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Reality Herald wants to help intellectually ambitious students move from classroom opinion to researched argument. Speech and debate, Model United Nations, Global Issues Network, and mock trial provide unusually good places to learn how evidence, logic, rhetoric, cross-examination, and competing first principles work under pressure.
The National Speech & Debate Association supports competitive debate and speech programs for middle- and high-school students. Reality Herald can help students research resolutions, test claims, locate primary sources, and understand arguments on both sides.
National Speech & Debate Association → Tabroom tournament calendar →MUN forces students to research a country, understand policy constraints, answer competing proposals, negotiate language, and defend a position before other delegates. Our conference calendar begins with major high-school conferences and links to broader international directories.
Upcoming MUN conferences → MUN Connect worldwide directory →GIN conferences bring student teams together around global problems and student-designed projects. Students research problems, defend proposed solutions, answer objections, and present workshops to peers.
Global Issues Network → Find a GIN conference →The American Mock Trial Association gives undergraduates a structured forum for evidence, examination, objections, rhetoric, and persuasion. High-school students can use the same disciplines while preparing for their own mock-trial programs and for college competition.
American Mock Trial Association → AMTA tournaments →Background, definitions, major competing positions, evidence sources, and unresolved questions for current debate topics.
Research paths that separate what a student personally believes from the position a represented state would plausibly defend.
Tools for distinguishing facts, assumptions, burdens of proof, legal rules, witness credibility, and competing narratives.
Students can learn to identify hidden premises, weak analogies, unsupported causal claims, equivocation, and other defects without reducing disagreement to labels.
Our conference calendar collects selected upcoming Model UN events and points students toward GIN, NSDA, and mock-trial schedules maintained by the organizations themselves.
Open the conference calendar