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Interested in Judging Debate? Baltimore Urban Debate League Needs your Help!
ORGANIZATION: Baltimore Urban Debate League
Please visit the new page to apply.
- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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18 people are interested
Sign-up here!: https://conta.cc/2QwaTsr
BUDL is offering the chance for you, your employees, friends, and family to join in the thrill of academic competition as judges. Debate judges are the linchpin of the tournaments. As one youth debater put it, "Without judges, debate doesn’t happen. It’s just people talking."
Get more info from volunteers@budl.org and check out this video to see what we do!
https://vimeo.com/280110690/05370b9d0f
What a judge does is simple, yet critical. Four young people (two teams of two) present the affirmative and negative sides of an issue. Each debater gets one shot at making their case. It’s exhilarating!
Here’s what some of our judges say about being BUDL judge:
Sheila: This was a fantastic experience, I had so much fun! The kids were great. I’ve never even been to a debate before. The team that runs this helps you out.
MaryLynn: As a judge, the debate experience was amazing. The BUDL staff and volunteers were very supportive and organized. And then, I was SO impressed by the talent and bravery of all of the students who participated in the event-public speaking is a real fear for so many people and these students faced any fears they may have had with great success!
Judges receive a brief training and relax between rounds in a private waiting area with free refreshments. Spending time with like-minded peers makes for a day our volunteers seem to love.
BUDL is seeing record number of youth debaters practicing and competing this season and, as civil discourse is needed more than ever in these challenging times, our volunteer needs are keeping pace. We count on our community to ensure debaters get the evaluation and feedback they need to take home those medals and trophies that mean so much to them. Thanks for being awesome!
*If you're a high school or college student, you may qualify for a small stipend.
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About Baltimore Urban Debate League
Location:
2601 N HOWARD ST STE 150, BALTIMORE, MD 21218, US
Mission Statement
The Baltimore Urban Debate League is dedicated to improving educational and life outcomes for disadvantaged students in Baltimore’s under resourced public schools. By creating learning opportunities through competitive debate and professional development with teachers to bring the benefits of debate inside the city’s classrooms, we support and inform the educational reform and revitalization efforts now underway in our district. Through the motivation and thrill of competitive debate we improve self esteem, increase academic achievement, improve graduation rates and access to higher education. For young people of promise, for their schools and their communities, we provide a new vision, hope and opportunity.
Description
The Baltimore Urban Debate League (BUDL) uses the art of debate to change lives. BUDL brings learning to life by making it relevant, real and fun. In competitive debate and in the debate classroom students do more than just memorize and spit back facts, they own and direct their learning, they approach a topic from where they are and by doing so they find their voice, their purpose and their power. Students in BUDL develop a thirst for knowledge and become inspired to seek and utilize new information.
BUDL was founded in 1999 as part of a national initiative driven by the Open Society Institute to tranform public education by bring debate back to the urban classroom.
From the League’s modest beginnings in 1999 when 90 pioneering students and 16 teachers in 8 of the City’s most challenged neighborhood high schools began to learn the skills and techniques of competitive policy debate, the League has expanded to involve more than 1,000 middle and high school students and more than 75 BCPSS teachers from 35 high schools and 25 middle schools each year in a rigorous program of after-school debate training, independent research activities, debate team practice sessions, and monthly competitive policy debate tournaments.
Today the Baltimore Urban Debate League is America’s largest and most successful urban debate league, a flagship within an urban debate movement which now includes over 400 public schools from urban debate leagues in 16 of the nation’s largest cities.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Western High School4600 Falls RoadBALTIMORE, MD 21209
DATE POSTED
October 25, 2018
SKILLS
- Public Speaking
- General Education
- Child Development
- Critical Thinking
- Reading / Writing
- Verbal / Written Communication
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Orientation or Training
- 4 - 5 hours
- The ability to assess information, take good notes, track time, give constructive feedback