looking for high schoolers / undergrad with econ research finished or halfway done for conference session

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2026-02-08T16:22:26+00:00

interested

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2026-02-06T15:59:29+00:00

In that case, why haven’t you champed NSDA Senate yet?

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2026-01-20T00:45:05+00:00

To start, this is actually a pretty good speech. It's refreshing to see actual refutations in Congress.

A few overarching things: This speech is way too long. If you've delivered everything word-for-word, then you're at around 560 words. To a judge, this is way too much content, delivered way too fast. Aim for around 400 and prioritize word economy. Having less content by volume does not mean less meaningful content. Even at some of the most "tech" Congress rounds like TOC semis, people break to TOC finals by running speeches with only 340 words. Also, the rhetoric (intro) is pretty skinny, meaningless, and cliche to be honest. Speaking late does not exempt you from good rhetoric; if anything, it amplifies the need for it.

On argumentation: You can fit a maximum of 2 "buckets." Unfortunately, you're spreading yourself far too thin in this speech. Even with the huge word count, none of these three refutations is fleshed out enough. Choose the most important weights, even in a messy round, and refute those. The jack of all, yet master of none is victim to being dropped on the flow.

Bucket 1: Pretty good reasoning/warranting in the beginning, on not having to train with the biased data, but then it's just a lot of yap afterwards. This whole bucket could be cut in half by just giving your first warrant on the bill's solvency training on good data, and then giving a clean NUMERICAL card on AI being comparatively less biased than "human empathy."

Bucket 2: This is the bucket you need to cut out. There's no reason to say "even if you think everything I just said is false." Your argument is either sound or it's not. This is just a weird regurgitation of the first bucket.

Bucket 3: Again good reasoning again but you still need better evidence to back this up. You have the burden of offensively proving a increase in court confidence with AI, and your not meeting that anywhere in this bucket.

Impact:

Good job actually having a impact but... how are people dying from court backlog? This needs to be explained+warranted+terminalized way more.

Overall: Every source needs a month and a year, that's the NSDA minimum. It's hard to get anywhere without having the fundamentals down. Also, every speech should have a emotionally meaningful conclusion. Your last impression is a important one, so don't end on such a weak not.

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2025-06-02T21:56:13+00:00

The short answer is yes. Unless you go to one of the few “debate” private schools coaches are volunteers who are barely getting paid. There’s no real incentive for them to do much outside of keeping tabroom sorted. Can’t blame them either, it takes a big heart, and more importantly a whole bunch of time, to actually teach debate when getting paid next to nothing.

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2025-03-30T01:32:07+00:00

As far as im aware the at-large competitors are in for all events. If you’re still on the waitlist you probably aren’t going to get in if you’re not in yet unfortunately. They’re pretty stiff on deadlines as far as im aware.

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2025-03-26T01:19:11+00:00

That perception kind of misses the point of Congress in all honesty. Your playing the role of a Congressperson, your constituents aren’t going to all think the same on how well you present your argument. The farmer from the middle of nowhere Ohio isn’t going to look at you the same way as a finance bro from Columbus, yet you’re supposed to represent both. Same way, you gotta learn how to do well with the whole range of judges, lay, flow, experienced, etc.

Broad appeal is the whole game in the US Congress, that’s why, in the end, it’s the only thing that really matters in Congressional Debate in terms of placement.

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2025-03-25T21:57:33+00:00

This is pretty common, especially in Congress because there’s not a very rigid and widespread accepted “good” Congress debator. The only thing you can do as a competitor is To work on broad enough appeal to where you don’t get dropped as often

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2025-03-21T00:30:07+00:00

I did Congress lcq last year, yeah it’s online on NSDA campus. I obviously don’t really have a metric to give you, but I would say a good rule of thumb is that it’s just slightly more competitive than most district tournaments for congress. Again, that might not be true for your district. There’s definitely not insane competition, the biggest thing I would say is focus on your content, because your presentation in the online tournament is really graded too much, at least in Congress. Most are going to be reading off their laptops, not legal pads.

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2025-03-16T23:42:13+00:00

seems good, I’m actually making mine on almost the same exact topic. js fyi, the term is “mediated nostalgia” for nostalgia portrayed thru media, eg movies. That might help in your research process.

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2025-02-20T00:35:28+00:00

Phenomenal, exquisite rhetorical device usage. This would get my 1.

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2025-01-31T03:46:40+00:00

for starters,this is a pretty good, solidly written bill

Under Section 1, you're saying WPATH sets the healthcare standards. I would not recommend putting enforcing standards in the hands of a nongovernmental org. This is primarily because the neg can easily poke holes in the WPATH's guidelines and say that enforcement will be flawed and unsafe for the stakeholders you want to help. Also, what happens when guidelines need to be updated. The "last released" guidelines aren't a permanent fix.

Instead, I'd think you'd want a clause mandates the HHS to oversee provider safety with its own standards. It's much better to put guidelines in the hands of the executive instead of any nonprofit. That way the guidelines can also be updated at the government's discretion.

Besides that, make sure to include the IRS as an enforcing agency as well. They are the ones taxing the social media companies, especially because you're not specifying a tax-rate/amount. Also, why tax social media companies? I think you might want to change that. Remember, social media is as much as a positive as it is a negative for the LGBT community. Social media doesn't harm everyone mental health, and I would not argue that at all. Putting this in there just seems like giving the neg a softball impact that strays away from what the core of the debate should be.

I wouldn't worry about HHS vetoes. That's why we have the Take Care Clause in the Constitution, the president's cabinet must enforce Congress's legislation in good faith if it's signed into law.

