We're launching our 2024-25 school year fundraising campaign! Please support the LASA Debate Team!

With many national champions coming from the LASA program, your donations are critical to support their success! Our students and coaches work tremendously hard and as a public magnet school, the only budget to support the program is directly from student dues and our fundraising campaigns.

Supporting ASDA and the LASA Debate Team makes debate accessible to more students and access to amazing coaches. Debate teaches critical thinking, public speaking, cultural and global awareness, research and writing, and organizational and time-management skills. LASA Debate alums have attended elite universities such as Harvard, Northwestern, Emory, University of Chicago, Michigan, Penn, and UT, and received significant scholarship offers from colleges around the country.

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Top Reasons to Support LASA Debate Why Support The LASA Debate Program:
1. Unparalleled success for an exclusively extracurricular team.
2. LASA Debate is a volunteer-run, self-funded team.
3. Other debate teams on the national circuit receive financial and logistical support from their school. LASA Debate succeeds despite having no debate class, no in-school meetings or work time, and no funding or paid coaches provided by the school. Consistently having national-level tournament wins in top debate circuits.
4. Great novice program to build the next varsity teams for success.
5. Our talented and dedicated coaches are the foundation for LASA Debate’s success. Our amazing head coach volunteers his time—many weeks 40 hours or more—on top of his own full-time job. We also have fantastic, hardworking part-time coaches who devote many hours to working directly with our team.
6. More debaters competing at a high level means higher judging and tournament expenses. In addition to entry fees, participation in tournaments requires our team to provide or pay for qualified judges, which often involves travel expenses as well as fees.

Your donations will help defray shared tournament costs including coaching expenses, tournament fees, and travel expenses involved in participating on the national and state-level circuits. Debate is our passion! LASA Debate and the broader debate community offer a lifetime, supportive network of friends and mentors.

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Lasa Debate 2024-25 Season Fundraiser

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