The 2008-09 Bickel & Brewer/NYU National Public Policy Forum (NPPF) is coming up next weekend, the only international contest that provides high school students with the opportunity to participate in written and oral debates on issues of public policy.
One hundred eighty-two teams registered for this year’s competition. Writing on either side of the contest resolution, public and private secondary school teams submitted essays on the public policy topic, “Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase alternative energy incentives in the United States.”
From those essays, Qualifying Round judges selected 32 schools to write on the same topic in a single-elimination contest. From this process, four teams emerged: Bellaire High School—Bellaire, TX; Glenbrook North High School—Northbrook, IL, Plano Senior High School—Plano, TX and Deer Park High School—Deer Park, TX. These four schools recently competed in a final written debate and have earned an all-expense-paid trip to New York, to participate in the first round of oral debate.
The semifinal and final rounds will be webcast from the Edwin Lawrence Debate Theater at http://www.uvm.edu/debate_theater/
YOU MUST HAVE QUICKTIME 7.0 OR HIGHER INSTALLED.
WEBCAST SPONSORED BY: DEBATE CENTRAL, UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND THE WORLD DEBATE INSTITUTE
Saturday, April 18:
9 am
Semifinals Debate #1 (90 minutes)
Bellaire High School (affirmative) vs. Glenbrook North High School (negative)
10:45 am
Semifinals Debate #2 (90 minutes)
Deer Park High School (affirmative) vs. Plano Senior High School (negative)
4 pm
Finals Debate
This contest is also suppoorted by the International Debate Education Association, the National Forensic League and the National Association for Urban Debate Leagues.
For more informtion, go to http://nppf.net
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