Archive for the 'policy debate' Category
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 | 1 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 [...]
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 [...]
Sep
16
Mars News of Interest
September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Check out this article about NASA’S new super rocket that may lead humans to Mars by the 2030s. This certainly has implications for DKC’s congress and policy debaters.
Aug
23
Mars Affirmative Demonstration Debate
August 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Check out the link below to see the 2011-12 demonstration debate. The affirmative side is advocating going to Mars while the negative says we should focus on problems here on Earth. The first video below is first in series. To see the entire playlist click here.
