Congratulations to CDC Camper/ Instructor Owen Tilman for Winning 3rd in LD at Nationals! 

Also, big congratulations to CDC Camper Tristan Williams for winning 3rd Best Speaker in LD at the 2023 NSDA national tournament.

Altogether 32 former campers competed at the NSDA national tournament! It was so much fun to see you all in Phoenix! Our national qualifiers included 5 in LD: Sam Bowen, Liz Cho, Divya Shanmugam, Owen Tilman, and Tristan Williams. 7 in PF: Colin Hsieh and Aidan Krishnaney, Colin Moore and Ben Wilkinson, Gabe Floyd and Henry Shang, and Rohan Athavale. 2 in IX: Tristan Miller and Jasmine Shone. 1 in USX: Guhan Krishnan. 4 in Congressional Debate: Hayden Frazee, Abigail Meighen, Bohan Pan, and Nikki Stein. 10 in World Schools: Arveen Alaeddini, Maya Baxter, Maggie Chen, Ella Jewell, Steven Kim, Wes McGovern, Sharanya Nair, Lucy Papini, Abby Poprocki, and Chris Rhodes. 1 in Extemp Debate: Tarika Kahlon. 1 in OO: Elandrea Baker. And 1 in Big Questions: Sachet Pati.

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Additionally, 2 new CDC Staff Members competed at the 2023 NSDA Nationals as well: Hannah Owens Pierre in LD and Luke Wagner in PF. Congrats to Hannah for winning 1st place in the LD Speaker Awards this year!

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Congratulations to the 2023 Missouri Public Forum Champions, Bohan Pan and Eric Fan! 

At the Missouri state tournament, Bohan Pan and Eric Fan were 5-3 in prelim ballots, barely advancing to elimination rounds. But then they defeated the 2nd seeded  team in quarters 3-0, the 5th seed in semis 3-0, and finally the 1st seed in the finals 2-1. Bohan and Eric attended Classic Debate Camp in 2022, the summer between 9th and 10th grade. At camp their PF instructors were Madelynn Einhorn, Sukhm Kang, Abraham Paik, Ananth Menon, and Krish Mawalkar. During the school year, Bohan and Eric debate for LaDue Horton Watkins High School in St. Louis.

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CDC LDer Sam Bowen Wins 2023 Cleveland City Club Championship! 

Sam Bowen attended Classic Debate Camp in 2020 and in 2021. In 2020, he participated in the PF division, and in 2021, he switched to LD. In Sam's LD lab, the CDC instructors were Maya Arora (2017, 2019 NCFL champion), Nehal Chigurupati (2019 NSDA runner-up), and Katie Blowers. To watch the full City Club debate round, click here.

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