{"id":17928,"date":"2005-11-21T15:16:44","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T20:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=17928"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:32:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:32:30","slug":"tournament-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2005\/11\/21\/tournament-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooks Quimby Debate Council hosts annual high school tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½<\/a><\/p>\n

For the third consecutive year, the Brooks Quimby Debate Council hosted a Maine\u00a0high school forensics tournament. Approximately 315 students took part in the all-day event on Saturday, Nov. 19. A scheduled tournament for the 2005-06 season of the Maine Forensics Association, the judged competition featured events in speech, Lincoln-Douglas and public forum debate and student congress. The MFA promotes the development of articulate leadership among secondary students throughout the state.<\/p>\n

\n

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College junior Vaibhav Bajpai of Calcutta, India, organized the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Forensics Tournament with the help of his debate teammates and their coach, Bryan Brito, director of debate at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. Lewiston<\/p>\n

High School speech coach John Blanchette, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Class of 1987, helped to organize the speech events for the tournament.<\/p>\n

This year, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ added the category of public forum to the tournament and increased the number of high school competitors by 55. “We hope to keep growing this tournament in order to develop a closer connection with the high school debate and speech community in Maine,” Bajpai says.<\/p>\n

Schools receiving top tournament honors from the Quimby Debate Council were: Edward Little High School for best overall performance by a team in student congress; Brunswick High School for best overall performance by a team in Lincoln-Douglas debate; Bangor High School for best overall performance by a team in public forum debate; and Skowhegan High School for best overall performance by a team in speech.<\/p>\n

\"President<\/a><\/p>\n

To support the tournament, the Quimby Debate Council received funding from the offices of the president and dean of students and the Harward Center for Community Partnerships.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the third consecutive year, the Brooks Quimby Debate Council hosted a Maine high school forensics tournament. Approximately 315 students took part in the all-day event on Saturday, Nov. 19. A scheduled tournament for the 2005-06 season of the Maine Forensics Association, the judged competition featured events in speech, Lincoln-Douglas and public forum debate and student congress. The MFA promotes the development of articulate leadership among secondary students throughout the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"","_header-color":"","_photo-credit":"","_header-effect":"","override_related_with_tag":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,32,17,220,11009],"tags":[1847,10840,4087],"class_list":["post-17928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-maine-and-new-england","category-partners-public","category-service","category-the-college","tag-brooks-quimby-debate-council","tag-elaine-tuttle-hansen","tag-harward-center-for-community-partnerships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90212,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17928\/revisions\/90212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}