Welcome to GBN Debate

We are not only the best debate team in the country, but pride ourselves on being a supportive family of students and coaches that welcomes all interested students.

Benefits of debate

Many studies affirm the value of debate in providing students the skills necessary not only to be a competitive debater, but also in their other high school and college academic pursuits. High school debate increases students’ critical thinking skills, helps them to better analyze and synthesize large quantities of information, enables them to engage in top level research, as well as improves their public speaking skills. Please explore the rest of the debate team’s webpage to see other benefits.

How do you join?

It’s easy, take a debate class. Everyone in the debate classes is automatically on the debate team. While in the Introduction to Debate course there is no requirement to debate, but we will encourage it!