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Welcome to the STEM Spring Invitational!

This tournament will be hosted in person and is open to middle school students.

This tournament will follow all NSDA rules, timing, and ballots for the offered events. Students entered in debate cannot enter in two events. Students can double enter in the Speech events.

Speech Options

Original Oratory

Program Oral Interpretation (Varsity Interpretation)

Poetry Interpretation (Novice Interpretation)

Impromptu

Informative

Debate Options

Novice Public Forum (Middle Schoolers within their first year of competition)

Varsity Public Forum

For Debate, we will be using the March NSDA Topic: Resolved: The United States federal government should ban corporate acquisition of single-family residences.

Schedule:

April 5th: all registrations and judge entries are DUE and finalized.

April 10th:

Judge Training at 4:00

Round 1 - 4:30 to 5:30

Round 2 - 5:45 to 6:45

Round 3 - 7:00 to 8:00

Finals (if needed) - 8:00 to 8:45

Awards - 9:00 to 9:30

Judges Owed:

One per 6 speech entries

One per 2 debate entries (4 students)

Parking:
Please park either on the west side in the small lot, or on the east side in the secondary lot. There will be entrances on both sides.