Announcing the Fall Incubate Topics
I am thrilled to announce the two topics for our ‘Incubate.Fall’ tournaments.
This Fall, Incubate students will be debating two important questions:
Should the ‘1994 Assault Weapons Ban’ be re-enacted?
Should the U.S. continue using armed military drones?
These two topics require students to research, formulate, and present arguments on issues that impact Americans at home and American policy abroad.
At Incubate, we believe that “debate should be easy to learn and hard to master.” These topics offer the right mix of accessibility and rigor for new and returning students. On July 15, we’ll share the research packet for our Incubate.Fall topics. On August 1, we’ll share the dates for the 24-25 Incubate regional tournaments and the 2025 Incubate Debate National Championship.
We’ll soon share our biggest news yet: Incubate is going national. Our Incubate.USA Chapter Initiative will invite Americans passionate about free speech and open debate to stand up their own Incubate chapters, where local middle and high school students will compete using Incubate’s topics, formats, and guidelines. At the end of the season, each chapter’s top students will earn the opportunity to represent their chapters at our 2025 National Championship.
Our mission is to “teach young Americans the power and practice of debate.” What started in Florida with 16 students in the summer of 2019 will soon impact students from all corners of this great country.
I want to thank our incredible Incubate team—Keinah, Madison, Yurit, Joshua, Lawence, Matthew, and Isabel—for working hard to prepare for what will be our largest, most active season yet. I also want to thank Eric Rosenfeld, Bob Zeidman, Cassandra Crifasi, Kathleen Harrah, Kevin F. O’Shea, Carla Albano, Todd Field, Reid Swayze, Christine Selover, Cheryl Blomstrom, and Chris Slick for their feedback on our fall topics.
The best is yet to come! Let’s Make Debate Great Again.
The weapons resolution- is terribly biased. In college - CEDA- we actually debated the second amendment now thats a real topic. Thats unbiased. Assault weapons aren’t even a real thing. To put it in a highschool debate level resolution just shows how far left debate and k-12 has come nationally unfortunately. Most resolutions these days are indoctrination tactics not real debate topics. Its doing these students a big disservice. The supreme court has already effectively on this multiple times anyway. How about this instead…Universal background checks in gun sales will effectively strengthen the second amendment to the constitution and American citizens right to own and protect their family and household. https://universe.byu.edu/2020/11/09/the-scope-of-the-argument-why-the-second-amendment-matters/