I will use the minicon as a tool for convention preparedness. Minicons will be encouraged to use proper moderating procedures to train moderators for conventions. I will do all that is possible to provide a cabinet member to minicons to help explain moderating procedures. I will encourage cabinet members to attend and will attend as many as possible myself.
One of the major issues that arises at Spring State is moderating. Moderators are often unprepared and unknowledgeable. This is understandable, they are poorly taught. I will change this not only by making sure that proper moderating procedures are taught and used at conventions, but also through a broader education program. A guidebook and video will be made discussing proper moderating procedures, produced by my chapter. We will also improve the last-minute information provided at the beginning of convention. Moderators, often freshman who have attended few or no conventions, will thus know what is going on, and we will see much better moderation.
I will encourage individual chapters to hold practice sessions for the debates at conventions. In order to facilitate debate practice, I will try to make debate topics and legislation available as early as possible. If chapters have debate topics early, they will have time to run through the debates their newer members are participating in so that their membership can be better prepared for the debate. It is always easier for a new debater to discuss a topic they have discussed previously.
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