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    YG SPRING CONGRESS AND SPEECH TOURNAMENT

    12 March 2022

    DEADLINE
    6 Mar 2022
    DROPPING AFTER THIS DATE WILL CAUSE YOU TO LOSE THE ENTRY FEE
    ELIGIBILITY
    Open to elementary school students in the weekend elementary program
    PLATFORM
    Online through NSDA Platform 

    Information

    Saturday, March 12, 2022 • 8:30am to 5:30pm

    Young Genius Association is very excited to host its seventh annual spring Congressional Debate tournament for Elementary School students. We are one of few organizations that coordinate tournaments for younger competitors, and we invite all Congressional Debaters in the 3rd through 8th grades to attend!
    Elementary and Middle School students will compete in two different divisions. 

    New This Year
    As an added competition opportunity, we are excited to offer an event for Elementary School students in 3rd grade: Campaign Speech. Please see below for more information about the event.

    Congress:
    • 3rd to 5th graders welcome
    • CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE TOURNAMENT CONGRESS DOCKET AND HANDBOOK

    Campaign Speech:
    • 3rd graders ONLY
    • Competitors should present a short speech explaining why they should be elected to hold a certain office, which may be real or fictional.
    • All of the speech should be the student's original writing.
    • Visual aids are not permitted.
    • Speech time should be 2-3 minutes

    ​Entry Price

    Campaign Speech and parent is judging $80
    Campaign Seech and parent is OPTING OUT of judging $160

    Congress and parent is judging $80
    Congress and parent is OPTING OUT of judging $160

    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

    Tournament Schedule (all times PST)
    Please note: We STRONGLY encourage students to get up from their computers to stretch their legs and rest their eyes in between rounds!

    7:30-8:30am PST: Judge orientation and check-in (mandatory for all judges - if you do not attend, you will be fined $50)
    8:30-8:45am PST: Welcome Ceremony
    9:00-10:30am PST: Round 1 of Congressional Debate
    9:30-10:30am PST: Round 1 of Elementary Speech
    11:00am-12:30pm PST: Round 2 of Congressional Debate
    11:30am-12:30pm PST: Round 2 of Elementary Speech
    1:00-2:30pm PST: Round 3 of Congressional Debate
    1:30-2:30pm PST: Round 3 of Elementary Speech
    5:00pm PST: Awards Ceremony

    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
    ​Suggested attire for the tournament can be found here.
    ​More tournament resources can be found 
    here.
    If this is your first time competing, make sure to first create a Tabroom account here: https://www.tabroom.com/user/login/new_user.mhtml
    It's super simple and quick (<1 minute), but follow the guidelines here in case anything is confusing: ​https://docs.tabroom.com/Sign_Up

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

    EVENT SELECTION

    ​JUDGE PROVISION

    ​Click here to complete the highly recommended Cultural Competency judge training course

    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 literally takes less than a minute.


    First time judging? Click here to learn how to do it! Or watch our Youtube playlist here.
    ​There are also these training cards available that include a summary of each event's rules and comments.​

    ​Tournaments encourage judges to have a paradigm 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. For example: "I am a parent, please speak clearly and slowly and avoid technical jargon".​

    ​
    More tournament resources can be found here.

    TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Submit/take to payment

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Check our home page for the schedule!


School year Hours

M-F: 3:45 pm - 8:30 pm 
Sun: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Telephone

510-270-8480
510-470-0531

Email (preferred)

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

Locations

Fremont: 200 Brown Rd #201, Fremont, CA 94539

Cupertino: 20432 Silverado Avenue Suite 211, Cupertino, CA 95014

Aborn Institute: 2804 Riedel Road, San Jose, CA 95135 

Loving Tree Academy: 36601 Newark Blvd, #83, Newark, CA 94560
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