/membership-registration/ Family ==Registration on or before September 30th: $95.00 for families with at least one 12-18-year-old student competing at tournaments, regardless of the number of children. Early registration saves you $30.
Family Registration October 1st or later: $125.00 for families with at least one 12-18-year-old student competing at tournaments, regardless of the number of children.
Junior Registration: $35.00 for families with ONLY students 11 years old and younger competing at local tournaments. This registration is necessary for tournaments whose insurance requires that all competitors be Stoa members. This is only for families that do not have older students competing.
Individual coaching with Coach Adam is available by appointment for $30 per hour.
For more information or to join contact:
Janine.wilkins@Park.edu or Adam.wilkins@Park.edu.
Meeting info:
Club will be canceled if more than half the students are sick. Please text Janine if you are new and are planning to attend 314-791-4654.
Apologetics
Find the Apologetics Questions here:
(https://stoausa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Apologetics-Questions-2022-2023-1.pdf) Bring a 4x6 index card.
Next Gen Super Fight Debate Drill:
Each contestant draws 3 character cards and 3 attribute cards. They choose one of each to create their super hero! For the fight we'll call contestant 1 AFF, and contestant 2 NEG and they will debate on the "Resolved: I will win if we got into a fight on an island."
The format will be
AFF Constructive 1 minute 30 seconds
NEG cross examines AFF 1 minute
NEG Constructive 2 minutes
AFF cross examines NEG 1 minute
AFF Rebuttal 1 minute
NEG Rebuttal 1 minute
2 AFF Rebuttal (summary) 30 seconds.
Families: Practice this, especially using a timer to practice timing yourself.
Sample Characters: Ghandi, swarm of killer bees, girl scout, robot, kindergarten class, 8 mothers, Stephen Hawking, Crocodile Hunter, Velociraptor, Spongebob, Mountain Lion
Sample Attributes: 10 foot tall, can fly, shoots lightening, throws knives, spits marshmallows, can yell really loud, can become invisible, can jump 20 feet.
Feel free to be creative by making up your own characters and attributes and even your own situations.....maybe instead of winning a fight you could make arguments of who would make a better soldier or better politician or who would win a game of chess??
For more info on the real game rules see: (https://www.fgbradleys.com/rules/rules2/Superfight-rules.pdf)
Interesting videos:
Stoa Documentary:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXYLRZq5MhQ
Coach Adam in his senior year explaining that it's not only about the
competition:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRLvp621tbg&t=329s
(he's at 5:10)
Coach Janine sharing (didn't make the documentary cut:) :https://www.instagram.com/p/CSyzbqqNxDl/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
Speech training video for judges: https://stoausa.org/judge-training-video/
Judge's Perspective Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxhLxDvzh1E
Ziggy
Ziggy Debate Online: This is a priceless educational opportunity from the comfort of your own home! https://ziggyonlinedebate.com Adam competed with Ziggy in both Stoa and NCFCA and it really gave him an edge!