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JANUARY TOURNAMENT RESULTS!
 
This week we celebrate the first tournaments of the New Year!  We first thank the Mayor of New York City for kicking off the 2015 Debate Season by visiting our January 10th Tournament at Brooklyn Technical High School!  So many of our debaters are interested in careers in government, law, public service, and advocacy and so it was so inspiring for everyone to listen to the Mayor's remarks during our Opening Ceremony and have the opportunity to speak and take pictures with Mayor de Blasio after his presentation!  

We would also like to give a huge shout out to the NYC Department of Education for supporting debate in NYC schools. Click here for an inspiring video about the Middle School Quality Initiative Debate Tournament #2 and our partnership with the NYC Department of Education to bring debate to over 100 new schools. 

Finally, we would also like to give a huge shout out to all our 2014 supporters who donated in 2014 to make debate possible for thousands of NYC youth.  And it is never too late to donate!  Our goal is to double the number of New York City schools with debate teams from last year and we need your support to make this happen!  Click here to support our mission that every school should have a debate team and every student should have access to the best debate education opportunities. 

What better way to start 2015 off with 5 different debate tournaments! Thank you to everyone for making this possible!! 
Sincerely, 

THE NEW YORK CITY URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE
EMPOWERING NYC YOUTH TO ACHIEVE EXCELLENCE THROUGH ACADEMIC DEBATE.

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MIDDLE SCHOOL QUALITY INITIATIVE TOURNAMENT #2
1/10/15
RESULTS

School Sweepstakes Awards

1st Place - MS 45

2nd Place - Hunters Point Community Middle School

3rd Place - IS 109

4th Place - North Star Academy (MS 340)

5th Place - JHS 88

6th Place - MS 318

7th Place - MS 50

8th Place - Creston Academy

9th Place - Young Scholars Academy

10th Place - In-Tech Academy

 

Speaker Awards

1st Place - Caitlin Bost (Hunters Point)

2nd Place - Alexa Whyte (North Star Academy)

3rd Place - Syvanna Bay (MS 101)

4th Place - Sophie Levit (Hunters Point)

5th Place - L'Hussen Toure (MS 101)

6th Place - Ky-ell Jackson (North Star Academy)

7th Place - Keiry Silverio (MS 45)

8th Place - Aayusha Duwadi (Hunters Point)

9th Place - Enasha Davis (IS 109)

10th Place - Naomi Jordan (North Star Academy)

 

Top Team Awards

1st Place - Syvanna Bay and L'Hussen Toure (MS 101)

2nd Place - Amirah Kahn and Claudia Gopie (IS 109)

3rd Place - Leila Pena Giancoli and Elizabeth Krekoukis (Hunters Point)

4th Place - Caitlin Bost and Liam Dussek (Hunters Point)

5th Place - Sophie Levit and Aayusha Duwadi (Hunters Point)

6th Place - Royele Hinkson and Keiry Silverio (MS 45)

7th Place - Pamela Velecela and Zachary Garmers (Hunters Point)

8th Place - Allen Elena and Maricarmen Campos (Creston Academy)

9th Place - Terrance Austin and Keilah Holness (North Star Academy)

10th Place - Jared Diaz and Vanessa Noi (MS 45)



NYC High School Debate Tournament
NYC High School Debate Tournament
NEW YORK CITY HIGH SCHOOL TOURNAMENT #2
1/10/15 RESULTS



School Sweepstakes Awards
1st Place - Stuyvesant High School
2nd Place - Brooklyn Tech High School
3rd Place - Queens High School for the Sciences
4th Place - Bard High School
5th Place - Maspeth High School
6th Place - ACORN High School
7th Place - Benjamin Banneker High School
8th Place - Institute for Collaborative Education
9th Place - Achievement First
10th Place - All City Leadership Secondary School

Advanced Policy Debate Speaker Awards
1st Place - Xia Headley (Brooklyn Tech)
2nd Place - Zander Buswinka (Institute for Collaborative Education)
3rd Place - Sunny Sompali (Stuyvesant High School)
4th Place - Rachel Nadboy (Brooklyn Tech)
5th Place - Shreya Gupta (Brooklyn Tech)
6th Place - Neil Yang (Stuyvesant High School)
7th Place - Rashard Isaac (ACORN HS)
8th Place - Miana Vega (ACORN HS)
9th Place - Sam Xu (Stuyvesant High School)

