NPS S&D Chartered!

Notification from NSDA:

SUBJECT: Congratulations! Your School Earned Prestigious Charter Status 

Congratulations!

I am happy to inform you that your speech and debate program has earned charter status in the National Speech & Debate Association! This significant achievement is the highest school membership honor we offer. To become a charter member, you have demonstrated excellence in attaining new members and degrees in the Honor Society over the last three years.

Attached is a press release that we have sent out to news stations and reporters in your area to boast about this amazing accomplishment. We will also be shouting out your program on our Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn pages soon!

As a congratulations, we are also sending you a plaque in the mail to recognize your achievement. This may have already arrived!

Please note that you are receiving this email if you are an advisor, principal or district chair of one of the programs listed. Please reach out if you have any questions.

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Alyssa Rivera

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Marketing Communications Specialist

NATIONAL SPEECH & DEBATE ASSOCIATION

6600 Westown Parkway, Suite 270 | West Des Moines, IA 50266

O: (920) 748-6206

www.speechanddebate.org

P-Russ's recap:

SUBJECT: Gavelin' Eagles earn national Charter! 🎉🦅🥳

Good morning, all,

I am very proud to share that the National Speech & Debate Association has bestowed a Charter upon your Gavelin' Eagles Speech & Debate Team! The NSDA explains:

Charter status is the highest honor for high schools in the NSDA. The award is based on team participation. We analyze your team's points earned via competition and service compared to your overall school enrollment and recognize the schools who have demonstrated a strong commitment to speech and debate activities. . . . Your charter status demonstrates increased student confidence, vital critical thinking skills, and students finding their voices with the help of incredible coaching.

For context, at the moment Navajo Prep is one of just seven schools in New Mexico to hold this honor. Meanwhile, the team I coached back in Maine, despite representing a school more than double the size of NPS, only reached charter status at the tail end of our third season of active competition. For our humble team to be chartered in barely a year (and truth be told, we met the requirements some time back in the spring and have by this point vastly exceeded them -- I think the NSDA just got a bit behind in sending these out...) is an absolutely staggering testament to the passion, devotion, and courage of our students, and to the enormous support they receive from this community. Ahéhee' to you all!

As you can see, we got a fancy plaque to show for it! If anyone has any ideas for where it should go, let us know. For now, it has a home in the ersatz Gavelin' Eagles Museum located in the basement of Dodge Hall.

Best,

Russell