POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL

POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL

Polytechnic Debate offers students the challenge of competing against other outstanding secondary school students nationally in Policy and Lincoln-Douglas format debates. Poly Debate has established a tradition of excellence and awards including numerous participants in the State and National Championships.

The program is open to any interested student regardless of experience and requires after school research, weekly meetings plus practice rounds on the weekends. Tournament competition may involve travel and the team has competed recently at events in Arizona, Oregon, Nevada, Texas, Kansas and Illinois. Debate develops critical thinking, public speaking, research skills and public policy analysis.

Forensics is seen as an asset for future work in law, politics, education and business. Many colleges also host debate programs and may offer scholarship aid to active members. Interested students are encouraged to attend any lunch meeting at Polytechnic and learn more about this challenging, exciting and rewarding co-curriculum experience at Poly.

Melan Jaich
Debate Coach
mjaich@scu.edu

Tournament	Date
Las Vegas	9-2006	Policy: Miller/Sander - Prelims Also, kudos to Steven Sander and Kyle Miller for just missing the elims at Las Vegas losing to a tough Utah team their break round. Cheers to Raymond Jimenez for running anarchy successfully.
USC California Cup	11-5-2006 USC	Policy: Bowen/Matt (Novice) - Double Octofinals Liza/Jackson - Octofinals Congrats to the team of Bowen and Matt for advancing to Double-Octofinals at USC at their first tournament! Also, kudos to the team of Liza and Jackson for going 5-1 in prelims and advancing to the Octofinals. Lisa also received a Speaker Award. Great job all!
Damien	11-12-2006 Damien School	Policy: Sander/Miller - Semifinals Jiang/Stringfellow - Prelims LD: Elizabeth Dervan - Semifinals Stephen Wu - Prelims Raymond Jimenez - Prelims Cheers to Elizabeth Dervan for advancing to the Semifinals at the Damien HS Tournament last weekend. Kudos also to Stephen Wu and Raymond Jimenez for missing on Speaker Points from advancing. Also, a hearty high five to the team of Steven Sander and Kyle Miller for advancing in senior division to semifinals in policy debate plus the team of Kevin Jiang and Stevie Stringfellow for missing on points. Mr. Miller alsotook 4th Speaker and Mr. Sander took 9th Speaker overall. Michael Szeto also won a special award for his ballots.
Northridge	12-3-2006 CSU Northridge	Policy: Sander/Miller - Quarterfinals Anand/Matt (Novice) - Quarterfinals Great job at CSUN. Kudos to Kyle and Steven for going 5-1 and getting to Quarterfinals along with the novice team of Matt and Anand. Matt and Anand were 5-1 in novice division. Steven also took top speaker in varsity division with Matt and Anand also getting speaker awards.
Fullerton	1-5-2007 CSU Fullerton	Policy: Jiang/Stringfellow - Octofinals Anand/Matt (Novice) - 2nd Place LD: Zoe Munoz (Novice) - Octofinals Nathan Min (Novice) - 3 wins, 3 losses Zoe in Novice LD advanced to octas and was First Place Speaker at the tournament. Nathan went 3-3 in Novice LD and missed advancing on speaker points. Kevin/Stevie went 5-1 in Open Policy debate prelims, 9th seed out of 49. They advanced to Octofinals. Matt/Anand were 4-2 in prelims, Matt was 6th speaker overall at the tournment in Novice team. They were 8th seed out of 32. They advanced to the Final Round of Novice Policy taking 2nd Place!
Disctricts	3-17-2007 Damien School	Policy: Sander/Miller - 1st Place Kevin/Stevie - 3 wins, 2 losses Jackson/Liza - Semifinals Bowen/Matt - 1 win, 2 losses LD: Stephen Wu - 1st Place Zoe Munoz - Semifinals Congrats to Stephen Wu for taking First in Lincoln-Douglas debate at the District Tournament at Damien HS yesterday and qualifying for the National Tournament. Also to Steven Sander and Kyle Miller for tying for First in Policy Debate and qualifying for the National Tournament. Kudos to Jackson and Liza for advancing to Semifinals in Policy and Zoe in Lincoln-Douglas.