Welcome back to another season of speech and debate! In this weekly coach newsletter, we round up helpful resources, opportunities, and community information to help simplify your life and support your team. The new membership cycle started August 1! If you haven't yet renewed your annual school membership, be sure to do so by the end of September to continue to receive this newsletter. Questions about speech and debate? Email us at info@speechanddebate.org or call us at (920) 748-6206. We're here to help!
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Use Our Tools and Make a Plan to Recruit New Team Members
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A new season means new recruits! Here are a few quick ideas to get started building your team:
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- Connect with teachers and leaders of other clubs to ask them to recommend students for the team.
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Coordinate students visiting classes (ex: all English classes) to give a quick pitch.
- Encourage students to pass out flyers at info tables before school, after school, or over lunch hours.
- Get a plug in school announcements.
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Hang posters in school hallways to spread the word.
- Encourage students to share their experience with the team on social media.
Find flyers, social graphics, videos, and more to support your recruitment on our website.
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$5,000 Team Grant Available This Fall—Apply by October 1
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Keith West dedicated his life to coaching and teaching youth in the ways of argumentation and debate. To honor his life and legacy, Keith’s family and friends have established the Keith West Memorial School Grant to provide one $5,000, two $2,500 grants, and five $1,000 grants to support speech and debate teams who have strong potential but a significant lack of financial resources.
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Prep for the Policy Topic with Free Workshops
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We invite students and coaches to learn more about intellectual property in preparation for the 2024-2025 Policy Debate topic, Resolved: The United States federal government should significantly strengthen its protection of domestic intellectual property rights in copyrights, patents, and/or trademarks.
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Over the course of three FREE sessions this fall, COSI’s online Extracurricular Intellectual Property Innovation Center will introduce the basics of intellectual property, explore current issues in IP, answer questions, and offer feedback on arguments. Learn more or sign up today. Each workshop will be recorded and provided to registered participant.
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Save Time: Import Your NSDA Roster to Tabroom.com
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Once you've entered your new students for the season onto your NSDA roster, it's time to connect the dots with Tabroom.com. Linking your Tabroom.com student roster to your NSDA account will allow you to automatically import your students to Tabroom.com. This also enables auto-pointing, where a student's points from tournaments hosted on Tabroom.com can be posted automatically and approved rather than being hand entered. Get the instructions »
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Mark Your Calendar for the 2025 Last-Chance Qualifier!
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The NSDA Last-Chance Qualifier, presented by The Julia Burke Foundation, will be held online April 24-26, 2025. The NSDA Last-Chance Qualifier is an opportunity for students who did not qualify through their district tournament series to have a chance to attend the 2025 National Tournament in Des Moines.
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Access Digital Membership Certificates
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As advisor, you can also opt to go paperless for certificates and seals, meaning your school will not receive physical membership materials in the mail. You may opt in to this option as part of the renewal process by toggling Paperless on, but that is not your only chance: advisors may opt in or out of Paperless at any time from their school profile page. Changes will only apply to future materials, not prior or in-progress mailings. International schools are all paperless this year.
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Read the Nationals Chronicle
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The 2024 National Tournament was one for the record books. Check out this special issue of Rostrum where we recap the highlights of the week and celebrate our award winners!
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