RESOLVE

Resolve (Rhetoric Effectively Showing Our Love Virtue and Excellence) is a Stoa club located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. They meet on Thursday afternoons September through April from 3:00PM to 5:30PM for speech and 6:00PM to 8:30PM for debate. Complete club information can be found at http://www.stoaco.org/resolve/.

Coaches
Debate: Larry Sparks (larrywsparks@msn.com or (719) 495-1462)

Speech: Colleen Enos (enosmom@gmail.com or (719) 495-7414)

Mission
Resolve exists to train students to communicate courageously and well in a God-glorifying manner. Resolve's intent is to train students to use the skills they learn in competition to make an impact in the real world. Ultimately, Resolve desires to help raise students who will change the culture around them and bring others to lead virtuous and God-glorifying lives.

Membership
Resolve charges $60 a student per semester for each category (speech and debate) or $100 per year per category. This does not include the cost of additional required texts which vary based on a student's events. Students must also be affiliated with Stoa and eligible to compete in Stoa tournaments. Parents of Resolve students are required to participate both in training and at tournaments. All students are required to attend at least 2 Stoa tournaments. Parents are responsible for ensuring that their student recruits a minimum of 5 judges for each local, Resolve sponsored tournament.

In addition, speech students must compete in at least two speech events from different categories.

Debate students are also required to be active participants in either the Lincoln Douglas or the team policy research ring, and may not share club research or join an outside research ring without specific permission.

Code of conduct
Members of Resolve are required to sign a code of conduct which prohibits lateness, unfinished assignments, the use of electronic devices or passing notes during meetings, disobeying any additional rules that Resolve or a tournament should put in place, gossiping, dating or flirting with club members, negative comments about another student's work, immodest clothing during club meetings or tournaments, and dressing down at any point during a tournament. It also requires students to time/watch when they are not competing and to be gracious winners and losers.