Welcome to the MIT Debate Team! We are a member institution of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, and compete regularly on the circuit.

DONATIONS:

Giving to the MIT Debate Team

RESULTS:

Congratulations to Kathleen Clark-Adams and Sharmin Karim for finishing as 1st place team at the Brown Tournament!

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Refer to the 2009-2010 APDA Schedule for more upcoming tournaments.

RECENT EVENTS:

Brown University

11/13-14/09, Rhode Island

Northeastern University

11/06-07/09, Massachusetts

ABOUT US:

We hold weekly meetings on Tuesdays at 8pm on the third floor of Walker, on the river side (50-306). On most weekends, we attend tournaments at various other colleges in the Northeast, occasionally flying out to schools like Stanford. We even go abroad, to such tournaments as the Worlds University Debating Championship, the North American Championships, and the Oxford and Cambridge Intervarsities. In 2008, Worlds was held in Cork, Ireland, and NorthAms in Amherst, MA.

The benefits of joining the debate team include learning and practicing efficient and persuasive public speaking, discussing any and every topic you can think of, all-expenses paid trips to other schools, meeting fantastic people from said schools, running the MIT tournament, etc.etc. The downside is spending various Friday nights and Saturdays away from the MIT campus (but hey, that can be a benefit also).

To join, just come to a meeting! For more information about how membership works, see the FAQ.

You may also contact our 2009-2010 exec board, or any of us individually, at the following e-mail addresses:

President:    Kathleen Clark-Adams    katclar@mit.edu
VP of Finance:    Kavya Joshi    kavya@mit.edu
VP of Tournaments:    Danielle Gorman    dgorman@mit.edu
VP of Membership:    Kelsey Kennedy    kelseyk@mit.edu
Member at Large:    Sharmin Karim    sharmink@mit.edu
Webmaster:    Ndubisi Onuora    ndonuora@mit.edu
Exec Board:         debate-request@mit.edu