The minicon is a useful tool for the Junior State of America. I plan on promoting what I call expansion minicons. I will expand JSA using expansion minicons, planned and organized by willing chapter leadership and with as much assistance as I can provide, that will help explain the organization to students from schools that don’t yet have JSA chapters, to prospective new members or chapter founders, and also give a taste of what our actual conventions are like. After attending these expansion minicons, students not yet in JSA will become interested, and hopefully form new chapters and thus expand the organization.
A manual to putting on a minicon for prospective JSA members will be published. This manual will be distributed along with new materials about summer programs, JSA conventions, and associate handouts and slideshows that will form the basis of presentations for prospective members or chapter founders. These materials will be made available to all chapter presidents, making an expansion minicon easier to hold.
In order to make these minicons easier to put on, the director of debate will be responsible for providing a series of still-relevant debate topics from previous conventions as well as some new topics and making them available on our website for chapter presidents trying to hold expansion minicons. These topics will only be useful for expansion minicons as they save work and give potential members and founders a sample of the kind of debate we normally do, rather than the usually more specialized topics found at minicons.
Chapters who want to hold a normal minicon involving a specialized set of debate topics will still be encouraged. Using our internet infrastructure program, we will make information on minicons more readily available to chapter president. I will also develop programs to encourage minicon participation.
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