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    THE VP KAMALA A HARRIS INVITATIONAL ​

    3 April 2021​

    DEADLINE
    26 Mar 2021
    ELIGIBILITY
    Open to high school students of all genders
    Lincoln Douglas only
    PLATFORM
    Online through Zoom

    Information

    The Women's Debate Institute is honored to invite the high school LD community to our first annual “We Speak: Kamala Harris Invitational''! We open this invitation to all participants who are advocates for gender inclusion and diversity in debate. We aim to provide exceptional judging and detailed feedback to all our participants along with a roundtable discussion and sponsored lunch as a continuation of our mission to ensure debate is affordable and accessible to all students. 

    Click here to read the letter from the tournament director.



    Location: Zoom  
    Lincoln Douglas Topic: NSDA March/April
    Resolved: The United States ought to guarantee universal child care.
     
    Profits collected for this event will be donated to assist the WDI in continuing to facilitate a gender inclusive community.
     
    Division’s
    This tournament will remain a one division open tournament unless inquiry for a novice division is made. We encourage novice debate as an essential part of debate. 
     
    Judging 
    We ask that participants bring a judge per entry. Please do not sign up if your parent (or substitute) cannot judge.

    Awards
    We will be having an award ceremony 
    Pre-Tournament nominations
    Students will receive virtual awards and should attend the award ceremony and nominate team members and community members for the following awards.

    2021 “WDI Kamala Harris Shero ” Awards 
    The Kamala Harris Shero Award – This award is named after Kamala Harris and is designed to recognize an outstanding gender minority debate coach in highschool- Lincoln Douglas. The ideal candidate can demonstrate service to programs, community building and competitive success.

    Don’t Stop Director of the year
    The WDI Don’t Stop Director of the year Award- This award is designed to recognize and outstanding gender minority director at any level and any debate forum that can demonstrate resiliency, program success, and community development. We welcome Collegiate and High School submission.
     
    Roundtable Discussion  
    Before the award ceremony we invite participants and members of the community to join us in an hour long roundtable discussion on anti-harassment practices. WDI will be premiering the Best Practices Manual in honor of Women's Month and would like to focus a discussion on the updates to the manual and the resources it provides to the community. We are honored to have Quaram Robinson join us as our Keynote Speaker! Quaram is the Best Debater of the Decade, A National Champion,Copeland Award Winner, Scholar, Educator, WDI instructor & so much more! Along with moderators such as Ava Vargason (WDI Executive Committee Member, Project Programming Chair) Sarah Jane Evans (WDI Instructor, Legal Specialist) and many others! ​

    ​Entry Price

    Entry fee $30 (parent must be judging, there is NO option to opt-out)
    ​
    Registration will not be complete until payment is received.
    NOTE: We will charge set up fees if we have to create tabroom.com accounts for judges. It is recommended you do so on your own.

    Schedule

    Please note that all times are in CENTRAL STANDARD TIME (CST).

    Date: Saturday, April 3rd, 2021 
     
    Slack check-in - 8:15am CST
    Round 1 - 8:45-10:30 am CST
    Round 2 - 11-12:30 pm CST
    Lunch - 12:30-1:30 pm CST  
    Round 3 - 1:45-3:15 pm CST
    Dinner Awards/Roundtable Discussion - 3:30-5:15 pm CST ​

    Drop Fee

    Drop fees will be the same amounts as the entry fee PLUS any fees the tournament charges us for late drops. Drop requests should be made to Victor and Nadia.

    Please do not drop out last minute to avoid being charged these fees.

    Contact Info

    Victor Rivas Umana
    Contact email:  vrivasumana@tgsastaff.com

    Nadia Budiman 
    Contact email: nbudiman@tgsastaff.com

    Or info@tgsastaff.com

    Registration Form


    STUDENT INFORMATION

    PARENT CONTACT INFORMATION
    Your email address will be the one included when we send the logistics email.

    EVENT SELECTION

    ​JUDGE PROVISION
    For this tournament, each student MUST provide one parent judge. There is no option to opt-out.
    Signing up a judge without having a Tabroom account will result in us charging you for the set up fee. You can do this easily on your own by going to tabroom.com. It takes two minutes.

    ​First time judging? Click here to learn how to do it! Or watch our Youtube playlist here.

    Tournaments recommend judges to have a judge philosophy on their Tabroom account, which can be a few sentences on your preferences of debating styles, etc. See here for example (it doesn't need to be this long, but make sure to add something before you sign up).

    TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Submit/take to payment

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Check our home page for the schedule!


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Sun: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

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Email (preferred)

For more info email us at: info@tgsastaff.com

Locations

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