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MIDDLE SCHOOL DEBATE TOURNAMENT #2 RESULTS!

 
This week we celebrate #GivingTuesday - a global day of giving, dedicated to giving back.  For today only you can vote to support the NYCUDL by clicking here or https://givkwik.com/nyc.  Anyone can vote! And all month you can support our Indiegogo campaign to bring debate to another 10 schools in NYC over the next month by clicking here! 

We hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving.  And we have so much to be thankful for! This week we celebrate the incredible achievements of our middle school debaters. Over 300 students attended our Middle School Debate Conference #2! A fantastic video about the public forum debate tournament produced by Alisa Selman, click here! Over the next two weeks we will have four different debate tournaments at The Anderson and Computer School, Berkeley Carroll, the Institute for Collaborative Education, and Ridge High School.  Several of our debate teams were featured in the New York Times!  Several of our high school debaters will have an upcoming debate with the New York Times as well!  We have partnered up with Intelligence Squared for adult and student debates on their monthly topics and over 40 of our students and teachers are invited to their debates each month featuring the top subject experts from across the world!  Bank of America and Beveridge and Diamond will be hosting Debate Nights for our public forum debaters next month!  And the list goes on and on! Thank you everyone for your support to provide the most rigorous academic opportunities for our students!

And we need your help!  Our goal is to bring debate to 10 new schools by the end of the month.  So please don't forget to vote for the NYCUDL at https://givkwik.com/nyc, and you can also support our campaign to bring academic debate to 10 new schools this month by clicking here!  Finally, we always need judges at our tournaments. Below is our December tournament dates, so please sign up to judge! 

December 6th - Elementary & Parliamentary Debates - Computer/Anderson School. Click here!

December 6th - Middle School Public Forum & Policy Debates - The Berkeley Carroll School.  Click here! 

December 13th - High School Public Forum and Policy Debate - Institute of Collaborative Education.  Click here!

Thank you so much everyone! 
Sincerely, 

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NEW YORK CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL TOURNAMENT #2
11/8/14

TOURNAMENT RESULTS

A huge shout outs for our Middle School Conference #2!  Thank you to ACORN Community High School and One World Middle School for hosting.  Thank you to all the schools, teachers, parents, students, volunteers and staff that made this tournament possible.

School Sweepstakes Awards (Public Forum & Policy Debate)

1st Place - Institute for Collaborative Education 

2nd Place - KIPP Academy

3rd Place - Hunters Point Community School

4th Place - Frederick Douglas Academy VIII

5th Place - Berkeley Carroll

6th Place - MS 297 Hawtree Creek Middle School

7th Place - KAPPA VI Eagles

8th Place - Cornerstone Academy for Social Action

9th Place - IS 302 Rafael Cordero y Molina

10th Place - PS 278

 

School Sweepstakes Awards (Parliamentary Debate)

1st Place - Anderson School

2nd Place - PS 161

3rd Place - Salk School

4th Place - Hunter

5th Place - Success Academy Harlem East

6th Place - Berkeley Carroll

7th Place - South Orangetown

8th Place - IS 230 Magnet School for Civics/Community

9th Place - Computer School

10th Place - One World

 

Advanced Public Forum Debate Speaker Awards

1st Place - Daniel Fernandez (Institute for Collaborative Education)

2nd Place - James Harrison (Institute for Collaborative Education)

3rd Place - Genesis Logan (Frederick Douglas academy)

4th Place - Josie Ingall (Institute for Collaborative Education)

5th Place - Emily Hur (Institute for Collaborative Education)

6th Place - Aayusha Duwadi (Hunters Point)

7th Place - Zayaan Shariff (Institute for Collaborative Education)

8th Place - Stefan Walzer-Goldfeld (Institute for Collaborative Education)

9th Place - Sophie Levit (Hunters Point)

10th Place - Gerald Jeter (Frederick Douglas Academy)

 

Beginner Public Forum Debate Speaker Awards

1st Place - Danya-Leigh Hudson (MS 297 - Hawtree Creek Middle School)

2nd Place - June McBarron (Berkeley Carrol)

3rd Place - Aaliyah Ball (Cornerstone Academy for Social Action)

4th Place - Arbaz peters (IS 302 Rafael Cordero y Molina)

5th Place - Cairo Rivera (Frederick Douglas Academy VIII)

6th Place - Claire Buchanan (Institute for Collaborative Education)

7th Place - Liberty Lehr (Institute for Collaborative Education)

8th Place - Eli Piccone (Berkeley Carroll)

9th Place - Zola Gray (Institute for Collaborative Education)

10th Place - Justin Ali (MS 297)

 

Advanced Public Forum Debate Team Awards

1st Place - Emily Hur & Josie Ingall (Institute for Collaborative Education)

