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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Phelps High School Hosts Debate Tournament Originally Scheduled March 2020 Phelps High School has a huge central atrium with lots of natural light through the middle of the school. We filled it with debaters “The most energy and joy I’ve experienced in a good bit” — WUDL volunteer judge from this weekend’s tournament Coach Komlo
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Banneker Novices Tie WUDL Record with Semi-Final Finish at Pennsbury Falcon Invitational Students from Banneker, BASIS DC, Capital City, Cardozo, CMIT North, DuVal, Flowers, Hardy, Phelps, and Stuart Hobson attended the 2023 Pennsbury Falcon Invitational It was 13 degrees after the wind chill on Friday, but thankfully, we were able to gather Capital City’s warm
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WUDL Winter Classic Kicks Off National Qualifiers WUDL Alumni Paris Smalley (rear) hands out trophies during the awards cerremony This might sound familiar from our last post: A week after our second road trip in 32 months, we hosted the WUDL Winter Classic, the first regular season tournament of 2023 and kicked off our National
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WUDL Travel Team Brings Home Trophies from Lexington Winter Invitational Students from Banneker, BASIS DC, Capital City, Creative Minds, EL Haynes, Hardy, Oyster Adams, Phelps, and School Without Walls plus WUDL alumni and coaches at the 2023 Lexington Winter Invitational Students gathered outside of BASIS DC around lunchtime on Friday, Jan 13th, and eventually got
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