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Mission Statement
The National Speech & Debate Association connects, supports, and inspires a diverse community committed to empowering students through speech and debate.
About This Cause
Mission: The National Speech & Debate Association connects, supports, and inspires a diverse community committed to empowering students through speech and debate. Vision: We envision a world in which every school provides speech and debate programs to foster each student’s communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creative skills. What we do: Speech and debate is an academic activity typically available to students in middle school, high school, and/or college. Similar to athletic sports, speech and debate activities are challenging, competitive in nature, and require regular practice, coaching, dedication, and hard work. Speech involves a presentation by one, two, or sometimes a group of students that is judged against a similar type of presentation by others in a round of competition. Speech events range from limited preparation events that require extensive knowledge of current events to dramatic and humorous interpretation, which challenge students to find powerful moments in literature and recreate them for an audience. Debate involves an individual or a team of debaters working to effectively convince a judge that his or her side of a resolution is, as a general principle, more valid. To see what our students are currently debating, visit our Current Topics page. Students in debate come to thoroughly understand both sides of the resolution, having researched each extensively, and learn to think critically about every argument that could be made on each side. Each event in speech and debate features a different form of public speaking and requires a unique skill set and talent. While students often develop a passion for specific events, many compete in multiple categories throughout the course of their academic careers. Learn more about the main competitive events on our website. The National Speech & Debate Association offers a number of programs to help advance participation in speech and debate activities inside and outside of the classroom. From implementing new speech and debate programs to inspiring student leadership, supporting the best student debaters in the United States as they compete across the globe, or creating classroom materials for new teachers, our goal is to provide the tools, resources and support our members need at every level of participation. The National Speech & Debate Association’s honor society recognizes middle school and high school students for participation in speech and debate activities. Students earn distinction through speech and debate competition, as well community service, public speaking, and leadership activities. Members are eligible to join the Honor Society once they have earned the required number of points. Additionally, members of the honor society are held to the Code of Honor, the highest standards of integrity, humility, respect, leadership, and service. These standards have been required of members since the organization was founded in 1925. Over the past 90 years, we've celebrated the achievements of more than 1.5 million alumni.