Matt has been the head of Blue Book Advanced as its lead editor. In his high school days, he competed in NCFCA’s Region 8 for 3 years. During that time, he qualified for nationals in team debate 3 times and won 2nd place team at the National Tournament in both the 2003-2004 and the 2004-2005 [...]

Impromptu, Extemp, Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Team-Policy Debate Shane Baumgardner competed for 4 years in the NCFCA and won numerous awards. He is the 2009 and 2010 National Champion in impromptu speaking, as well as being the 2009 National Champion in extemporaneous speaking. He also placed 6th in LD at the 2009 National Championships and 3rd in [...]

Team-Policy Debate, Club Coaching, Events Coordinator Pictured: Miss Maggie (bottom left) with her club during a tournament. Maggie Carabelos has been a mainstay in the Colorado speech and debate community from its inception. She was introduced to forensics in high school and coaches her speech and debate club with a strong focus on teambuilding and [...]

Dynamic Communicators Workshops Best-selling author, frequent radio and television guest, and one of the country’s most sought after inspirational and motivational speakers — Ken’s mixture of side-splitting humor and inspiration delights and enriches audiences of all ages. His books have received national critical acclaim, including the “Book of the Year” award and the Gold Medallion [...]

Apologetics, Platforms, Impromptu, Lincoln-Douglas Debate Born and raised in Southern California, Luis Garcia pursued high school forensics as a founding member of the speech and debate club Set Apart. Luis has cherished every moment of seeing God’s Awesome Hand at work throughout his three years of competition. Specifically, he praises God for the passion God [...]

Debate (both TP and LD), Extemp, Cross-examination Cody Herche is the author of Keys to Extemp (Monument, 2008) and edits Gold Book: The current events sourcebook. As a high school forensics competitor, he won the national Team Debate title in 2006, extemp speaking championship in 2005, top Lincoln-Douglas speaker award in 2005 and the California [...]

Interp, Debate, Author of Keys to Interp Travis Herche shares ten years of experience in speech and debate, including two entries in the NCFCA Hall of Fame. Travis was a Dramatic Interpretation national champion in 2006; in the following years he became the English-speaking world’s leading expert in high school interpretation. His book Keys to [...]

President, Training Minds Ministry Coach Jeub is president of Training Minds Ministry and owner of Monument Publishing. He co-authors Blue Book every year with one of the leading voices of team-policy debate, Vance Trefethen. He works with coaches from across the country to bring the best products possible into the hands of young debaters. Mr. [...]

Apologetics During her six years of homeschool forensics competition, Cynthia has participated in Team-Policy, Lincoln-Douglas, and Parliamentary debate. She has earned titles in seven out of the ten speech categories, and is the 2011 top placing Extemporaneous speaker in her state of Colorado. She is a graduate of 2011 and is heading to the University [...]

Platform Speaking, Worldview Dr. Chris Leland joined the staff of Colorado Christian University in July 2011 as Professor of Communication and Director of Debate. Recently he served as Vice President of College Student Ministries for the Focus on the Family and President of the Focus Leadership Institute. He also served as Senior Fellow for Christian [...]

Best-selling Author & Apologist Mark Mittelberg teaching at Training Minds Ministry in 2010. Mark Mittelberg is a best-selling author and sought-after speaker. His newest book, The Questions Christians Hope No One Will Ask, is one of the two main resources covered in this year’s Silver Book Curriculum. The book deals with the ten issues believers [...]

Debate, Platforms From the moment he began debating, Matthew Mittelberg was hooked. Matthew competed in team-policy debate for three years in California in both NCFCA and Stoa. During that time he had a leadership role in the Apollos debate club in Orange County. In 2010 Matthew moved with his family to Colorado and continued his [...]

Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Team-Policy Debate Kaitlin participated in NCFCA for five years and Stoa in her final year of debate. She debated in Lincoln-Douglas for three years and explored Team-Policy in her senior year. Additionally, she has competed in nine out of the ten speech events. She took 7th place at the 2009 national tournament in [...]

Team-Policy Debate Coach Parks captained his High School NFL debate team from 1978-1981. A graduate of Bowdoin College and Franklin Pierce Law Center, Captain Parks served as an Air Force JAG officer for 5 years before starting his own private practice in North Carolina specializing in arguing criminal cases before appellate courts. During that time [...]

Research Camp, Team-Policy Debate, Author of Blue Book Cases Coach Vance debated in National Forensic League debate while in high school from 1979-1982. In college, he judged at high school NFL tournaments in North Carolina. After college, he moved around the country for various jobs, including some time with the Defense Department in the Washington, [...]