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Happy New Year from the Yellow Springs High & McKinney Middle School Team!

We hope that you can join us for the 3rd Annual Yellow Springs Fearless Forensic Festival -- a Middle/High School Speech & Debate Tournament -- on Saturday, January 30th. To support your students in preparing for Districts and States, all speech & debate events will be synchronous.

We are offering all OSDA events (except Policy Debate) for middle & high school with 4 Rounds for IE and 5 Rounds for debate; there will be 3+ hours of Congressional Debate divided across 3 sessions. Double and triple entry are only by special permission. Note that we will be using the January Public Forum resolutions this year. Also, for MS Congress we are using MS-1, 2, 3, 5, and 11 and for HS Congress it is the OSDA docket for January 30th.

Sadly, we could not come up with a viable way to share Ha Ha Pizza, Young's Ice Cream and our potluck community with you virtually, but we are providing awesome signature bamboo medallions for the Top 6 in each category. We also have team sweepstakes awards for middle school as well as small and large high schools, and a team spirit trophy -- so get your Zoom backgrounds ready!

The YS Speech & Debate Team is committed to ensuring a safe atmosphere of mutual respect and prohibits all forms of harassment and discrimination. This year, the YS Fearless Forensic Festival will implement best practices recommended by competitors, OSDA and NSDA. This includes highlighting implicit bias during judge meetings, raising awareness about pronoun use, designating an Equity Officer to manage complaints/concerns, and any other policies or procedures that can be reasonably employed.

So, pull out your favorite tie-dye apparel & peace sign jewelry and join us for a great speech & debate experience with our "Welcoming Village" - Everyone's Favorite Place!

Please contact me via brianhoush@gmail.com or 937-776-9566 if you have any questions. Make checks payable to Yellow Springs Schools (420 East Enon, Yellow Springs, OH 45387). We can also arrange online payments via PayPal.

Have a great day!

Brian Housh & Cindy Sieck

YS Speech & Debate Coaches