Our student competitors, parents, coaches, and tournament staff are grateful for your assistance, because we need you! Tournaments require help from a significant number of adults in our community who are willing to watch, listen, and provide written feedback to our students. We encourage you to join us by signing up to judge for one or more rounds of competition at whatever tournaments listed on our calendar will work for you. As a Community Judge, you will be provided with all the necessary training, as well as snacks and meals during the tournament hours. In turn, you will listen to and evaluate a variety of student speakers in the forensic events you choose, then provide constructive written feedback on ballots you turn in at the end of each round. Judges consistently tell us how thought-provoking, informative, entertaining, and uplifting they have found the time they spent judging, and we hope you will sign up and come join us for an enjoyable oratorical adventure!
To sign-up as a Community Judge, please do the following:
1. Look at the tournament names and dates listed below.
2. Check the box any of them that you would like to sign up to judge. (Each tournament must be selected individually, by checking each box desired.)
3. Enter your name and e-mail address. We will send you an e-mail when you finish, confirming what you entered. If the information is incorrect, you can enter it again. We will send you another e-mail closer to the tournament with additional helpful information.
4. Please enter your phone number so we can call you if we can’t read something on the ballot you will fill out.
5. If a student contacted you about signing up, please enter their name. If a student did not contact you but you have a connection with a club, please enter the club name.
6. Feel free to contact us with any questions at this email: stoaco_webmaster_01@me.com
7. No previous experience is necessary; anyone who has completed high school and is at least 18 years of age is welcome to be a judge. That’s all there is to it!
We appreciate the hours you are giving to us, and look forward to seeing you at the tournament(s) you signed-up to judge! Our students will strive to make your visit enjoyable and memorable, and our staff are ready to provide you with an easy and pleasant experience! Your investment of hours yields high dividends in our students by helping them become articulate, persuasive, and winsome in their speaking ~ skills that will last them for a lifetime! Thanks again, and see you at the tournament!!
