Ravon from North Carolina
I think that our room is unique because it holds history in it. When you look in the room the first thing you see is the trophies from past tournaments that our school has won. It shows you trophies from way, way, back. So that's why I think our room is unique.
Heather from New York
Our coach's classroom is just like every other classroom in the school but it is nice to walk in there and have other students in there talking about our trophies on the shelves.
Carmen from South Dakota
Our debate team room is unique, because it is where so many different types of people come together and unite, as one, never looking at each other in anything but a positive way.
Ashley from California
We have a crazy speech room (to go wtih an even crazier team). The best part of our room is that the rehearsal rooms are not soundproff. It's great to come into a room and hear multiple HI's, OO's, and Extemp's all being given at once. We like to call it "organized chaos." To add insult to injury...the room the contractors DID soundproof was the coach's office.
Nikole from Arizona
What makes Desert Vista's room unique is that we don't have one. We are spread out aroudn teh school and don't have any resources or money and we still are rockin'!
Chance from Missouri
My speech and debate room is unique because of the people in it. The room itself isn't really anything special; white walls, white board, some various posters and bookshelves, and never ending rows of desks, but when there are two people standing near the north wall of the room squawking about the history of television, something tyring ot convince the south wall to adopt a new policy, someone trying to make the east wall cry, and the coaching sitting near the west wall and supervising all of this while judging a debate in the center of the room, typing up a tournamnt attendance list, holidng her newborn baby, explaing the concept of student congress to a novice, and reading the newspaper for good evidence articles, the room can be extremely unique in comparison to the rest of town.
Darnell from Texas
It's a place of relazation and determination, I luv it!
Sean from Illinois
Our school's speech room is very BLAH!...ask anyone on our speech team and I'm sure you'll get the same answers. The wall are white as is the floor. I guess the only real "EXCITING" part of our room is the color fo the maroon cabinets that cover the far back wall. TALK ABOUT FUN!
Sarah from Georgia
Our debate room is much like a family room. Because of all of the team members act as a family, we gather together in the debate room to socialize and have fun with each other. The room is always warm (mostly from the never ending copier), always cozy (aside from the papers littering the floor, we bring pillows and blankets), and inviting (there are always people moving about, talking and playing music). Our debate room reflects the team: comfortable and family like.
Tyler from Arizona
Our speech room is unique because of the vast array of wildlife that resides in it. We have 3 monkeys in cages, 6 iguanas that we feed Policy debaters to, and a couple of mountain lions. When the extempers don't picket fence the tournament, we feed them to the mountain lions. We don't do extemp any more.
Ronnoc from California
In my classroom, our teacher has a microwave, a refrigerator, and we have a school store. Come on, what other debate room sells chapstick, playing cards, and tampons.
Nathan from Colorado
The uniqueness comes from the people in it. Many of our team have their second home in Motter's (our coach) room. It is a room that we all feel comfortable in, and all love to spend time in. If you need to find a team member during lunch, chances are very good that they will be in Motter's room, hanging out and having a good time.
Braden from Nevada
Well, there is not anything physical that would make the room unique...but the individuals that enter the room to debate and to deliver speeches are unique in their own many ways. We have funny kids, one really over-mature kid, and some kids that make you stop and say, "Whoa!"
Amie from Utah
Our debate team room is our coach's classroom. It has debate and MUN awards and decorations all over the walls. We have our school's "Wall of Fame" which has our coach's personal awards along with plaques of national attendees, debate students of the year, and select mini-biographies of certain stand out students from previous years. On another wall is the MUN flag along with several awards and flags of almost all the countries represented at competition. Our final decorative wall has all current NFL students' certificates lined up according to number of seals achieved. This section of our "team" room is what you could call our shrine to ourselves. Probably the most interesting part of our room, excluding the shrine, would be our clothes rack. There is a pull out section along one wall of our room where all of our clothes go on the day of a tournament. Overall, I think the only thing our "team" room is missing is all of our awards from the year, but those have to go in our debte case in C-building. My absolute favorite parts of our "team" room, which are only there during competition, are our doughnut table, dance floor, and game "room."
Myles from Alaska
My debate room is a science lab. There is a huge desk at the front where both teams sit but because the lab table is so big, it helps. The room is only used once in a long while, as only one class is taught in it.
Nick from Pennsylvania
Our forensic room, is like no other room, in the sense that it's not a room at all...it's a large closet aside from a conference room.
Kirstie from Nevada
I think that the people in my debate room make it unique because each one of us is unique.
Ron from Missouri
Our speech and debate room is unique because it's more than a classroom; it's more like a house to us. Ms. Morrill is like a mother figure, and our fellow 'squad' members are more than just classmates. We can go there for more than just intro help, or to re-read our ballots from the previous tournament. We can go there for advice, a place to vent when we're angry, a place to cry when we're sad, a place to laugh, a place to make new friends that you never thought you'd make, a place called home.
Robert from Wyoming
Our current season and current total points are displayed in the room...on a bulletin board flanked by a brightly colored big bird like poster that "holds" the points. It's quite strange. No one else in the state has a bird holding up their team's current point situation. That is why the Saratoga Speech Team's room is so unique.
Chris from Nebraska
In our speech room, our coach posts where we have been and how we have done. She even puts out names in little arrows and if we have gotten superiors, then she will put a star within our arrow. If we get a 50 on our ballot, then she will put us into the 50's Club.
