The 2017 Citi Financial Literacy Debates

May 19^th, 2017 

Teams competing:

• Gary Comer College Prep
• Curie High School
• Kennedy High School
• Kenwood Academy
• King College Prep
• Lindblom Math and Science Academy
• Noble Academy
• RTC Medical Prep
• Solorio Academy

SCHEDULE

Friday, May 19^th, 2017

227 West Monroe St.

2^nd Floor, Citi Private Wealth Division

9:00pm – 9:45pm       Registration

9:45am – 10:00am      Opening Assembly

10:00 am – 11:15pm   Public Debate I

11:15am – 12:30pm    Public Debate II

12:30 pm – 1:00pm    Lunch

1:00pm – 2:15pm       Public Debate III

2:15pm – 3:30pm       Public Debate IV

3:30pm – 4:45pm       Public Debate V

5:00 pm                      Departure

Wednesday, May 24^th

Noble Academy

1443 N. Ogden

9:00am – 11am           Final Round

Training Schedule

 All trainings will be held at:

 PwC (Price Waterhouse Coopers)

1 N. Upper Wacker Dr.

 Tuesday, May 2^nd, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

 Introducing the public debate format and the student loan debt topic (with guest content expert from Citi)

 Tuesday May 9^th, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

 Case-writing workshop and developing rebuttals (with guest content expert from Citi)

 Tuesday, May 16^th, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

 Final review of cases and rebuttals and walk-through practice debates

 Students are required to attend all sessions, unless there’s an absolutely unavoidable conflict. Coaches are required to attend at least 1 of the 3 sessions and are welcome at each.

 There is a $500 coach incentive for participating.

Benefits to participating:

• A great way to end the season, including Varsity as well as first-year debaters
• The most relevant topic we’ve had yet, one that many students are already contemplating:

Resolved: Students should attend a community college for the first two years of college rather than taking on loans.

• Spend a school day in a major corporate headquarters
• Debate in front of and learn from financial professionals
• Fun, slower-paced, shorter debate format (a change from policy debate)
• Scholarships for champion and finalist teams ($1000 each for champions, $500 each for runner-up team)