Projects and Programs

The WDC is in the process of developing programming for the upcoming year to help bring the educational benefits of policy debate to more Washington students. WDC programs include:

Incentives

The WDC will provide multiple incentives for Washington high schools and institutions of higher education to create and support policy debate programs. Specifically, the WDC plans to provide start-up grants to new high school and college policy debate programs, offer scholarships to high school policy debaters to debate at Washington colleges and universities, and establish internship credit and grant programs for coaching in Washington high schools.

Infrastructural support

The WDC will provide infrastructural support to Washington policy debate programs by partnering with local organizations to develop debate workshops and training programs, improving access to research resources, contacting and organizing alumni, and helping to increase the number of debate tournaments held in Washington. The Need a Coach? Want to Coach? program will match debate coaches with high schools in their area that are seeking coaching.

Promotional support

The Debate Film Festival is tentatively scheduled for April 2009 in Seattle, WA, and will include a host of debate-related films on the big screen. Look for details on the WDC website.

And more...

We would love input about WDC programming. Contact us at info@washingtondebate.org with your ideas. With your help, we can expand debate opportunities across Washington.