Advanced Public Forum Debate Speaker Awards
1st Place - Daniel Fernandez (Institute for Collaborative Education)
2nd Place - Aleksandra Zura (Maspeth High School)
3rd Place - Mojique Tyler (Bard High School)
4th Place - Stefan Walzer-Goldfeld (Institute for Collaborative Education)
5th Place - Horia Negru (Maspeth high School)
6th Place - Valerie Tanzil (Maspeth High School)
7th Place - Kira Carleton (Bard High School)
8th Place - James Harrision (Institute for Collaborative Education)
9th Place - Jules Walzer-Goldfeld (Institute for Collaborative Education)
10th Place - Jordy Portugal (Maspeth High School)

Beginners Public Forum Debate Speaker Awards
1st Place - Denai Morgan (Benjamin Banneker)
2nd Place - Ruhana Amin (Bard High School)
3rd Place - Vandana Sooknanan (Benjamin Banneker)
4th Place - Tonie Greenridge (Benjamin Banneker)
5th Place - Alisa Delaj (Bard High School)
6th Place - Hanan Issa (Bard High School)
7th Place - Radwana Rinta (Bard High School)
8th Place - Shaheed Thabit (PS 278)
9th Place - Belmin Rama (PS 278)
10th Place - Jasmine Jones (PS 278)

Novice Policy Debate Speaker Awards
1st Place - Luola Chen (Stuyvesant High School)
2nd Place - Etamar Geu (Stuyvesant High School) 
3rd Place - Rhia Singh (Brooklyn Tech)
4th Place - Matteo Wong (Stuyvesant High School)
5th Place - Aren Tucker (Stuyvesant High School)
6th Place - Kezia Clarke (Brooklyn Tech)
7th Place - Shayan Ashraf (AGAPE)
8th Place - Jenny Han (Stuyvesant High School)
9th Place - David Doktorman (Stuyvesant High School)
10th Place - Shaumik Ashraf (AGAPE)

Novice Public Forum Debate Speaker Awards
1st Place - David Grant (STAR Academy)
2nd Place - Yassmine Hussein (William Cullen Bryant HS)
3rd Place - Matthew Ottomano (William Cullen Bryant HS)
4th Place - Siddique Baksh (STAR Academy)
5th Place - Fahad Karim (AGAPE)
6th Place - Rajiv Goswami (Queens HS)
7th Place - Faisal Karim (AGAPE)
8th Place - Sharaf Alladeen (Queens High School Sciences)
9th Place - Rasman Rayyan (Queens High School Sciences)
10th Place - Melissa Niles (Achievement First)

Advanced Policy Debate Team Awards
1st Place - Neil Yang and Sam Xu (Stuyvesant High School)
2nd Place - Rashard Isaac and Anas Abdul Malik (ACORN HS)
3rd Place - Xia Headley and Shreya Gupta (Brooklyn Tech)
4th Place - Zander Buswinka and Joya Hall (Institute for Collaborative Education)
5th Place - Sunny Sompali and William Yang (Stuyvesant High School)
6th Place - Britani Fraser and Miana Vega (ACORN High School)
7th Place - Rio Maier and Mariya Tasnim (Brooklyn Tech)
8th Place - Aisha Thermidor and Pakawat Pamornsut (Brooklyn Tech)
9th Place - Arnold Arnez and Rachel Nadboy (Brooklyn Tech)
10th Place - Siliva Nunez and Tonny Zambrano (All City Leadership)

Advanced Public Forum Debate Team Awards
1st Place - Stefan Walzer-Goldfeld and Daniel Fernandez (Institute for Collaborative Education)
2nd Place - Jordy Portugal and Horia Negru (Maspeth High School)
3rd Place - Valerie Tanzil and Aleksandra Zura (Maspeth High School)
4th Place - Kira Carleton and Mojique Tyler (Bard High School)
5th Place - James Harrision and Jules Walzer-Goldfeld (Institute for Collaborative Education)

