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This week we celebrate our Harlem and Manhattan Summer Debate Institutes! The first week of July featured the Harlem Summer Debate Institute at Columbia University. The Institute featured a field trip to the NY Historical Society, Central Park, Mummy Wraps, and lots of debates!
Click here for the Tournament Photo Album and
click here for the Summer Camp photo album. And
click here for the complete results from the NYC Summer Debate Tournament #1!
Last week featured our largest summer debate program - The Manhattan Debate Institute for High School Students at the Silberman Graduate School of Social Work and the Middle School and Elementary School Debate Institutes at Hunter College. We thank the countless volunteers, instructors, teachers, students, parents, family members, colleges and our supporters for making these programs possible. Because of your support over 200 students participated in debate institutes over the past two weeks .... and we have five more weeks to go!
Harlem Debate Institute Tournament Results
Harlem Debate Institute Tournament Photo Album
Harlem Debate Institute Photo Album
If you haven't signed up for our August summer debate institutes in Queens or Brooklyn - you can still sign up by visiting our registration page by clicking here. Thank you for everyone joining us this summer and sharing your passion for debate!
Sincerely,
Erik Fogel
BE GREAT AND SUPPORT THE GREAT DEBATERS!
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SUMMER DEBATE INSTITUTE CALENDAR
FALL 2017 DEBATE SEASON CALENDAR
September
9/9 - NYC Debate Club
9/9 - Travel Team Practice and Coach Orientation
9/15-9/17 - Travel Team Tournament #1: Yale University
9/16 - NYC Debate Club
9/23 - NYC Debate Club
9/30 - NYC Debate Club
October
10/7 - Middle School Tournament #1 (Parliamentary Debate)
10/7 - Middle School Tournament #1 (Public Forum Debate)
10/14 - Travel Team Practice
10/14 - NYC Debate Club
10/21 - High School Tournament #1
10/21 - NYC Debate Club
10/28- NYC Debate Club
November
11/4 - NYC Debate Club
11/11 - Middle School Tournament #2 (All Events)
11/11 - Travel Team Practice
11/18 - High School Tournament #2
11/18 - NYC Debate Club
December
12/1-13/3 - Travel Team Tournament #2: Princeton University and Scranton
12/2 - Middle School Tournament #3 (Parliamentary Debate)
12/2 - Middle School Tournament #3 (Public Forum Debate)
12/9 - NYC Debate Club
12/10 - Travel Team Practice
12/16 - High School Tournament #3
12/16 - NYC Debate Club
January
1/5-1/7 - Travel Team Tournament: Newark Invitational
1/6 - Middle School Tournament #4 (All Events)
1/13 - NYC Debate Club
1/20 - High School Tournament #4 (All Events)
1/20 - NYC Debate Club
1/27 - Travel Team Practice and Coach Orientation
1/27 - NYC Debate Club
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SIGN UP YOUR SCHOOL FOR THE UPCOMING DEBATE SEASON!
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The New York City Urban Debate League is the largest urban debate league in the nation. We support debate practices everyday, tournaments every weekend, workshops every week, travel team tournaments and practices every month, one of the best debate curriculum and training programs in the nation, quarterly all day teacher professional development sessions, the longest and largest summer debate program in the nation, monthly scrimmages, the City Championships, the State Championships... and the list goes on and on!
We are also one of the most honored after school programs in the nation, receiving multiple awards including the White House Youth Awards as one of the nation's top after school programs in the arts and humanities!
We would be honored for your school to join the debate league which is open to all high schools, middle schools and upper elementary schools. Our mission is every school and every student in New York City should have access to the best debate education opportunities. And so let us know however we can support debate in your school.
Registration is now open for the 2017-2018 school year! Please email us at [email protected] or call us at 917-455-1079 if you have any questions, or register below! Thanks and see you soon!
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Harlem Summer Debate Institute & Columbia University
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Manhattan Middle School and Elementary School Summer Debate Institutes @ Hunter College
Thank you to Hunter College and the Bella Abzug Leadership Institute (BALI) for hosting the Manhattan Middle School and Elementary School Debate Institutes at Hunter College! Since we were founded six years ago, Hunter College has hosted our largest debate camp! Over 100 students, teachers, volunteers and staff came together this week to celebrate debate! Thank you for everyone attending!
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Manhattan High School Summer Debate Institute @ Silberman School of Social Work
Thank you to the Silberman Graduate School of Social Work which hosts one of our most rigorous debate programs for high school students only with a state of the art, brand new college facility, library and multiple computer labs.
