Policy Topic (Middle School CX)
Resolved: The United States federal government should significantly increase its exploration and/or development of the Artic.
Novice Policy Packet – Dropbox Folder
Lincoln-Douglas Topics (Middle School LD)
First Semester
Resolved: Violent revolution is a just response to political oppression.
Second Semester
The UDCA is going to align with the Jan/Feb topic (released by the NSDA) for the second semester/State tournament.
Public Forum Topic (Middle School PF)
Resolved: In the United States, the benefits of using generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education outweighs the harms.
This is a new event being offered at State for Middle School students. As a pilot initiative, Public Forum will be offered at State.
Partner Debate Topic (Elementary PD)
Resolved: The benefits of outer space exploration outweigh the harms.
This topic is one of the 3-year rotation topics (repeated indefinitely)
2026-27
Resolved: In the United States, the benefits of increasing organic agriculture outweigh the harms.
2027-28
TBD (either the Artificial Intelligence or Social topic)
Here is a Resource Folder with the evidence cards, lectures, and lesson organization created in 2021 (the last time this topic was debated)
Note that we have changed the name from “PF” to “Partner Debate” at the Elementary level. This will distinguish it from PF norms that exist in high school (an issue observed with student judges) and to delineate it from the PF event being in MS.
Policy Evidence
Novice Policy evidence packet is here! For those of you who are new, Utah debate has a bylaw which sets limits on what arguments are allowed in the novice (beginners) division of Policy (CX) debate. These rules are intended to promote access, parity, and collaboration for one of the most challenging events offered. This packet is the ONLY evidence allowed in novice policy for the first semester.
The evidence is available HERE (Dropbox) or HERE (Google Drive). Both are available for download or online viewing.
- Here are the presentation slides from the ‘session’ at the fall meeting.
- Finally, the NDCA has created Curriculum Resources that you can use when teaching these arguments and the policy format in class.
