Your Voice. Your Value.
Announcements & Reminders
Speech and Debate will meet this year on Tuesdays and Thursdays this year in Brown Hall (Opening Meeting in B318)
Tuesdays and Thursdays: 3:45-5:30
Beginning of Year Reminders
8/30 — Club Fair
9/3 and 9/5 — New Members Info & Practices
9/12 — Parent Info Meeting in Gardenhire Hall, 5:30-6:30
The first tournaments available for new students are Capitol Congress (Weds, 9/18) and East Mountain (Sat, 9/28). All new members are encouraged to register for one or both of these tournaments!
New members should complete the New Member Event Survey ideally before attending their first practice.
All students (new and returning) should complete the Tournament Interest Survey to help us plan ahead for the year.
September Tournaments
9/18 — Capitol Congress (registration due 9/10)
9/28 — East Mountain (registration due 9/18)
9/27-9/30 — LONG BEACH nat circ (applications due 9/2)
What is Speech & Debate?
About Speech & Debate
The Albuquerque Academy Speech & Debate Team offers a unique, engaging, and safe environment to practice art, advocacy, and argumentation.
Speech & Debate is where you go to scream “ORC, ORC, ORC” at 7AM on a Saturday, to eat too much pizza, to learn how federal funding and initiatives impact our daily lives, to fight for justice within your community, and to create art about the human you are and the human you hope to be.
Speech & Debate is a team. A family. A community. A home.
Learn more about the events offered to find the best way to amplify your voice.
Beyond Competition
Speech & Debate is an academic team, but, we are also so much more than that. We connect students to a community of incredible life-long learners with a similar vision in a network stretching nation-wide.
Outside of regular practice and weekend tournaments, the team also engages in monthly social events, a back-to-school celebration, a winter gathering, and a spring banquet. We support each other in and out of competition and show up for one another in our other pursuits. We believe that Speech & Debate is but one part of a person’s interests and passions, and we seek to use our time in the activity to magnify those skills and interests.