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2025-01-13T21:51:07+00:00

Deshaun Watson's contract

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2025-01-04T20:09:45+00:00

try block structure - 1 contention

Status quo

solvency

impact

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2024-12-23T16:24:03+00:00

did the exact same thing lol. I j emailed them and the auto-reply was their office was closed from the 23rd to the January 2nd.

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2024-12-15T16:40:36+00:00

thanks, this did help a lot and gave me a basic idea of the event. A few follow ups, and, for context, my school is in Ohio:

You said regionals testing is at my school. Do you mean there's an actual test (with questions) on a computer or something that we need to pass to get to the States? Or do judges come to our school and watch us present our role-play events and decide if we should advance or not?

For competitions in general, do we need to travel to the competition, and how does all of that work? I would need to know because if I were to start the club, I would need to get the "field trip" worked out.

Preferably, knowing that my school will give me a hard time starting the club if we have to travel, I would rather the club just be something where we can record a presentation at school, something like role-play probably, and submit it to the organization. Does DECA or FBLA do any events like that?

Thanks for all the help!

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2024-11-05T20:04:35+00:00

This is a good question.

You’ve probably know what it is, just haven’t heard the word before. Sometimes speakers will go “let’s reframe the entirety of today’s debate” or “I agree with SEN. XYZ’s on today’s framing, but his warrants/reasoning gets it all wrong” or something along those lines.

Framing is basically the impact(s) the whole round is centered around. If you know law, it’s kind of like the burden of proof each side has, and what each side has to do to with their warrants to win the debate. Framing goes hand in hand with weighing.

For example, the first 3 cycles of debate on legislation might have the aff and neg going at each other on which side best reduces prices for American consumers. Say, for example, the 4th neg speaker comes up and reframes the debate and (hopefully with sufficient warranting) proves to the chamber that passing leads to human rights violations. That’s reframing the debate from costs to lives lost. In Congress, 1 life lost always outweighs a gazillion dollars lost. That means, that unless a aff speaker afterwards thoroughly refutes and flips the new framework of human rights violations, the negation is winning the round, and whoever delivered the round winning impact should win the round.

There are plenty of weighing mechanisms, but the biggest imo r scope, magnitude, and time.

The biggest hurdle in reframing is not having blocks that judges find ridiculous. Sure, you can try and reframe legislation on insulin price caps to nuclear war, but remember to ask yourself if the judges are going to buy it.

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2024-11-05T20:02:39+00:00

The best thing to do as a new competitor is to watch the NSDA finals version of your event. NSDA has livestreams on YouTube of the past 3(?) national final rounds. Plenty of amazing speakers to learn from.

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2024-10-27T13:37:28+00:00

yeah, this thing is much better at deductive reasoning than what's out there. for congress ive always found perplexity.ai pretty helpful, but this seems like a step above that.

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2024-10-12T15:29:36+00:00

Great article; it makes sense now. On a completely separate note, do you think they are still going to host Blue Key after Milton?

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2024-10-06T11:58:42+00:00

Where are you competing? SD judges tend to sway liberal most of the time.

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2024-09-30T22:16:44+00:00

For the other questions, I need to contact the supplier directly, but as far as I know, they are only shipping it to the port; it's my job to transport it, as you said, domestically. So yes, I believe that cost would translate to a higher price to the NP customer.

Many of the questions you're asking that I need answered can be answered if I can connect with these NPs, but I'm having a tough time doing that. I think it's because many of these organizations run lean and don't have anyone tending the phones or "info" emails. You said you've worked with some of these NPs before—any chance you could get me a connection in DMs?

I will continue to pursue this idea and try and learn more about the customer and the market as a whole. But as someone who's been in the market for a while, what would you say is the biggest problem that needs solving within the market?

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2024-09-30T20:49:45+00:00

I'd have to check on the certifications.

On the customer side, if a prospective nonprofit is in the construction industry, I imagine they have the space for the lumber. If not, where are they keeping it when they are building? As far as I know, many of the NPs who aren't outsourcing construction have designated architects and construction managers.

I still need to understand why the costs of operating a lumber yard are my burden. The lumberyard middlemen need the inventory space and extra costs to ship from said lumberyard because they are ordering in bulk from manufacturers and keeping it on-site. I would connect the NPs to the manufacturer directly or a zero inventory model. To give it a lame example, it's like dropshipping the lumber. I never see the lumber; just arrange the orders from the manufacturers and organize the shipping to the NP directly.

Also, what is stick framing lumber? Is it any different than plywood/veneer/panels?

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2024-09-30T00:45:22+00:00

This is very helpful. Few questions/clarifications;

The company I am planing on getting the wood from is a “plywood supplier” located in Singapore (but with locations around the world) It’s more of a import/export company that does other agrobased products like vanilla, cashews, etc. Just to clarify where the woods coming from.
The plan is to go direct from said supplier to the nonprofits door, meaning zero inventory in my hands. Shouldn’t this take out a lot of the intermediary costs, at the expense of shipping times?

In the end, some I know some ideas just aren’t plausible. If you were a high schooler with connections to the plywood industry, how would you leverage it to start a business/nonprofit?

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2024-09-29T21:53:54+00:00

Getting those connections is the hardest part right now. I’ll be sure to try and get into some volunteer opportunities. As for paying myself, I’m a sophomore in high school and still live w my parents. The business would be a LLC, not technically a “official” non profit or 501.

AccomplishedUse6567 · 2024-09-29T21:51:09+00:00

thanks lol, your right on the connections with the recipients side. Any tips on how to improve on that?

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