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Feb
1
All Eyes on DKC
February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment
DEBATE-Kansas City (DKC) has garnered considerable media attention in recent days. Tuesday’s public debate co-sponsored the Kansas City Star, Competing Futures: a debate over Kansas City Schools, had everyone from Mayor Sly James to National Public Radio’s Scott Simon tweeting about dynamic DKC debaters making compelling arguments. The event was attended by 175 guests that [...]
Jan
20
DKC Students Treated to Special Screening of Red Tails
January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment
On January 19th 150 DEBATE-Kansas City (DKC) students and their coaches received the red carpet treatment at a special screening of Red Tails as a service to urban youth who achieve academically through debate. AMC generously provided the tickets through collaboration with the Heart of America chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen. Red Tails chronicles the true story [...]
Jan
19
DKC and KC Star to Host: Competing Futures: a debate over KC schools
January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment
DEBATE-Kansas City (DKC) is proud to be co-sponsoring a public debate over the future of Kansas City, Mo. schools with the Kansas City Star on January 31st at 7:30 p.m. on the campus of UMKC. The debate will feature three DKC alumni each arguing for a different entity (current community board, mayor or state) to control Kansas [...]
Dec
14
First Leg of the DKC City Championship a Success!
December 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment
DEBATE-Kansas City held the high school policy debate portion of its annual City Championship December 3th, 2011 on the campus of UMKC. Teams from across the city gathered to debate about the United States space policy. This is the second year DKC has broken the Championship into two parts. The first wave is held exclusively [...]
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 [...]
Dec
1
Arrowhead Hosts Huge Middle School Weeknight Tournament
December 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment
On November 17th Arrowhead Middle School hosted one of the largest middle school tournaments in DEBATE-Kansas City’s (DKC) history. Just over 250 middle school students from across the city competed as part of DKC’s weeknight tournament series. The Foreign Language Academy (FLA) debate squad earned an impressive array of awards in both policy debate and [...]
Nov
28
DKC Debaters Do Battle at Patton Junior High
November 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment
The second leg of the DEBATE-Kansas City’s (DKC) weeknight tournament was held at November 8th at Patton Junior High on the grounds of Fort Leavenworth. To DKC’s knowledge this tournament represented a unique first: it was the first time an Urban Debate League tournament was held on a military post. Students from across the league [...]
Nov
4
DKC Middle School Tournament Season Blasts Off at Center
November 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Center Middle School hosted DKC’s first middle school debate tournament of the season. More than 200 students from 16 schools across Kansas City engaged in two rounds of policy debate and student congress. The competition was fierce, spirited and participants were excited for the season to finally begin. Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy (LATCA) continued [...]
Oct
26
Article: Urban experiences give debaters unique insight
October 26, 2011 | 1 Comment
Urban experiences give debaters unique insight By James S. TyreeThe Norman Transcript Oct. 26, 2011 NORMAN — Dominique Baker attended a high school in his native Kansas City that didn’t have much to brag about, save for one glimmering exception — a case with trophies won by the school’s debate team. Baker said his first thought [...]
May
12
DKC Awards Night
May 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment
DEBATE-Kansas City hosted its 12th annual Awards Night Celebration at the Kauffman Conference Center. The event was generously sponsored by the University of Missouri Kansas City. Students, coaches and volunteers from across the city gathered to celebrate a tremendous season of debate and academic achievement. The keynote speaker was Marcus Leach, who spoke of the transformative power of debate [...]
