Two East debaters are holding a speech and debate pre-season for novices across the state. YuYu Yuan and Adrian Graham must be the best ambassadors for speech and debate in the state, because this idea is brilliant. In a year where we might have trouble retaining new debaters, nothing could be better for debate than student-led activities. Check out YuYu's description here: My name is YuYu Yuan and I'm a debater at East High School. My friend Adrian Graham and I came up with the idea to have a pre-season zoom introduction event for the novices. As former novices ourselves, we know how hard it can be to become more comfortable in this activity. Information from outside sources also suggests that recruiting and retaining new competitors can be difficult. Especially with the COVID-19 pandemic, we understand there are multiple concerns like how to debate and practice online. Therefore, we believe that this 2-week event will encourage novices to stick with debate and pursue an activity that benefits them for years to come! We will have one hour sessions on Wednesdays and Thursdays and two hour sessions on Saturdays. Novices are in no way, shape, or form obligated to go to all of these nights. We will do fun activities for debate skills in all debate events, like flowing games and debates about silly topics, to get them warmed up and excited. This is just a way for novices to understand how fun debate can be and really get them interested. We don't want to step on your toes, so you are not obligated to tell your novices about this but if you believe, like we do, that this can be beneficial and ease the burden of the beginning of the season, please don't hesitate to tell them about it and get them to sign up!!!! Attached to this email is the tentative schedule, the quick survey kids should fill out as an RSVP and posters with QR codes to the survey that you can put up at your school. Dates:
First week: 4:00-5:00 PM (MTD) Wednesday, October 7, 2020 4:00-5:00 PM (MTD) Thursday, October 8, 2020 2:00-4:00 PM (MTD) Saturday, October 10, 2020 Second week: 4:00-5:00 PM (MTD) Wednesday, October 14, 2020 4:00-5:00 PM (MTD) Thursday, October 15, 2020 2:00-4:00 PM (MTD) Saturday, October 17, 2020 Sign up link: https://forms.gle/7AXNW34LpcBSmrxn8 The schedule can be found here. Thank you YuYu and Adrian for this excellent idea and marvelous service!
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