2nd Place - Jules Walzer-Goldfeld & Daniel Fernandez (Institute for Collaborative Education)

3rd Place - Zayaan Shariff & Stefan Walzer-Goldfeld (Institute for Collaborative Education)

4th Place - Katrice Ramirez & Genesis Logan (Frederick Douglas Academy)

5th Place Sulaiman Khan & Gerald Jeter (Frederick Douglas Academy)

6th Place - Zoja Misut & Angelina Araya (Hunters Point)

7th Place - Michael Rosenbaum & James Harrisoin (instgitute for Collaborative Education)

8th Place - IUanah Bantay & Aayusha Duwadi (Hunters Point)

9th Place - Destiny Romaine & Cyan Mumford (KIPP - AMP)

10th Place - Julia Bejan & Sophie Levit (Hunters Point)

 

Policy Debate Team Awards

1st Place - Lisette McShane & Dakota Champagne (Berkeley Carroll)

2nd Place - Madison Roberts & Jasmyne Roberts (NYC Debate Club)

3rd Place - Kalanie Best & Saul Vargas (KIPP - AMP)

4th Place - Sydney Frazier & Dash Advincula (NYC Debate Club)

5th Place - Spencer Elliot & Joelle Garcia (NYC Debate Club)

6th Place - Davon Collins & Travell Francis (KIPP)

7th Place - Mira Mehta & Genesis Bussey (NYC Debate Club)

8th Place - Oriana Van Den Handel & Chen Yang (NYC Debate Club)

9th Place - Elliot Seol & Emma Yang (NYC Debate Club)

10th Place - Mia Chang & Cara Chang (NYC Debate Club)

 

Beginners Public Forum Debate Team Awards

1st Place - Liberty Lehr & Clarie Buchanan  (Institute for Collaborative Education)

2nd Place - June McBarron & Maija Fiedelholtz (Berkeley Carroll)

3rd Place - Danya-Leigh Hudson & Alyssa Yamraj (MS 297)

4th Place - Eli Piccone & Zach Tegtmeier (Berkeley Carroll)

5th Place - Elizabeth Krekoukis & Liam Dussek (Hunters Point)

6th Place - Aya Ismail & Jennfier Sherpa (Hunters Point)

7th Place - Prescilla Narain & Gregorio Cruz (KAPPA VI)

8th Place - Kaya Middleton & Zola Gray (Institute for Collaborative Education)

9th Place - Oluwaseu Olatunbosun & Elise Slaughter (KAPPA VI Eagles)

10th Place - Cairo Rivera & Christina Deochand (Frederick Douglas Academy)

 

Policy Debate Speaker Awards

1st Place - Dash Advincula (NYC Debate Club)

2nd Place - Lisette McShane (Berkeley Carrol)

3rd Place - Dakota Champagne (Berkeley Carroll)

4th Place - Joelle Garcia (NYC Debate Club)

5th Place - Spencer Elliot (NYC Debate Club)

6th Place - Oriana Van Den Handel (NYC Debate Club)

7th Place - Mira Mehta (NYC Debate Club)

8th Place - Eliot Seol (NYC Debate Club)

9th Place - Davon Collins (KIPP)

10th Place - Sydney Frazier (NYC Debate Club)

 

Advanced Parliamentary Debate Speaker Awards

1st Place - Daniel Brown (Anderson School) 

2nd Place - Michael Ning (Hunter)

3rd Place - Feiry Guaba (PS 161)

4th Place - Rajendra Singh (PS 161)

5th Place - Felix Roz (Hunter)

6th Place - Zachary Canale (Salk School)

7th Place - Mirabel Sandler (Hunter)

8th Place - Joshua Hochstat (Salk School)

9th Place - Mac O'Hara (Berkeley Carroll)

10th Place - Britni Canale (Anderson School)

 

Beginner Parliamentary Debate Speaker Awards

1st Place - Amy Lu (Hunter)

2nd Place - Hannah Abrams (Hunter)

3rd Place - Madeline Scottie (Achievement First)

4th Place - Leo Greenberg (Hunter)

5th Place - Baker Kolvenbach (Salk School)

6th Place - Hailey Comito (South Orange)

7th Place - Mikayla Medine (Computer School)

8th Place - Mia Moreno (PS 161)

9th Place - Branden Williams (Success Academy Harlem East)

10th Place - Jordan Burt (Success Academy Harlem East)

11th Place - Angela Sukhdeo (PS 232)

12th Place - Sanaa Chakour (PS 232)

 

Beginner Parliamentary Debate Top Team Awards

1st Place - Hannah Abrams, Amy Lu, Yuanchen Liu (Hunter)

