Corporate Group Opportunity helping student debaters. No experience needed.

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The Chicago Debates (formerly Chicago Debate Commission) needs your support! Come work with Chicago students to support their skills in policy-making, speech, and critical thinking in a competitive environment. We have opportunity for your group of coworkers, congregation, alumni or fraternity to come support and help run a debate tournament for young urban students. Opportunities include judging policy debates or volunteer support staff. No debate experience needed and debaters (or non debaters) of all levels are encouraged to sign up.

Academic Debate is life changing for the debaters, but you can benefit too!

Why Judge Debate?

• Empower a young person
• Serve as a conscientious educator
• Use your professional skills to support future leaders
• Improve your professional network working with other judges
• Academic service learning opportunity
• Give back
• Team Building fun!

The debate tournament is a long day, but you can feel free to help out in shifts. Come support one (or all) of our working shifts.

Shift 1 (Saturday morning) : 8:00am - 12:30pm

Shift 2: 12:30pm - 6:00pm

Friday shifts: 5:30-9:30 pm

*Please note debate tournaments take place in schools across metro Chicago on Friday evenings and/or Saturdays. Tournament dates and locations will be available at training.

Judges will receive a 1-2 hour introduction training on policy debate judging to ensure volunteers are comfortable with this new opportunity!

RSVP for an upcoming orientation/training

udges will receive a 1-2 hour introduction training on policy debate judging to ensure volunteers are comfortable with this new opportunity!

RSVP for an upcoming November orientation/training

Thursday, November 15
6:00-8:00 pm

Friday, Nov 30
10:30 am - 12:30 pm

Visit http://chicagodebates.org/volunteer/ for more details.

Training sessions are held on a monthly basis.

Visit http://chicagodebates.org/volunteer/ for more details.