International Debate Academy: October 2009

Friday, October 9, 2009

Stephen Boyle Added to Faculty

With the 2009 International Debate Academy Slovenia looming in November, IDAS is proud to announce that Stephen Boyle has been added to the faculty.

Stephen is now a coach at the University of Vermont, but he is far better known for his exploits as a debater for University College Dublin. There he was the Irish Times champion, he was twice in the elimination rounds at WUDC (reaching the quarterfinals), won Yale & Hart House, among other distinctions.

Welcome Stephen!

What is IDAS?

http://debate.uvm.edu/idas.html

It is the most international WUDC/British Parliamentary Debate Training in the world with a distinguished training faculty. Attendees have come from over 35 different debating nations. The program involves a rigorous combination of short lectures, skill exercise sessions and two practice debates per day. A major tournament takes place at the end. The tournament at the end of the Academy is open to all interested university debaters, so everybody who does not have time to come for the whole week can join us only for the tournament.