JUNIORS TOURNAMENT

We will be offering Junior Debate again this year!

Guidelines

  • Juniors events are for 6-11 year old students only
  • Juniors Speech registration fee is a flat $20 per student
  • Junior debate is FREE
  • Juniors can register using the Student Registration tab at the top of this webpage, just like the Seniors
  • Juniors may register for a maximum of four speech events, plus junior debate
  • There will not be any finals for Juniors

There will be 2 rounds for the Juniors in the following categories

  • Juniors Apologetics
  • Juniors Duo Interp
  • Juniors Individual Interp
  • Juniors Platform
  • Juniors Bible Story Impromptu
  • Juniors Expository

*Juniors students should plan to be in the Juniors competition area 15 minutes before the start of each round

Juniors Judges

  • We would like to use Senior students to judge the Juniors events
  • Senior students who would like to judge Juniors speech events need to meet at least ONE of the following criteria:

* Have participated in STOA as a Senior for a year
* Are at least 14 years old

  • Sign-up sheets will be available throughout the tournament.
  • Juniors Judges need to arrive at least 15 minutes before each round in order to judge. They will be required to go through a short judges' orientation prior to judging.

Juniors Apologetics Questions:

The following questions will be used for this event:
Junior Apologetics Questions 2023-2024:
1. Who is Jesus?
2. How does the Holy Spirit help us?
3. What is creation?
4. What is the fall?
5. Why did Jesus have to die?
6. Is Jesus the only Savior/way to heaven?
7. What is grace?
8. What is prayer?
9. What is sin?
10. What is the Bible?
11. Why must Jesus be truly human and truly God?
12. How many persons are there in God?

Topics for Junior Bible Story Impromptu

2023-24 Bible Story Impromptu Topics
1. Healing of Naaman
2. Tower of Babel
3. Fall of Jericho
4. Christ is Born
5. Jesus turns water into wine
6. Jesus calms the storm
7. The burning bush
8. The Tomb is Empty
9. Jesus walks on water
10. Elijah and the priests of Baal
11. Daniel in the lions' den
12. Saul becomes Paul

Note: The new Stoa guidelines for using timers that face students will be used for the Junior tournament as well. However, no penalties will be assessed for going over time.

Junior Debate:

There will be 2 rounds of debate.

Please download and read the following guidelines for Junior Debate:

COMING SOON!

The resolution for Junior Debate this year is:

Resolved: Museums are better than zoos.

Rules and Ballots for all Junior Events:

junior-rules-apologetics.pdf
juniors-ballot-apologetics.pdf
junior-rules-bible-story-impromptu.pdf
juniors-ballot-bible-story-imp.pdf
junior-rules-expository.pdf
juniors-ballot-expository.pdf

junior-rules-interps.pdf
juniors-ballot-individual-interpretation.pdf
juniors-ballot-duo-interpretation.pdf
junior-rules-platform.pdf
juniors-ballot-platform.pdf

Debate ballots and info coming soon.