IDEA TPS Global Debates: Participation Has Its Privileges

For Spring Point Leaders Only: IDEA is offering 4 Youth Forum Fee Waivers to the international school that is top point winner of the spring campaign!

* The schools listed above are now eligible to win a free trip to the United Nations TPS event in New York City.

Did your school do something extraordinary for the Global Debates?

Let IDEA know!

alathrop@idebate.org

IDEA is offering you a chance to earn something extra when you participate in the TPS Global Debates. The UNF is holding a Global Debate contest, with a grand prize trip in July of 2008 to the United Nations in New York for six international (non-American) schools. Your school could be one of the lucky six. To enter the Global Debate Contest and to earn UNF points, be sure your school is properly registered at: http://globaldebates.thepeoplespeak.org/tpsgdform.asp.

On your way to the UNF grand prize, you can earn also an array of prizes from IDEA. All international schools that register in the UNF Global Debate contest AND also register on IDEA’s DebateTracker will get greater value for their UNF points earned, because IDEA is offering a points-for-prizes trade-in.

IDEA member NGOs can also share in the prizes in two basic ways. One, all IDEA member NGOs that recruit ten or more schools to participate in the TPS Global Debates will receive a special award. Two, when schools that register on DebateTracker indicate their chief association with your NGO, then your NGO earns the equivalent number of points that each of their registered schools earn.

Want To Learn – and Earn – More? Keep on Reading!

What is the TPS Global Debate Contest?

The People Speak Global Debates

In March of 2008, The People Speak will hold a global debate contest. Young debaters must research the selected topic and prepare clear, persuasive arguments for both sides of the issue. Then, debate teams need to organize an event at their school that will attract a large audience of students, who can watch the teams present their debate. In other words, the audience of students will become judges; they need to decide which team makes a stronger case in the debate. All of the students who watch the debate will vote for the team that they believe won the debate. The votes will be counted and the results will appear on the TPS site in early November.

The Second Global Debate Motion

March 2008: Let it be resolved! Water should be considered national property.

Time Frame: Debate teams must organize debates at their schools within the following days: All ballots and activities for points must be submitted by May 15th.

Debate Preparation and Curriculum Help

Debate Help for the Water Topic

Debate clubs and their schools can find useful resources through the official TPS site (www.thepeoplespeak.org) and through the International Debate Education Association (IDEA) site (www.idebate.org). Teachers may find such resources especially useful and include them as a part of their regular curriculum to teach students about a variety of issues, including, but not limited to the following:

• The ecological effect of carbon emissions.
• The value of environmental responsibility.
• The tension between balancing environmental responsibility with economic growth or stability.
• Differing approaches (market or regulatory) to controlling carbon emissions.
• Differences between motivations from and the effectiveness (strengths and weaknesses) of economic forces and motivations from governmental enforcement.
• The chemistry of carbon emissions.
• The value of debating issues from both sides, in order to understand an issue, and in order to reach a solution.

How To Earn UNF Points

Each TPS Global Debate activity listed in the UNF chart earns you a certain number of points. Those schools with the highest number of points are eligible to win the grand prize, a team trip to the UN in New York.

The actual UNF point chart is included in the Global Debates Toolkit.

UNF Registration

UNF Point System Reminder

Each school will receive a four-digit ID number when they register for the Global Debate Contest. You need to make sure that this number is included in all of your submissions, so that your school will receive points for all relevant activities. All online forms will require you to include your ID number. If you forget your number, please contact info@thepeoplespeak.org.

Grand Prize: A Trip to the United Nations!

Each participating international (outside of the United States) high school (grades 9 to 12) is eligible for one of six trips to the July 2008 United Nations Foundation (UNF) Student Youth Summit at the United Nations in New York. A great and prestigious opportunity for schools around the world, those schools which earn the most points can send one of their debate teams to the United Nations.

The trip will cover the cost of a four student debate team with two adult chaperones/teachers to travel to New York for the UN summit. Held in New York, in July 2008, this four-day event is an amazing opportunity to meet UN officials, to learn more the UN, to meet experts in the areas related to the debate topics, and to participate in unique activities, including a special UN tour! Make your school and your country proud, become one of the six international schools to earn the most UNF Global Debate points and you can go to the UN!

Note: Individual winners are responsible for securing visas, as required by international law.

Deadlines

For the Fall Global Debate, you must submit all of the documentation of your activities to the UNF by November 30th, 2007. For the Spring Global Debate, you must submit all of the documentation of your activities to the UNF by April 30th, 2008.

Should you have any questions, please email any of these addresses:

tps@idebate.org
jmotiejunaite@idebate.org
dshemby@idebate.org
mzaleski@idebate.org
alathrop@idebate.org

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