WUDL 2022 End of Year Awards: Teams Coach Yigletu with the 2023 Sweepstakes Cup Winning BASIS DC Debate Team, held by Middle School National Champions Gerety / Applegate Washington Urban Debate wrapped up season 2022 – 2023 on a high note with our End of Year awards. These awards are given out to students, coaches, […]
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WUDL Students Defend Middle School Nationals Title! Upper Left: National Champions Margaret and Susie from BASIS DC, defending their National Title from last year’s champs, Sitara and Violet . On Right: BASIS DC’s Greta and Alex, who finished as Semi-Finalists “It was really an equity issue honestly.” Boston Debate League Assistant Program Director Roger Nix,
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WUDL Students Debate NATO at UK Embassy From left: Dame Karen Pierce, Lady of Roxburgh and UK Ambassador to the United Kingdom, and Washington Urban Debate students after the final round. Judge a few debate rounds, and you’ll always notice that debaters are a bit ahead of the curve. We debated infrastructure a decade before
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First WUDL Alumni Competes at NDT (College Nationals) Emmanuel Makinde (left) and Vikram Saigal at the NDT 2023 A couple of weekends ago, I had the honor of participating in the National Debate Tournament. The tournament was intense, challenging, but most importantly, exciting and incredibly rewarding to participate in an event that I have spent
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WUDL Sets Reaches New Competitive Heights in Dallas at Urban Debate National Championship Washington Urban Debate at Nationals in 2023: Joey, Liv, David, Danielle, Jener, Akesh, and Eric. After three years, we finally got to Dallas! The Urban Debate National Championship (UDNC), hosted by Southern Methodist University, was originally scheduled for May 2020. As you
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Paris is the first WUDL Alumni to be named Volunteer of the Year!
Paris, the long-time captain of the Charles Flowers debate team, was a student coach before graduation, and has taken to coaching naturally afterwards. On sabbatical from Duke University, Paris has jumped into supporting WUDL with both feet.
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WUDL Celebrates Season Long Awards 2023 Sweepstakes Cup Champions BASIS DC: Coach Yigletu with Caspar, Daniella, Jenny, Saron, Greta, Sitara, Violet, Margaret, and Victoria We are so excited to share the award winners for our season-long awards, recognizing excellence, hard work, and growth across the entire season: WUDL Sweepstakes Cup: BASIS DC High School Team
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WUDL End of Year Tournament Full of Growth, Excellence It was a full house as we awaited the awards ceremony at Capital City PCS in their beautiful theater At the end of the year, we host a District tournament where we give away awards to celebrate year long excellence. That will be covered in our
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WUDL Celebrates 2023 National Qualifiers Mallia, Balk, Villaflor, and Birnstad qualified to represent WUDL at the UDNC in 2023. All went to Capital City together in Middle School and have been members of the Travel Team for 3+ years WUDL is an education first organization. The research behind Urban Debate shows that participation, not wins
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