What is Speech and Debate?
For those of you parents wondering what you (or your kids) have gotten themselves into you have nothing to worry about! Speech and Debate is a wonderful opportunity to get to know people from all over Wyoming, develop public speaking skills, learn to argue both sides of an issue, inspire self-confidence, compete, work in a professional atmosphere, and have an awesome time doing it! Many people have a misconception of what Speech and Debate really is. Some imagine kids in business suits giving speeches in rooms all weekend. While certain aspects like Extemporaneous Speaking, Student Congress, and various debate events do support this image to a certain extent, the other half, Interpretive Speech, is a lot like theater on an individual level. Some people will argue for hours the difference between SPEECH and ACTING but the basic principles are the same. Kids in interpretive speech find a script, cut it down to be somewhere between 5-10 minutes (depending on what event theyre doing), memo
