Advisor(S): rhodesc@npschools.org, hookwaya@npschools.org
Purpose: Speech and Debate exists to help students develop critical thinking skills. Students will learn to develop the ability to communicate ideas and opinions defending them with logic, evidence, and persuasion. Benefits include improved test scores, classroom performance, confidence, and making lifelong connections.
Follow in the academic footsteps of successful people such as President John F. Kennedy, Justice Antonin Scalia, John Wayne, Tom Brokaw, Oprah Winfrey, Brad Pitt, Lee Iacocca, and Stephen Colbert (among many others)
Practices are Monday and Thursday from 3-5.