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The Speech and Debate Team participates in a minimum of eight forensics events: policy debate, Lincoln-Douglas debate, dramatic interpretation, humorous interpretation, duo interpretation, extemporaneous speaking, impromptu speaking, and original oratory. These are Freshman (novice), JV, and Varsity level competitions with the opportunity to letter after the first year. The team competes in and around Atlanta as well as throughout the state. Due to overwhelming interest in participation, attendance at competitions is first come, first serve.

Requirements for membership: serious, year-long time commitment, participation in tournaments and fundraisers
Dues: fees per tournament will vary from $20-50

Why Debate?
Debate is strongly correlated with academic achievement, involving extemporaneous speaking, formal training in logic and extensive research using resources typically reserved for post-graduate work; consequently, it is widely recognized as one of the premier academic extra-curricular activities available in high school. Former high school debaters include constitutional law professor Lawrence Tribe, former Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers, Republican political strategist Karl Rove, Senator and 2004 Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry, editor of the Washington Quarterly Alex Lennon as well as plethora of academics and practioners in both the public and private sector.

MEETINGS: Thursdays immediately after school in 305.

2004-2005 in Review

The team has steadily increased in both size and success since its inception at the beginning of the high school. Some major successes this year included:

The four-person team of Paurush Babbar, Stefan Jiang, David Zhou and Sanjay Challa finished 2nd in the Georgia High School Association (GHSA) public policy debate championship for the AAAA/AAAAA divisions.
The two-person team of Paurush Babbar and Stefan Jiang as well as the team of Sanjay Challa and David Zhou qualified for the All-State public policy debate championship (across all GHSA divisions).
Paurush Babbar and Stefan Jiang finished 2nd in the All-State public policy debate championship (across all GHSA divisions).
John An and Jonathan Yan finished 1st in the Georgia Forensic Coaches Association Novice and Junior Varsity public policy debate championship.

2003-2004 in Review
Northview Debate Team Scores 6 Trophies At Tournament

The Northview High School Novice, Junior Varsity and Varsity Debate teams combined their efforts at the recent “Brookwood High School Maroon & Gold Classic Forensics Tournament”in Snellville to bring home six trophies and 3 plaques for their outstanding performances. Individual trophy recipients were varsity team members Nafees Syed for the Lincoln-Douglas competition and Jessica Falcone for the Extemporaneous Speaking competition. The Novice Policy Debate teams of Gene Kim/Ivana Mao and Harry Li/Karl Guo earned team trophies as did the Varsity Policy Debate teams of Seong An/David Zhou and Paurush Babbar/Stefan Jiang. Individual Speaker Award plaques were won by Harry Li and Ivana Mao in the Novice Division and by Stefan Jiang in the Varsity Division.
Faculty sponsor Jay Blanton says he was particularly proud of the performance of the Novice team of Vibin Kundukulam/Mimi Li who, due to restrictions on the number of teams that could be entered at each of the 3 levels (Varsity, JV and Novice), found themselves stepping up to compete in the JV category in their very first tournament ever, where they went 3-2 in the preliminary rounds.