NFL tournaments are speech art competitions organized for secondary school students. National forensic League is a non profit, non partisan youth organization. The main goal of the league is to encourage secondary school students in matters of speech . College scholarships are offered as a form of motivation to winners in the competition. Aspects of speech art vary from debate, public speaking, oral interpretation of poems or short stories and other literature among other aspects of speech art. The NFL is a key organizer in high school debate competitions, contests and tournaments
The NFL boasts of a membership base that is of over one million members in the whole world. All members of the league should abide and honor the National Forensic League code of honor that consists of five tenets. Service, leadership, humility integrity and respect are the five tenets. Students who are enrolled in both private and public high schools can enroll as members on approval by their principal; they also need to pay all the associated fees.
Points are earned by students when they participate in student congress, speech contest, community speaking, and interscholastic debate. Degrees are also awarded by these organization based on the number of points accrued by any particular student. Points accrued by students from a particular school are also factored in when deciding the number of student the school can field at the NFL tournaments
Some of the degrees awarded by the NFL include; Degree of merit which is secured on attaining twenty five points; Degree of honor which is awarded if a participant attains seventy five points; Degree of excellence which is awarded on attaining one hundred and fifty points; The degree of distinction which is awarded on attaining two hundred and fifty points; Special distinction degree awarded on attaining five hundred points and the outstanding distinction degree which is awarded on attaining one thousand points.
The League is very keen on empowering young people who are in secondary schools to become ethical individuals, critical thinkers, effective communicators and leaders of a society that is democratic . This are the values encrypted in the National Forensic League mission statement. NFL seeks to increase public awareness in matters relating to debate, public speaking and other speech forms. It does this by organizing contests, completion and tournaments that are carried out countrywide
Students who win these contests are entitled to over 0,000 in college scholarship as prize money. This acts a as a motivation tool to participating pupils. The organization boast of both lifelong members and high school members, only secondary school students can participate in the competitions.
The first national speech tournament was held in nineteen thirty one, ever since that time the tournament has been going on continuously. The only time that the tournament did not materialize was in the world war two years. Contestants in these competitions participate in original oratory, prose reading, poetry reading, story telling, value debate, public forums, and policy debate among other speech competitions.
The NFL tournaments are carried out at district, state and national levels. Points acquired at the district or state level catapult participants to the national contest. Apart from the points acquired during contest, members can also garner in service points. Example, if a contestant was to deliver a speech to twenty five or more adults, he would accrue twenty five service points.
Learn all there is to know about nfl tournaments by having a peek at our guide to the madden 11 online tournament and competitions for cash
الاشتراك في:
تعليقات الرسالة (Atom)
ليست هناك تعليقات:
إرسال تعليق