2nd Place - Kayla Douglas, Autumn Swepson, Emma Sarr (Success Academy East)

3rd Place - Nancy Xu, Eric Xu, Caitlyn King (Anderson)

4th Place - Rory Fayne, Pratham Rawat, Vivian Fang (Anderson)

5th Place - Matthew Censullo, Muhammad Asghar, Keegan Soosaippillai (IS 230)

6th Place - Theo Green and Andrew Eastwick (Salk School)

7th Place - Aryan Sharma and Ela Gulsen (Anderson)

8th Place - Lark LePage and Ella Cook (Salk School)

9th Place - Baker Kolvenbach, Andrew Grinzayd, Salem Eissa-Kader

10th Place - Cassidy Allen, Angela Sukhdeo, Sanaa Chakour 

 

Advanced Parliamentary Debate Top Team Awards

1st Place - Il Kyu, Tali Natter, Daniel Brown (Anderson School)

2nd Place - Rajendra Singh, Jalen Guichardo, Feiry Guaba (PS 161)

3rd Place - Katia Kovrizhkin, Brian Lu, Michael Ning (Hunter)

4th Place - Luis Benitez, Katherine Rosas, Allan Rivas (PS 161)

5th Place - Ernest Rosario, Herbert Espinal, Syu Star Caballero (PS 161)

6th Place - Zachary Canale, Henry Pomerance, Adam Neville (Salk School)

7th Place - Teddy Tawil, Nate Kruger, Felix Roz (Hunter)

8th Place - Sam Markoe, Kevin Huang, Ivan Jacob (South Orangetown)

9th Place - Emily Foy, Roman Hall, Andrew Conkey (Hunter)

10th Place - Christy Hwang, Zoe Woolrich, Emily Levitz (Salk School)

 
DEBATE NIGHTS!
Empowering NYC youth to achieve academic excellence through academic debate.





BEVERIDGE & DIAMOND DEBATE INVITATIONAL

Beveridge & Diamond

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

Bank of America

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. 
PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE NIGHT SERIES WITH INTELLIGENCE SQUARED

IQ2

Introducing Parliamentary Debate Nights! Intelligence Squared (IQ2) and the New York City Urban Debate League have teamed up for an incredible debate program for NYC youth! Starting in December one of our middle school parliamentary debate topics will be the Intelligence Squared Topic of the month! This provides incredible opportunities for NYC debaters to watch and participate in debates by experts on the topic, access primary source materials, judge and vote on debates, and so much more! Thank you to Intelligence Squared for such an incredible opportunity!

Intelligence Squared Debates! 

January 15 (Thursday)
February 11 (Wednesday)
March 11 (Wednesday)
March 31 (Tuesday)
April 15 (Wednesday)
May 13 (Wednesday
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NEW YORK CITY'S MOST RIGOROUS ACADEMIC PROGRAM - EVERY DAY, EVERY WEEKEND, EVERY SUMMER - YEAR ROUND.
NYC High School Debate Calendar
High School

Upcoming High School Tournament

Date
12/13/14

Location
Institute for Collaborative Education

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: For-profit prisons in the United States should be banned.

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.  

Middle School

Upcoming Middle School Tournament

Date
12/6/14

Locations
Parliamentary & Elementary School Debate Tournament: Anderson School and Computer School

Public Forum Debate/Policy Debate Tournament: Berkeley Carroll 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: For-profit prisons in the United States should be banned.

Parliamentary Debate Topics
1.  This House will legalize assisted suicide.
2.  This House believes charter schools do more harm than good.
3.  This House believes it is unethical to eat meat.

Judge Sign Up Forms

Public Forum/Policy Debate Tournament Judge Sign Up Form

Parliamentary/Elementary School Tournament Judge Sign Up Form

About the Middle School Division

The New York City Middle School Debate League is the largest 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!
Elementary

Upcoming Elementary School Tournament

Date
12/6/14

Locations
Anderson School and Computer School

Debate Topic

It it is unethical to eat meat.

 

Judge Sign Up Form

https://nycdebateleague.wufoo.com/forms/december-6th-parliamentary-elementary-debate/


 

About the Elementary School Division
The New York City Urban Debate League founded the first Elementary School Debate League in the nation and the first Elementary School Debate Championships! Click here for the NYC Elementary School Debate League Tournament Calendar!

White House 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:

December 13th
Ridge High School Debate Invitational
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
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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! 

December 6th Public Forum/Policy Tournament Judge Sign Up Form. 

December 6th Parliamentary/Elementary Tournament Judge Sign Up Form. 

December 13th High School Tournament Judge Sign Up Form.  
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. 
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!  
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Elementary
Middle School
High School
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. 
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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. 
STEP #2: SCHEDULE A 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!


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