Archive for the 'coaches' Category
Dec
7
Patton Tournament Results
December 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment
The second leg of the DEBATE-Kansas City’s (DKC) weeknight tournament was held at November 13th at Patton Junior High on the US Army military facility of Fort Leavenworth. For the second year in a row Patton Junior High made everyone at the tournament feel right at home with hospitality. Students from across the league met and [...]
Sep
14
DKC Director Commentary
September 14, 2012 | 1 Comment
A reflection on working for DEBATE-Kansas City by Director Gabe Cook I am both proud and fortunate to be entering my ninth year at DEBATE-Kansas City. Over the years I have done everything from tournament clean-up (unpleasant) to budgeting (even more unpleasant) to teaching debate as I visit classes and practices across the league. These visits [...]
Aug
27
A Legend Returns: Jane Rinehart Coaching Again in DKC
August 27, 2012 | 2 Comments
The first member of the DKC Coaches’ Hall of Fame, Jane Rinehart, will once again be educating young people in Kansas City. After spending two years teaching English and debate in Kosova, the former Central High coach agreed to a debate position at University Academy (UA). The return is a welcome match for both parties. [...]
Jan
17
New Policy Topic for 2012-13: Transportation Infrastructure
January 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment
The high school policy debate topic for 2012-13 will be: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its transportation infrastructure investment in the United States. Wikipedia (we do not advise formally citing Wikipedia) lists the following as transportation infrastructure; Transportation infrastructure Road and highway networks, including structures (bridges, tunnels, culverts, retaining walls), signage and markings, electrical systems (street lighting and traffic lights), edge [...]
Dec
14
Fall Power Rankings
December 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment
DKC is proud to release our fist set of Power Rankings for the 2011-2012 season. The current totals are based on all tournaments held to date. In policy debate the teams are ranked based on total number of wins with speaker points breaking ties. In student congress places are determined by combined point totals from [...]
Feb
8
Lee A Tolbert Community Academy Thriving
February 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy (LATCA) is in the midst of building a debate dynasty. In just their third year as members of DEBATE-Kansas City (DKC) LATCA has 45 debaters on team, a list of more students wanting to join and a growing trophy case. They are blessed to have strong administrative support, great parents and [...]
Jun
17
DEBATE-Kansas City on Walt Bodine Show
June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment
DEBATE-Kansas City’s Director, Gabe Cook, and Director of Debate at UMKC Matt Vega appeared with Tim Sheaff (Board member National Forensics League) on The Walt Bodine Show Wednesday to discuss debate in general and the National Forensics League’s (NFL) National Tournament being held in Kansas City. More than 5,000 students, coaches, and parents are in town [...]
Aug
12
The Kritik of Poverty Discourse
August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment
DEBATE-Kansas City is proud to release its first Kritik of the season: The Kitik of Poverty Discourse. You can find the entire file under the resources link and on blackboard. Below is a basic explanation of the argument. Have fun and enjoy!
Jun
29
Camp Lectures
June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment
DKC debaters its time to start working on next years topic! (Your competition is working!) Here is a link to a site that has some lectures from various camps across the country. To watch the videos you will have to create a planet debate account. No worries the site is free for a basic user [...]
