Millard South High SchoolSquashfestival
14905 Q. St. Omaha, Nebraska 68137
(402) 715-8268, Fax (402) 715-6305
Millard South is proud to invite you and your students to our 3rd annual “Squashfestival” to be held October 29th, 2016. We plan to offer new novice debate students (including coaches and judges) the chance to sit in on workshops and also to be critiqued in practice rounds-all in one day! We hope to provide your team this unique opportunity for years to come.
This isn’t truly a tournament--as students will not be ranked, but they will receive rating points on their ballots (in speech events). They will get feedback on what they are doing and the chance to win a lovely red, white & blue ribbon for each superior rating that the judges give. Ribbons will also be awarded to the “winning” teams in each practice debate round.
In addition to providing work experience for your novice debaters, we will also need the services of your veteran team members to serve as judges. Seniors are great, we love Juniors (as long as they’ve been doing this for a while) and even Sophomores (if coaches think they have enough info to pass along). Millard South Debate is super excited to host our debate community!
Schedule (for all events except Policy Debate)
8:00-8:30 Registration
9:00 10:00 Work Sessions
10:15-11:15 Round 1
11:15-12:00 Lunch
12:00-1:00 Round 2
1:00 – 2:00 Round 3
2:00 – 3:00 Round 4
3:00 – 3:30 Q & A with presenters
3:15/3:30 ballots available to coaches (all events)Informal award ceremony to follow.
PolicySchedule
9:00-11:15 Round 1
11:15 – 12:00 Lunch
12:00 to 2:15 Round 2
2:15-3:00-Q & AInformal award ceremony to follow.
Registration will be held in the main hallway as you enter the building from the East (Main) entrance. We will have a homemade spread for coaches in the coaches’ lounge. Our meetings will be in the 100 wing (North end of the building). I’ll pass on information about bus parking & other assorted information as warranted to the schools who are coming.
After a short announcement right before 9:00 we’ll break into work sessions. Currently, we will offer sessions in the following events:
DEBATE EVENTS
Lincoln Douglas Debate (Payton Shudak, Colten White)
Public Forum Debate (AarronSchurevich)
Policy Debate (Shane Adams)
Congress (Rich Brown)
New Judge Training (Jeff Garst)
When you register your speakers and debaters for Squashfestival on tabroom.com, please also drop me an email () to let me know which of the morning “Work Sessions” your students will attend. You can drop or add someone pretty much right up the start of the work session. We will offer rounds in the following events:
Topics:
Policy--Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic and/or diplomatic engagement with the People’s Republic of China.
Lincoln Douglas debaters will debate the Nov/Dec. NSDA topic
PFdebaters will debate the Nov/Dec. NSDA topic
We’d love to see your teams take advantage of the opportunity to get students “feet wet” with the tournament experience before the beginning of the season. We will have our food/concessions up and running when you arrive until you leave. Hope to see you and both your novice and veteran team members!
James Constantino
Millard South HS