Archive for the 'policy debate' Category
Feb
10
Mars Breakthrough
February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment
There are no hospitals in space. The closest E.R. is back on Earth, and astronauts can’t exactly jump in a cab to get there. So what happens if the sun burps out a massive blast of radiation while an astronaut is space-amblin’ by? The NASA Biocapsule—made of carbon nanotubes—will be able to “diagnose” and instantly [...]
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
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 [...]
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
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
28
DKC Season Off to Great Start at Wyandotte and Central
October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment
DEBATE-Kansas City’s high school program has stated this year with opening tournaments at Wyandotte High School and Central High School. The Wyandotte affair was a workshop where students had a chance to engage in practice debates against other students from their own team in a tournament like environment. Students debated two rounds and the top [...]
