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September SEDA Season Starts & Registration Information
Saskatchewan Elocution and Debate Association
Yorkton Speech and Debate Workshop
Yorkton Workshop The Yorkton Workshop was small but mighty! The students in attendance were eloquent speakers and eager to learn. Yorkton Regional High School, Home of the Raiders does have students that embody that pursuit of excellence! SEDA is excited to be back in Yorkton! | Yorkton WorkshopMelissa Ong, SEDA Executive Director, led the debate skills portion of the workshop. SEDA is grateful to Yorkton coaches - Sarah Greensides, Kendra Helfrich and Katherine Koskie for the work they are doing with the students in Yorkton. | Yorkton WorkshopThe group learned public speaking skills with Carrie Pengilly from Free My Muse Theatre Company. What a amazing partner we have found in - Carrie - as we seek to equip our young people to be confident and articulate speakers! |
Yorkton Workshop
Yorkton Workshop
Melissa Ong, SEDA Executive Director, led the debate skills portion of the workshop. SEDA is grateful to Yorkton coaches - Sarah Greensides, Kendra Helfrich and Katherine Koskie for the work they are doing with the students in Yorkton.
Regina Debate Workshop
Regina Workshop Almost 50 students attended our Regina workshop at Luther School. This is our traditional debate season kick-off in Regina and this year were specially fortunate to have Jason Xiao, SEDA alumni and current Team Canada coach and Leora Diakuw, also a SEDA alumni and world class debater lead our workshops! | Regina Workshop As always, we are grateful for the partnership with Luther College High School for this kick-off event! Thank you to Luther Coaches Kim Greenman and Julia Mitchell for the excellent hospitality! | Regina Workshop Thank you to all who participated! We hope to invite and encourage more students and schools in Regina and area to join us in SEDA! |
Regina Workshop
Regina Workshop
Saskatoon Debate Workshop
Saskatoon Workshop Over 40 students participated in our Saskatoon Workshop at Caswell School. We are excited for the upcoming season with the enthusiasm and energy to learn that our young students bring! | Saskatoon Workshop Thank you to our facilitators for this workshop: Wardah Mahmood, Nohl Purdue, Susan Lutkin, Sarah Myers. SEDA Executive Director was also excited to meet many parents new to the SEDA community but committed to teaching their children that Words Are Powerful! | Saskatoon Workshop Workshops are a great way to enhance your debate skills and become more confident with public speaking. They are also a great opportunity to meet other debaters and families in our SEDA community! |
Saskatoon Workshop
Saskatoon Workshop
British Parliamentary Qualifier
The Top Teams:
Senior Division:
1. Jasnoor Guiliani & Josh Soifer from Luther College
2. Bridgit Salamon & Kaia Bater from Walter Murray
3. Victor Wu & Carrick Peak from Walter Murray
U15 division:
1. Rafay Ahmed & Dishita Emayavaramban from Walter Murray Collegiate
2. Nyshane Clarke & Aurora Kennedy from Ecole Elsie Mironuck School
The above teams will represent Saskatchewan at the National British Parliamentary Championships in December. Congratulations to all our debaters for doing a hard thing! Additional SK teams will be named once we have confirmed numbers for the Championships.
Boston Pizza - BP for BP!
A big thank you to Boston Pizza who sponsored our BP Tournament. The pizza was delicious! This season, SEDA will be partnering with some of the local franchises of Boston Pizza for the meals at our British Parliamentary (BP) style debates, including the Canadian National British Parliamentary Debate Championships that SEDA has the honour of hosting in December 2019. BP for BP!
2019 National BP Championships
Government Debate: Tournament 2
Our next tournament will be held on October 5th at Walter Murray. All event details are up on the website HERE.
Registration process:
1. Fill in your Debater Membership form linked on the front page of our website. That way SEDA has all the information it needs from your for the whole season! If you have already done this, thank you!
2. Tell your coach you want to compete at the Oct 5th Tournament!
3. Give your coach your $25 entry fee (& your $40 membership fee if you have not already paid it).
3. Your coach will register teams through the Oct 5th event page on the the website by Friday Sept. 27th.
4. When you arrive at the tournament check in at the registration table!
5. Your coach will hand in all the registration fees to the Registration table.
Speech Tournament
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- Twitter: @sedadebate
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