2021 Ascend Debate Camp Demo round. Watch some of the best Congressional Debaters in the nation debate on the topic of minimum wage. All of the competitors are coaches at the 2021 Ascend Debate Camp.
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Members in the round: Presiding Officer Sean Allin (California State Champion in Congressional Debate), Hunter Brown (2019 NSDA National Champion in House Congressional Debate), Genevieve Cox (2020 TOC Runner-up in Congressional Debate), Sydney Glickson (2019 NSDA Tournament Congressional Debate 5th place finish), Sara Faraj (2020 TOC Congressional Debate 7th place finish), Gianluca Medigovic (2nd at the Nova Titan in Congressional Debate), Rohit Jhawar (2020 NSDA National Champion in Senate Congressional Debate), Christian Rodriguez (2nd at the New York City Invitational), Ojasvi Saxena (2021 Harvard National Forensics Tournament 3rd place finish), Quest Sandel (Coach of National Champion in Congress), Arjun Mazumdar (Sunvite Champion), and Nirmit Chandan (Two time champion at Yale Invitational in Congressional Debate).
Bill: Raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.
Timestamps
0:00:00- Introduction
0:03:15- Hunter Brown
0:09:57- Genevieve Cox
0:16:13- Sydney Glickson
0:21:27- Sara Faraj
0:26:33- Gianluca Medigovic
0:32:03- Rohit Jhawar
0:37:29- Christian Rodriguez
0:43:03- Ojasvi Saxena
0:48:18- Quest Sandel
0:53:46- Arjun Mazumdar
0:59:00- Nirmit Chandan
1:04:27- Conclusion
Quest Sandel:
Quest Sandel is the Chief Executive Officer of Ascend Speech and Debate. As a coach at John F. Kennedy and James Logan High Schools, he has coached multiple national finalists in Congressional Debate, including the 2019 NSDA Senate National Champion, the Champion of the 2020 Tournament of Champions, the 2020 NSDA Senate Runner-up, the top presiding officer of the 2020 NSDA House, as well as two other NSDA top six placements. His students across events have seen broad success at tournaments across the country, consistently making outrounds and often winning at major tournaments such as the Tournament of Champions, NSDA Nationals, NCFL Nationals, MLK, Harvard, Emory, Blake, Glenbrooks, Stanford, Arizona State, Berkeley, and CHSSA State. His coaching style depends on the idea that effective coaching is a partnership between coach and student where both are committed to the idea of a student achieving their potential both on and off the debate floor. Away from coaching, he also is a leader in the community as he directs Congress at California’s two most prestigious TOC Bid Congress invitationals, the Martin Luther King National Invitational and the Stanford National Invitational. In addition to directing tournaments, he serves with the best Congress coaches in the country on the Tournament of Champions Advisory Committee for Congressional Debate.
Rohit Jhawar:
Rohit is a freshman at UC Berkeley. He has been involved in debate since his freshman year of high school, primarily in Congressional Debate. Most notably, Rohit won the 2019 NSDA tournament in Congressional Debate-Senate and the 2020 Tournament of Champions in Congressional Debate. He is the runner-up of the 2020 NSDA tournament in Congressional Debate-Senate. He also championed the Stanford Invitational and the MLK Invitational, took 2nd at the California State Tournament, took 3rd at the Glenbrooks Invitational, and took 4th at the Tournament of Champions and UC Berkeley Invitational, along with finaling at Blake, ASU, Emory, and more. He has been president of his school team for 3 years, and also coaches debate over the summer. Rohit also competes on the United States national debate team, and he took 3rd place at the 2019 WHO, Europe's largest debate tournament. Rohit believes that debate is all about growing your knowledge base and critical thinking skills-this is simultaneously the most important factor behind debate success and the largest benefit students get from the activity. His primary coaching focuses are honing refutation skills and debate strategy, improving research quality, and working with students individually to fill in content gaps. Rohit contends that the mark of a strong Congressional Debater is not just flowery rhetoric-it’s firm reasoning.
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