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"I am a first year college student at Simpson College in Iowa. I am enrolled in the Criminal Justice Masters degree program and majoring in Psychology. My career goal is to be a Profiler for a federal agency or a psychologist for a federal agency. Debate has given me the tools to be able to speak in public and do extensive research on any topic or argument that I use for my papers in college. This has boosted my confidence to even start my own club on campus." - Linda Ramseur, NYCUDL Alumni and College Sophomore at Simpson College
Linda is a College Sophomore at Simpson College in Iowa and NYCUDL alumni. She was a top debater for ACORN Community High School from Fall 2012-Spring 2016 and also served as a volunteer judge for middle school and high school debates all four years. Linda is continuing debate in college with the Parliamentary and Mock Trial Debate Teams and also starting a Policy Debate Team at her school to compete on the CEDA level. Linda was selected as an Alumni Ambassador for the National Association of Urban Debate League's Championship Tournament last spring. This summer we are honored that Linda is joining us as a lead summer debate instructor.
Congratulations Linda to all of your accomplishments and many more to come! Thank you and honored to have you at summer debate camp!
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SUMMER COACH SPOTLIGHT!
Click here to sign up your school for the new debate season!
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"I am a 7th Grade ELA teacher with a passion for helping students to use language effectively. I studied Philosophy at Hamilton College, worked as a community organizer before Barack Obama made it cool, worked at legal assistance not-for-profit organization, and then decided to use my talents to become a teacher. I've always loved and appreciated the sport of argument, and I especially enjoy helping others to craft their own writing." -
David
Hartman, Teacher (National Board Certified) and Debate Coach at the Columbia Secondary School
David was also a member of his high school's debate team. He has come full circle and now teaches debate, public speaking, and philosophy to both middle school and high school students.
Thank you David for building an incredible debate program at your school and now joining us at Summer Debate Camp to share your passion for debate with countless other students! Thank You!
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SUMMER VOLUNTEERS SPOTLIGHT!
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Our volunteer shout out this week goes to Anuj
Gupta who has an incredible passion for debate and volunteered at both the Harlem and Manhattan Summer Debate Institutes!
"I will be attending Columbia University this fall. I've debated Lincoln Douglas for 4 years at Roslyn High School. I was captain of the team for two years, where I built our national circuit debate program from scratch. I've made PowerPoints, ran drills, shown students how to effectively research, and given students the tools with which to build cohesive arguments and strategies. I've had students go far at several prestigious tournaments (Yale, Harvard, New York State Championships) and have had a lot of positive feedback from the community. I've competed at several tournaments on the national circuit and have broken twice at the NYSFL State Championship tournament. I also qualified to the NCFL national tournament my senior year. Aside from debate, I love music, reading, and playing basketball." - Anuj Gupta
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GREAT DEBATER BLOGS SPOTLIGHT!
Our Blogs on how Debaters are always changing the world.
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"A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed." - Nelson Mandela
This week we celebrate the birthday of Nelson Mandela (July 18th 1918- December 5th, 2013). Civil Rights Leader, Anti-Apartheid Crusader, first Black and first democratically elected President of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize Winner (and winner of 250 other honors), philanthropist... and he was on his school's debate team!
In today's political world, Mandela's words like "wisdom, "modesty," "respect," "empathy," and "understanding" are foreign to many of our political leaders and replaced by the very dangers stated by Mandela of arrogance, superficiality, and disinformation.
We need a Nelson Mandela more than ever who puts social justice first and foremost - even before himself... Here was an individual willing to sacrifice a lifetime in prison for his beliefs.
Read more about Nelson Mandela and how debate impacted his life, by visiting us at our Great Debaters Blog!
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Fall Registration is Open!
Sign up for the NYC Debate Club!
The New York City Debate Club meet on Saturdays at our Office during the Fall and Spring Semesters for drop in debate practices for 4th -12th grade students. Our students have won local, city, regional and national tournaments. Students participating in Debate Club are eligible to participate in all NYCUDL tournaments. All levels are welcome from Beginners to Advanced. Our instructors are among the top debaters and coaches in the city.
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2017 SUMMER DEBATE INSTITUTES
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HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER DEBATE INSTITUTES (GRADES 8TH-12TH)
Varsity Summer Scholars Debate Institute @ The Urban Assembly School for Young Women (July 31st - August 11th, 9:00am-5:00pm).
Click here for registration.
MIDDLE SCHOOL SUMMER DEBATE INSTITUTES (GRADES 5TH-8TH)
Harlem Debate Institute @ Columbia University (July 3 - July 7th).
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SUMMER DEBATE INSTITUTES (GRADES 3RD - 5TH)
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