Training Minds for Action as Mandated in 1 Peter 1:13
If our events aren’t up to snuff, the results would tend to reflect that. Year after year, we have outstanding students take top awards. “Training the mind for action” is what we’re about, and these students have definitely proven themselves. Check out the facts coming out of the 2009 NCFCA National Tournament: Team-Policy [...]
38 Team-Policy and 14 Lincoln-Douglas NITC Society Members Training Minds Ministry students are taken good care of throughout the year. Those students who attended our camps in the past were invited to our first-ever Nationals Intensive Training Camp in Greenville, SC, the home of the 2009 NCFCA National Tournament (non-alumni were welcome, but with [...]
Students in 2008 were asked to get involved in a new product from our sister organization, Monument Publishing, called Blue Book Report. Volunteer student editors are tasked with keeping up with the news on the Team-Policy topic, constantly posting news articles for students across the country to keep up on the news, this year concerning [...]
Someone emailed the Training Minds office asking about Region 1 (Hawaii). We didn’t have any alumni compete in Region 1, so it is tough to highlight any success. We’ve spoken in the past with folks from Hawaii and would LOVE to do a camp out there (wink, wink), but the opportunity has yet to come [...]
There are only six weeks to Nationals, and the final qualifying tournaments have finished. Training Minds Ministry had a significant presence in the final rounds at Regions 4 and 7, both of which concluded on Saturday… Semi-finalist Team-Debate Ty Harding & Brent Pinero attended our complete program last summer in Colorado. Both debaters took [...]
Congratulations goes to a brother/sister team from the Great North of Minnesota: Josh and Sarah Mathews, 1st Place Team-Policy Champions. The Mathews family have been attending TMM camps for the past three years, traveling across the country to receive training. It paid off big dividends, as Josh also managed to secure 2nd Sweeps, 1st Persuasive [...]
Like New England, Florida will be hosting its first Training Minds Ministry Debate Camp this year (see details here). Also like New England, debaters who flew out to our camps in other states took several top awards at the Region 8 Invitation this week… 1st and 2nd Place LD Speaker Awards go to two [...]
The ministry has not had a camp presence in New England. This summer will be the first time Training Minds Ministry coaches will be coming into Region 10 to help coach students to success. This barrier didn’t stop two Region 10 competitors from flying out to Colorado and getting the training needed to excel. Congratulations [...]
Virginia hosted a Team-Policy debate camp last summer, and debaters from the camp did well at the Region 9 Invitational last weekend. Three of the eight quarter finalist teams were our alumni: Kintzing/Nichols (3rd), Leetun/Wingard (4th) and Clark/Hughey (8th). Training Minds Ministry didn’t host a Lincoln-Douglas debate camp in Virginia in 2008, and this led [...]
We’re not making this stuff up, folks. The picture above shows all 16 debaters who broke to outrounds at the Region 3 Invitational in Lincoln-Douglas debate. All but one are camp alumni. Other highlights of the tournament include… 1st Place Lincoln-Douglas award goes to Jason Kosloski. Other alumni LDers who qualified to nationals include [...]
Region 2 hosted their Regional Invitational in Modesto last weekend and reported outstanding results. Congratulations to… 1st Place Lincoln-Douglas: Kate Nagatani 4th Place Lincoln-Douglas: Matthew Boles 1st and 3rd Lincoln-Douglas Speaks: Kate Nagatani and Holly Trujillo 1st Sweepstakes: Nicolas Townes 3rd Sweepstakes: Andrew Schalin 5th Place Team-Policy: Mae Bartholow & Trevor Ward 7th Place Team-Policy: [...]
The rest of the month of April are big weeks in the NCFCA. Most of the 10 regions will be hosting their Regional Invitational Tournaments where the remaining qualifying slots will be awarded to worthy competitors. The handful of existing qualified students (many listed in previous posts) are competing in their home regions, but [...]
Event training starts at our summer and fall events, and attending in 2008 from Region 4 was Ty Harding (pictured here at our Extemp Camp last August). Ty has done particularly well in both Team-Debate and Extemporaneous Speaking, the two tracks he attended. The biggest news thus far was taking first place in both [...]
The Sonoma County Speech Classic is California’s National Qualifier for all NCFCA speech events. One of our alumni, Trevor Ward, broke to outrounds in all five of his competing catagories: Apologetics, Extemp, Impromptu, Original Oratory and Duo (with Holly Trujillo, another alumni). He took 1st place in 4 of the 5. Congratulations Trevor! Trevor is [...]
We couldn’t be prouder! ALL of the top-10 finalists in L-D and 14/16 T-P quarterfinalists were all camp alumni. Both 1st place teams were camp alumni: Khazoyin/Watson for Team-Policy and Nathan Favero for Lincoln-Douglas. Other successful events included Apologetics (7/8 finalists were alumni), Persuasive (5/8 finalists), and Extemp (7/8 finalists). [...]