Colorado’s first Stoa qualifier racked up top awards for our alumni. Check out this impressive showcase…we’re very proud of them all! Ryan Brody & Zach Vaughan – 1st Place Team-Policy Benjamin Griffith – 1st Place Lincoln-Douglas Cody Cessna & Brandon Yeates – 1st Place Duo Tess Enos – 1st Place Extemp Brandon Yeates – 1st [...]
Parliamentary Debate Opener
October 1, 2010
The first official tournament of the year took place in Texas. Though we didn’t officially train toward parliamentary debate (it is an experimental style of debate this year), we are very proud that our alumni have done quite well in this new format. Congratulations to alumni Ty Harding and Adam Nasser for taking 1st Place [...]
Heading to Nationals
June 1, 2010
Training Minds for Christian Homeschool Speakers and Debaters Regional and Open Tournaments are over, and the lineup of Training Minds Alumni is more impressive than any other year. Here’s a rundown of the incredible outcomes of preparation: Team-Policy Six of nine titles… NCFCA: Regional qualifiers (9 in all) gave 1st place TP awards to six. [...]
R4: Last Regional Tournaments Delivers 1st Place Alumni
May 9, 2010
All the regional tournaments are over, and the final tournament was an incredible event. Both 1st Place Champions in Region 4 (the largest NCFCA region this year) were Training Minds Ministry alumni. Other alumni were at the top of the list. Congratulations competitors! 1st Place Lincoln-Douglas: Pete Ehrett Other LD teams who broke to outrounds: [...]
R5: BOTH Finalists Camp Alumni
May 5, 2010
The Russells (Missouri) took a caravan of debaters to the Colorado Conference last summer. Together, the team of families attended the workshops and brought their knowledge home with them. Not a bad strategy that pays off at competition time! Register today. Check out the representation of Missouri at the Region 5 qualifier… Cara Alexander [...]
R8: 1st Places Awarded to Camp Alumni
April 30, 2010
1st Place Team-Policy Debate team: Jacob Dean and his partner, Whitney Rutherford. 1st Place Lincoln-Douglas: 2nd-year camper Christian Fernandez. Kind of a goofy picture, but it shows we have a lot of fun at camp…plus learn a lot! We are thrilled to see our campers take their region championship titles, and now they’re off [...]
R6: Qualifier Tops With Alumni Posted
April 25, 2010
Region 6 is a region where Training Minds Ministry has had mediocre presence. We’ve never held a camp in Region 6, but some families have traveled to our events elsewhere. You’d think our success record would reflect this, but we are very pleased to announce… 1st Place Lincoln-Douglas award to alumni Austin Heath. 2nd [...]
R10: Qualifier Sends FOUR Alumni to Nationals
April 22, 2010
On the other side of the United States, Region 10 hosted the second NCFCA National Qualifier. Out of the 6 who qualified, 4 were TMM alumni. Congratulations to… Nathaniel and Mathias White (1st Place) Shekinah-Glory Dhanie-Beepat and Isaac Kim (2nd Place) David Frye III and Kathryn Lind (3rd Place) Devin Creed and Andrew Min (6th [...]
R3: 1st Qualifier Sends Alumni to Nationals
April 18, 2010
Year after year, validation unfolds: debaters who work hard and receive solid training end up doing well in competition. It makes sense, really: early training = success later. Check out the outstanding results in Seattle at NCFCA’s Region III National Qualifier, the first region to host a National Qualifier: 1st Place Lincoln-Douglas alumni [...]
Heart of the Valley: Coach’s Dream Results
April 11, 2010
Stoa’s final qualifying tournament took place last weekend. Typical tournaments in California run very large with over 100 Team-Policy teams and Lincoln-Douglas debaters, as well as some of the largest flights of limited-prep in the country (150 impromptu, for example). Alumni took top awards: 1st Place (Chase Harrington) and 2nd Place (Alexandria Nogy) [...]
Heading into April: So far, very good
April 3, 2010
This is it! The final stretch for most of the nation, the last chance to make it to Nationals. Qualifiers across the country will send people to NCFCA Nationals. So far, there are a handful of qualifiers from the NCFCA Opens, and our alumni have most of the slots: Team-Policy: 6 of the 7 [...]
Proud Dad Thankful for Summer Training
March 31, 2010
Approximately 1,300 students and coaches have gone through our camps since we started them in 2005. Quite a track record has built up over the years. Here’s an email we received from a Summer 2009 coach: We just want to say that we are really grateful for all the help your ministry has [...]
Colorado Open: Alumni Everywhere
March 28, 2010
For the third National Open in a row (there are only three this year), Training Minds Ministry alumni secured the top slots in debate, as well as several individual speech events. The big news out of Colorado: 1st and 2nd place contestants both Team-Policy and Lincoln-Douglas debate were alumni of our events. In [...]
1st Place Award to 4th-year Alumni
March 15, 2010
Some debaters have been coming to Training Minds Ministry for years, Montana Krueger being one of them. He secured 1st Place Lincoln-Douglas and 2nd Place Speaker Points at the Region 6 Indiana Qualifier. Montana had this to say about Training Minds Ministry Events: Attending Training Minds debate camp enabled my brother and me to make [...]
Alumni Secure 1st Place in second NCFCA Open, Massachusetts
March 13, 2010
Alumni Secure 1st Place in second NCFCA Open, Massachusetts …POSTED LIVE! We’ll post as results come in. The annoucement of Debate Quarterfinal Breaks was extremely encouraging: 4/8 in Team-Policy and 3/8 in Lincoln-Douglas were Training Minds Ministry alumni… Team-Policy: Dhanie-beepat/Kim, Creed/Min, Baumgardner/Nelson, Paul/Paul. Lincoln-Douglas: Blake Meadows, Marie Jeffries, Natasha Torrens. UPDATE 1: The following HSD [...]