Beginners Public Forum Debate Team Awards
1st Place - Denai Morgan (Benjamin Banneker)
2nd Place - Radwana Rinta and Ruhana Amin (Bard High School)
3rd Place - Tonie Greenridge and Vandana Sooknanan (Benjamin Banneker)
4th Place - Hanan Issa and Alisa Delaj (Bard High School)
5th Place - Deirdre Spaulding and Jasmine Jones (PS 278)

Novice Policy Debate Team Awards
1st Place - Tahseen Chowdhury and Matteo Wong (Stuyvesant HS)
2nd Place - David Doktorman and Isaac Segal (Stuyvesant HS)
3rd Place - Marta Pawluczuk and Etamar Geu  (Stuyvesant HS)
4th Place - Jenny Han and Luola Chen  (Stuyvesant HS)
5th Place -  Rhia Seingh and Sadia Ahmed (Brooklyn Tech)
6th Place - Samuel Sagawa and Harrison Mahler (Brooklyn Tech)
7th Place - Ved Patel and Aren Tucker  (Stuyvesant HS)
8th Place - Selina Zou and Chloe Lee  (Stuyvesant HS)
9th Place - Kezia Clarke and Austin Halper (Brooklyn Tech)
10th Place - David Liang and Jordan Chan (Stuyvesant HS)

Novice Public Forum Debate Team Awards
1st Place - Siddique Baksh and David Grant (STAR Academy)
2nd Place - Rasman Rayyan and Dana Ragoonanan (Queens HS Sciences)
3rd Place - Matthew Ottomano and Yassmine Hussein (William Cullen Bryant HS)
4th Place - Fahad Karim and Faisal Karim (AGAPE)
5th Place - Sharaf Alladeen and Tasfia Wahid (Queens Sciences)
6th Place - Maida Redzepagic and Ann Sangalang (Maspeth HS)
7th Place - Keyona Bellony and Joseph Bernard (Benjamin Banneker)
8th Place - Jabriya Hester and Djeneba Samake (Bronx Collaborative)
9th Place - Rajiv Goswami (Queens Sciences)
10th Place - Gabriel Hoshino (Bard High School)


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Empowering NYC youth to achieve academic excellence through academic debate.





BEVERIDGE & DIAMOND DEBATE INVITATIONAL
JANUARY 28TH!

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. 
MONTHLY INTELLIGENCE SQUARED DEBATE NIGHT!

FEBRUARY 11th!
Topic:
DECLINISTS BE DAMNED. BET ON AMERICA.

IQ2

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 February 11th and the topic is "Declinists be Damned: Bet on America."  Debaters include Chrystia Freeland (Member, Parliament of Canada & Journalist), Peter Zeihan, Geopolitical Strategist and author of the "Accidental Superpower," Joseph Joffe, Publisher-Editor of Die Zeit, and James Rickards, Economist, Investment Banker and Author of Currency Wars! 

Intelligence Squared Debate Nights!

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
High School

Upcoming High School Tournament

Date
2/21/15

Location
William Cullen Bryant 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: On balance, economic globalization benefits worldwide poverty reduction.
(138 schools and 457 students voted for the resolution. The winning resolution received 67% of the school vote and 59% of the student vote.)

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TBA!

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 Tournaments:

Dates

2/7/15
Public Forum Debate Tournament

Location: Hunters Point Community Middle School (Queens)

1/17/14
Parliamentary Debate Tournament: The Valentines Day Debate Invitational! 

Location: One World Middle School (Bronx)

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

February National Public Forum Debate Division (Beginners and Advanced Divisions - all schools)
Resolved: On balance, economic globalization benefits worldwide poverty reduction.

February NYCUDL- NYCDOE Public Forum Debate Division (One division, NYCDOE schools)
Resolved: On balance, immigration is beneficial to the United States economy.

Parliamentary Debate Topics
1. This House believes the Common Core does more harm than good.
2. This House believes that police officers should be required to wear body cameras.
3. (Intelligence Squared Community Topic) This House believes that America is on the decline.

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!
Elementary

Upcoming Elementary School Tournament

Date
2/14/15: The Valentines Day Invitational

Location
One World Middle School (Bronx)

Debate Topic
Resolution: School suspensions should be banned.

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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!

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:

January 17th - 19th
Lexington 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! 
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!  
MEETS EVERY SATURDAY!

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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