St. Pauls Jr 2015

Junior Debate Tournament (Grade 9 and under)

Time: Thursday, October 29th. Registration from 5 to 5:30. Awards around 9 PM

Location: St. Paul’s High School, 2200 Grant Ave., Winnipeg

Resolution: Two prepared rounds: BIRT this House would continue our current use of resources on space exploration

Speaking times for all debates will be a maximum of 6 minutes for constructive speeches and 3 minutes for rebuttals. Points of information are allowed in the open category. (Rules are described in the parliamentary rules available on the MSDA website (https://sites.google.com/site/manitobadebate/rules-and-scoresheets/parliamentary-debate-rules )

If there are sufficient entries, there will be separate novice and open categories at the tournament. In order to qualify as novice, debaters must be in their first year of debating or must be grade 6 or 7. Schools may send a maximum of 3 teams in total, i.e. adding together the novice and open teams. Depending upon numbers, it may be possible to send additional teams. If you would like to do so please indicate this on the form and, if you include your phone number or email address, I will let you know as soon as possible. Schools must bring at least one judge per team. If this presents a problem, please contact me about it and we will see if other arrangements can be made. Judges may be grade 10, 11 or 12 students.

To register, please go to http://sphsjrdebate2015.questionpro.com and fill out the registration form by October 20th.

If you have any questions, please contact Anna McGill at amcgill@stpauls.mb.ca or 204-479-5278.