The spring campaign for the TPS Global Debates starts March 1 and lasts until March 24th. Register your school to participate and win a trip to New York City July of 2008! Register at www.thepeoplespeak.org!
The IDEA International Tournament of Champions for High School Parliamentary Debate Tournament will take place May 15 – 17, 2008, at Willamette University.
IDEA is once again partnering with the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press to lead an American Parliamentary Debate training May 19th-20th at the FLTRP facilities. The training is part of the FLTRP Cup, to be held in Beijing May 18th-25th.
The UN Foundation, IDEA, and the National Forensic League present the UN Youth Leadership Summit, to be held this July 17th-19th in New York City. You can find information about this exciting event at www.thepeoplespeak.org.
Unity in Diversity Exchange has started in Amsterdam. Over 30 participants from the Netherlands, Romania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Lithuania are taking part in the training on Legislative Debate, as well as other exciting debate events.
The training at the Unity in Diversity Exchange is conducted by Veronika Vlckova, IDEA Forum Coordinator, and Marcin Zaleski, IDEA Director of Training and Curriculum.
You can find more information about the event at www.euyouthspeak.org
IDEA is recruiting for a new debate trainer position in South Korea with the Korea Poly School (KPS). KPS is seeking Canadian or US citizens to teach debate to elementary and/or middle school students for at least one academic year at one of their four campuses (Daejeon, Ilsan, Mokdong, or Bundang). Candidates must have a Bachelor’s degree and be willing to work in Korea for one academic year.
You can now take the power of the renowned Debatabase offline! Download this easy to use package and have the power of the database of debate topics, arguments and evidence right on your desktop. Create booklets, print your cases and edit the existing information.
Please note that the Desktop Edition of the Debatabase is still in the beta testing phase. The process of development would benefit tremendously from your feedback - direct it to the developer, Marjan Stojnev.
Current podcasts include news and testimonials from participants in the 2007 Duino Institute and the 2007 IDEA Youth Forum in Trest, Czech Republic, as well as radio stories produced by students during the Citizen Journalism program focusing on everything from dating life in foreign countries to global warming and conflict.
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