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2024 NSS University spUN Debate Program
Topic outline
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NSS presents the 2023 University spUN Debate Program, inviting university students worldwide to join a debate team. This is a 100% virtual opportunity!
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You can find the recordings of the individual preliminary debates in attached file below.
For the Final Debates, both University and High School Levels, please go to NSS Facebook or NSS YouTube
NSS 2023 spUN University and High School
Preliminary Debate Tournament Video Links can be found in the attached file.(also found on SpacEdge.Academy YouTube)
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The recordings document the double elimination 2023 University Virtual spUN Debates.
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National Space Society hosts the 2024 University spUN Debates!
(Updated 7/22/23)
Author: Frances Dellutri, NSS Dir. of Education, spUN Debate Program Manager
Jordan Strudwick, NSS University spUN Debates Program Manager
Summary:
The 2024 University spUN (space policy and UNiversalization) Debates will mark the third year of the university level debates.
The 2024 spUN Debate Program is 100% virtual and brings together teams of 3 debaters (university age) from all around the world to investigate and present the pros and cons of a resolution on space policy issues while learning to value different perspectives, cultures, and languages.
The format is based on the Worlds School Debate Format and teams debate in a double-elimination program with the final debate live-streamed from the National Space Society (NSS) International Space Development Conference from Los Angeles, CA, USA on Saturday, May 25, 2024.
spUN University Applicants must be enrolled in a university/college during January - May, 2024.
More information will be available on this website. To find out a bit about universalization and its connection to debating space policy take a look at the 3 minute video below:
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2024 spUN University Format
World Schools Debate Championship Format
Prop – Proposition Opp - Opposition
Sequence
Explanation
Time
Prop Team, Speaker 1
Proposition 1
8 min
Opp Team, Speaker 1
Opposition 1
8 min
Prop Team, Speaker 2
Proposition 2
8 min
Opp Team, Speaker 2
Opposition 2
8 min
Prop Team, Speaker 3
Proposition 3
8 min
Con Team, Speaker 3
Opposition 3
8 min
Opp Team, Speaker 1 or 2
Opposition Reply
4 min
Prop Team, Speaker 1 or 2
Reply to Opposition Reply
4 min
Total Time
56 min
POI (Point of Information) may be offered by the opposing team between minutes 1 and 7 of the speech. The speaker may accept or decline a POI, but speakers are expected to accept two POI’s during their speech.
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The format is based on World Schools Debates Championships (WSDC) and attached is the scoring rubric for that format that will be used in the wowe spUN Debate Tournament.
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The spUN Debates began in 2017 at the National Space Society's International Space Development Conference in St. Louis, MO, USA. Dr. LJ Edmonds gave a presentation to international students on the topic of universalization, a concept for cooperation and living that will greatly impact space development. Several students and a teacher engaged in an animated discussion of the impacts universalization could have on space settlement but also on how we successfully and harmoniously move forward in Earthly policies and interactions!
Here are some videos that resulted from the subsequent spUN Debate Tournaments (pre-COVID-19) in 2018 and 2019. The first video is an overview of the 2018 H.S. debates...
Please take a moment to see the impact the study of the universalization concept made on the student debaters.
...and the second video talks about the practicalities of space living and governing and, how to buy chocolate in space!
The next video is from a podcast in which Dr. Lorna Jean Edmonds was interviewed by Starcast about the universalization concept. This concept is
very important in our debates, both to see the concept in the debate arguments, and also as a guide in the conduct of everyone in the NSS spUN Debate Organization.
We hope these resources will you help you to frame the future of our world!