Student News & Events

WUDL Moves 1/11 Qualifiers Online, Reschedules for Spring Bobby (left, Eliot Hine) and Jack (right, Hardy) qualified to Nationals last year with 8th grade partners. Now it’s their turn to lead and see if they can qualify with their new partners The weather outside was frightful, but still being able to have our qualifiers was

WUDL Winter Classic Provides Final Tune-Up Before National Qualifiers Cardozo’s Debate Team formed the first week of November, and went to their first tournament two weeks later, with both teams winning a round. This weekend, three weeks later, Roxana / Steven (above) and Elijah / Evelyn went 2-1. They now are preparing to compete to

BASIS DC’s Schmidt / Applegate earn a bid to the Tournament of Champions Jack and Margaret also won the most recent local tournament at John Francis Education Campus Debate is a powerful academic intervention, with more data than you can shake a stick at showing how impactful it can be on student grades, test scores,

Novices Take Center Stage @ Northrop Thanksgiving Throwdown Leadership Award Winners Claire (Academy of Health Sciences) Myrnal (Creative Minds), and Sally (Eliot Hine) are recognized at the start of the awards ceremony. This is a new award, recognizing students for their contributions to their teams, not just their competitive talents. Over the last two weekends,

Fall Elementary Competition A Big Hit! Bruce Monroe’s Gabriela and Makenna won their school’s first trophies this Fall “My daughter was so eager to participate in this event, which is out of character for her. She was then so nervous the day of she almost didn’t want to go. Then once she did it, she

WUDL Students Advance to Bid Round @ Urban Debate Dragon Invitational WUDL and the Boston Urban Debate League gathered to prepare together at the Mt. Pleasant Library before the tournament. It seemed to have helped, with lots of award winners from both leagues! Qualifying tournaments to the Tournament of Champions are usually held on college

White & Case Invitational Soars As New Teams Debut Vampire Tunde, pictured here with Senca Valley’s Ayaan and Mathias, helped out with awards this past weekend, including a touching tribute to WUDL Director David Trigaux as part of our 10th year anniversary celebrations. Two weeks ago, we celebrated as Marcus from Forest Park was the

WUDL Season Opener Bigger Than Ever Forest Park won a lot of trophies this past weekend, including 1st place and top speaker in Novice by Marcus and Kobe (right) We are so excited to get back to debating this season. Students are confronting a heady topic about intellectual property rights, discussing issues from patenting human

3rd Annual I-Resolve Public Debate Packs Planet Word with civic energy and great speeches The 3rd Annual I-Resolve DC Public Debate was the biggest and best yet, hosted downtown at Planet Word, a new museum dedicated to linguistics and showcasing the power of the written and spoken word. “Those two speeches would be in the

WUDL Travel Team Shines @ Georgetown Day Invitational The Neuroth Siblings (and Coach Clarke), Ajani Siblings (and Coach Bah) along with Jess, Mac, and BASIS’s Sitara (not pictured, Daniella) with their trophies from GDS The GDS Grasshopper Invitational is the kick off of WUDL’s Travel Team schedule, usually featuring folks who were in the most