DEBATE-Kansas City

Best wishes from DEBATE-KC, and we hope you find time to commemorate Martin Luther King Day 2021 from a distance. If you have not already chosen your preferred method, check out our latest blog post. Celebrate his life with a short read on a few of his more biting quotes and get a fuller picture of his politics. https://debatekansascity.shop//4-radical-martin-luther-kin

We are excited to announce the launch of our brand new online store, DEBATEKansasCity.shop/ We have sweaters, t-shirts, stickers, and more. Browse our catalog, order products, make a donation, and breathe a sigh of relief with our various secure payment methods, including PayPal. Before, after, or even while you shop, check out our new blog, debatekansascity.shop/blogs/the-expando-blog Enjoy new articles every week. Stay up to date on our latest news, get helpful tips on improving at debate, sink your teeth into book recommendations, and, of course, plenty more.

Varsity Finals of the DKC City Championship 2020 online edition! Sumner Academy - Debate & Forensics vs. University Academy DKC staff is judging these four amazing women. We are in the middle of the negative block and it's a super close debate that is well argued by both teams. The knowledge and control of the issues and complexities of criminal justice reform is impressive and beyond dynamic. Check back in the comments for updates on the round. Congrats to both teams on a great tournament.

DKC staff goes live to update our supporters on league activities and ask folks to support DKC on this Giving Tuesday! Every gift given on Tuesday will be matched by Facebook and other community supporters!

Join DKC Tomorrow at 10 am for a league update and student spotlight! This is our #Givingtuesday holiday party please join us and share this event with friends! All funds raised tomorrow will be matched by Facebook or other community supporters so please help us take full advantage of this opportunity!

DKC is in need of judges! We have two tournaments this week: Oct. 20th & Oct. 22nd Both tournaments have rounds at 4pm and 5pm.... If you are available to judge, please message the page. We are all online, do distance does not matter!

DKC hosted its first virtual weeknight policy debate tournament we will announce the winners in the varsity division and provide other league updates.

DKC will go live for varsity awards in about 15 min.

Despite the challenges presented by the ongoing pandemic, we are pumped for this year's digitized debate season! Next week, we roll up our sleeves and prepare students for controversy and dialogue in two sessions: Middle School Workshop - September 29th... High School Workshop - October 1st In these upcoming workshops, we introduce students to their new topic and our policy debate league. In addition, we will present a demonstration debate, putting these new arguments to the test.

DKC is hosting its online debate camp this week! Below is a screenshot of our students engaging with three amazing representatives of the ACLU! The coming seasons topic is criminal justice reform. Our students ask great questions and have great ideas and solutions to the big issues we face as a society! These kids are on point!

Check out DKC Program Director Corey Fisher and reigning Top Speaker in the nation Neymara Freeman of Sumner Academy as they chat with Steve Kraske on KCUR's Up To Date!

We are still accepting applications for our Summer debate camp, July 13th-17th! Sign up today to get ahead on the criminal justice reform topic. We will have some amazing college debaters to assist us, as well as excellent guest speakers including attorneys at the ACLU who are working directly on criminal justice reforms! New or veterans to debate, we promise this is will be an exciting and thought provoking camp. The application link is below!... https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSdb7SKKpTc10a-mc/viewform

Thank You to all the musicians who preformed at the DKC fundraiser; Raising Coin & Making Change! Please consider listening to their music and supporting them by purchasing merchandise or going to see them live! They are all generous and talented people! Kian Byrne Peter Schlamb Julia Haile Francesca Fitzner Karl McComas-Reichl Desmond Mason

Please tune in!

NBC Action News showing DKC some love!

NBC Action News interviewing DKC students and staff about our programing in the world of COVID19! Be watching the morning news on channel 41 later this week for the full story! In the meantime if you want to support DKC please visit www.debatekansascity.org we are so close to reaching our goal! Your support makes opportunities like this possible for students of Kansas City!

Be sure to tune in June 29th at 6:30pm as we have some amazing KC musicians play on livestream. Enjoy the music and give a little in support of DKC as we expand programming for students debate criminal justice reform! And as always, be sure to share this event with your friends!

DKC says thank you to Mentors Foundation for all of your amazing support over the years! If you agree with the Mentors Foundation please consider supporting us like they have! You can find our current fundraising campaign on our Facebook page and website! www.debatekansascity.org!