Athens Debate

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Debate has the power to be transformative. With the right approach, debate can become a vehicle that channels natural curiosity towards some of life's most challenging subjects and vexing questions. At Athens, we augment natural student curiosity with curriculum and an educational pedagogy that prioritizes deep learning and content mastery. In placing a premium on the mastery of logic, writing, philosophy, communication, and public policy, students develop the intellectual to...olkit to tackle any issue. Through our innovative curriculum, students: learn how to ask the right questions, engage in vibrant discussions through socratic questioning, improve their technique with creative teaching methods, do their own research and write their own cases from scratch, play constructive games that "trick" them into learning advanced philosophy and logic, and engage in a robust online learning platform that takes their debate education to the next level. In the end, through this no shortcuts approach, our students don't just become good debaters, but strong thinkers. Our process may take longer but it leads to more meaningful success.

Congratulations to all of our Athens Debaters for their tremendous success at this weekend's Santa Clara University debate tournament. We took 23 debaters to the tournament. 7 of them reached the elimination rounds! We had 4 students make it to the round of 16; 3 students to the round of 8; 2 students in the semi-finals; and ultimately 1 student to final round and win 1st place! Congratulations to Athens debater Reina Pradhan for winning 1st place at this major tournament. Congratulations to Athens Ethan Babel for getting 3rd place and 2nd Speaker at the tournament as well!