WELCOME TO THE 2022 WFCA ONLINE STATE STUDENT CONGRESS

AWARDS LINK: https://youtu.be/qI0atJtX6uo  (fixed)

Due to complexities with travel for many schools limiting the ability to hold congress in conjunction with the live State Tournament, the 2022 Congress will again be held online concurrent with the Virtual State Tournament.

Important Dates:

Legislation Due March 25 @ 6:00 pm (see requirements below)

Legislation Posted by 3 pm on March 28. If it is available sooner, an announcement email will be sent.

Registration (students and judges) due and fees/judge burdens fixed April 6 @ 7 pm

Chamber Groupings and PO requests April 7 @ 3 pm (late groupings will result in random assignment)

Prelim Schedule Friday 4/8:

2:00-2:30 Coaches verify student/judge participants present.

3:00 Opening meeting and announcements
3:15-5:15 Session I

6:00-8:00 Session II

Postings ASAP

Final Schedule Saturday 4/9:

12:00-2:30 (approx) Final Session

Changes from our standard operations for Student Congress in the WFCA Handbook:

Legislation: Please submit in pdf format. Two items per school, unique to the students of the submitting school and the current school year. One should be designated as the priority bill, the other will be placed in a reserve docket or will be up for potential selection for use in finals. Coaches are responsible for ensuring legislation complies with formatting requirements or it may be rejected without ability to resubmit. Legislation must be one page, minimum 11pt type, double-spaced, and with line numbers. All legislation should be submitted via tabroom or can be emailed to Tim Scheffler  timscheff@aol.com

Section size: Because online meeting rooms become more stressed with higher numbers of participants section sizes will be reduced from the 13-25 participants designated by the rules. While the final numbers will be determined based on available judges, there will be an attempt at keeping sections under 14.

Entries: Schools may enter up to 16 entries. Please check that all students and judges have access to accounts on tabroom.com as the competition will be held on NSDA campus.

Judges: To accommodate for creating smaller sections schools must provide 1 judge for up to 8 entries, 2 for 9-16 entries. Individuals comfortable with being parliamentarians should be identified in advance. We will attempt to create a panel of volunteer/hired judges for Saturday's Final round. If you have a judge who is sufficient removed from student competitors to avoid a conflict and wants to volunteer to switch to a Saturday assignment, or if you have a judge who could be a potential addition to the Saturday pool, please let Tim Scheffler know.

Fees: $10 per entry, amounts will be added to the final invoices sent by the WFCA Treasurer.