Schools bring students. Volunteers judge, coach, and mentor. Corporate partners and donors keep everything free. Every one of those roles is open.
Bring debate programming and resources to your students. We work with Title I schools across Charlotte-Mecklenburg and the wider metro, whether you have an existing club or no program at all.
Judges, mentors, coaches, researchers, college debaters, and community members all have a place. Debate experience helps but is not required; we train every judge before their first round.
Sponsor competitions, programming, student access, transportation, materials, or expansion to new schools. Partnerships can be shaped around your priorities and can include employee volunteering.
Support equitable access to speech and debate. Individual gifts fund the practical costs that keep students out of tournaments: entry fees, transportation, and materials.
Every dollar removes a reason a student cannot compete.
Entry fees, transportation, and materials are small costs individually and decisive in aggregate. They are the difference between a school that enters a tournament and one that never does. Supporters cover those costs so the only question a student faces is whether they want to debate.
What your support makes possibleCoaching sessions, research days, practice rounds, and tournament weekends, all free to the schools and families involved.
Call us or use the contact form. Tell us which role fits and we will follow up.
