Thursday, October 8, 2015

No Practice Thursday, Oct 8th


Due to conferences being held at EHS, there is no debate practice on Thursday, October 8th.

(Varsity policy may make alternative arrangements - stay tuned for an email from Bob or Brett.)

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

MDTA Cup Points

Edina doing very well in the race for the Minnesota Debate Teacher's Association team-based award:

Parent-Judges Needed for Rosemount

Our very large debate team needs more judges this weekend at Rosemount. 

When we are short judges then we have the cut debaters from our roster for the weekend.  Typically we need 1 judge for every 2 or 4 debaters.

Judging is one of those things that once you do one or two times, it will make perfect sense.  And we can provide some training/training materials.  You would only be asked to judge novice debate, never JV or varsity.

If you would like to judge or know someone who does,  please contact Joe Schmitt at jschmitt@nilanjohnson.com


Saturday, October 3, 2015

Oct 10 @ Rosemount

Irish Invitational
Rosemount High School
3335 142nd St W, Rosemount, MN 55068
10 October 2015

Coaches
Andy Charrier
Tim Greenfield

Bus
Depart door #7 at 7AM
Return estimate 5:45PM

Notes
No flighting!
There are 5 prelim rounds, then break to finals for all divisions in all kinds of debate.

The following entries have been registered by Andy Charrier representing Edina High School.

Varsity L-D Debate
   Anand Mittal
   Arvind Veluvali
   Connie Chao
   Gloria Mi
   Jonah Rosenthal
   Kyle Nicholson
   Mabel Thomas
   Max Schleck
   Murray Friedberg
   Romi Lee

JV L-D Debate
   Joseph Annareddy
   Kanu Madhok
   Om Jahagirdar
   Rahil Modi [no bus]
   Sandra Chen
   Sujit Varadhan
   Uma Kumar-Montei

Novice L-D Debate
   Biren Katyal
   Jake Straub
   Lucca Figari
   Mark Kivimaki
   Mythili Iyer
   Nathan Annareddy
   Noel Hayward
   Prasoon Sinha
   Sabrina Talghader
   Saumya Mangalick
   Shrey Ramesh
   Tanner Jones

Varsity Public Forum Debate
   Adi Mittal - Natalie Curtin
   James Kuznecoff - Khalid Ishani
   David Ma - Richard Zhu

   Jenny Ma [observing or judging]

JV Public Forum Debate
   Owen Phernetton - Anjali Aralikar
   Gauri Madhok - Emily Fan
   Addie Cheong - Maggie Hogan
   Rachel Nierengarten - Maeve Swackhamer

Novice Public Forum Debate
   Theo Teske - Matthew Nissen
   Anya Gudorf - Chloe Maynor
   Jay Chochreck - Oscar O'Brien
   Jennifer Ai - Kendrew Chen
   Sophie Addinton - Caroline Machart

  

Schedule
7:30 am School opens to competitors
7:30 am - 8:30 am Registration (inside main entrance)
8:45 am Round 1 LD/PF (all divisions)
9:00 am - 11:30 am Congressional Debate Session 1
10:00 am  Round 2 LD/PF (all divisions)
11:00 am Round 3 LD/PF (all divisions)
Lunch (between congress sessions and between rounds 3 and 4 of LD/PF)
12:45 pm Round 4 LD/PF (all divisions)
1:00 pm - 3:30 pm Congressional Debate Session 2
2:00 pm Round 5 LD/PF (all divisions)
3:00 pm Semifinals LD/PF (all divisions)
4:00 pm Awards in Student Center

Thursday, October 1, 2015

November/December LD Topic


Resolved: In the United States criminal justice system, jury nullification ought to be used in the face of perceived injustice.


November Public Forum Topic

 

November topic: In response to the current crisis, a government should prioritize the humanitarian needs of refugees over its national interests.

Here is a very short overview of the topic.