Debate Czar Chosen at Coach-In-Residence

BA Gregg, R-MA Debate Czar, has been selected as the Debate Coach-In-Residence for the National Now Debate This scholarship contest. The top-16 competitors, chosen from a pool nationwide and with an acceptance rate that was lower than Harvard's, will vie for a quarter of a million dollars worth in scholarships over the next two weeks. The competition will be based on debating the resolution of: Who is the Better President, Lincoln or Washington?

Lecturing at the Library of Congress, Mount Vernon, Gettysburg, Valley Forge, and Constitution Hall, Rev. Gregg has been tasked by the Templeton Foundation to prepare these sixteen students to compete online and televised on August 8th, with the final round being held at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia on August 19th.

Says Rev. Gregg, "To be tasked with developing the debate format, resolutions, and tournament structure for such a competition is a real joy. To be tasked with preparing 16 disparate debaters and non-debaters from across the nation to compete with credibility and poise is a real honor. And to do this all within a two-week period is a real nightmare. Yet we will prevail."

Spending the next two weeks at R-MA and on the road across the Northeast, Rev. Gregg will definitely have his work cut out for him to, not only prepare these students for the competition, but to also interview the applicants for the 2008/09 R-MA Speech and Debate Team.

You can follow the action at: http://nowdebatethis.com/

Welcome to R-MA Speech and Debate's Team Blog

After years of wrestling with newsletters and making sure that we had the most up-to-date information out there for our students and parents, we have now moved fully into the 21st Century with the RMA Speech and Debate Blog.

Not only will this Blog be available directly from the debate.rma.edu website, but you can navigate to it by just going to rmadebate.blogspot.com.

We will start the laborious upload process shortly of months of tournament reports and picture links. ~BAG

WFTR Podcast Archive

Did you know that you can hear the entire R-MA Debate Team Radio Archive, going all the way back to 2006 on your computer? Pretty cool, huh?

Hosting the nation's only biweekly radio program produced and staffed by a high school debate team, the WFTR Radio Club House provides insightful commentary on current debate resolutions, news, and global political and economic trends.

You can listen to the entire archive by clicking here. All shows available in mp3 format. The radio show will start again in September with a new lineup of student commentators and new topics. Every show will be posted on the RMA Newsfeed as they come available.

Debate Czar Honored at NFL

At the 2008 NFL National Tournament in Las Vegas, Nevada, Rev. Gregg received his 10th National Service Plaque -- only the second to do so in the history of the 83-year history of the National Forensic League.

The Service Plaque is rewarded to outstanding coaches who have devoted their time and energies to developing speech and debate in the nation. Coaches receive citations for directing tournaments, service as State Chairs, recruiting new schools, sponsoring new chapters, publishing articles, giving lectures on the NFL.