SPEW The Competitive World of High School Debate

Director Steven Kung Editor Josh Beckham Written by Sonny Calderon Featuring Anusha Deshpande (Atlanta, GA) Jake Ziering (Northbrook, IL) Michael Burshteyn (Oakland, CA) Shannon Lynch (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) Every...

Director Steven Kung Editor Josh Beckham Written by Sonny Calderon Featuring Anusha Deshpande (Atlanta, GA) Jake Ziering (Northbrook, IL) Michael Burshteyn (Oakland, CA) Shannon Lynch (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) Every summer, the nations best and brightest high school debaters attend preparatory camps. SPEW documents the most exclusive of these camps The Dartmouth Debate Institute (DDI) in Hanover, New Hampshire. Each year, the DDI culminates in an institute-wide tournament, the winner of which has gone on to win the national high school Tournament of Champions, sixteen of the last eighteen years.