说话的熊猫

法医学竞赛为学生提供了许多好处. 其中一些更为重要 好处是:

• 磨练你的研究技能 - Participating in speech and debate competitions will improve your research skills so that you can explore complex topics and be able to discuss an issue in much greater detail than someone who has only a casual familiarity with major sociopolitical issues. This will make you stand out from the crowd in both your written work and your ability 机智地谈论各种话题.
• 成为一个更好的作家 - Multitudes of surveys reveal that employers are consistently looking for prospective employees who exhibit excellent written and oral communication skills. 在取证 you will write and rewrite (with the help of your coaches) speeches with the objective of crafting a message that is timely, relevant and ultimately persuasive to a variety 的观众.
• 成为一个更好的表演者 - While the term "performance" is often thought of as being reserved only for venues like the theatre and the music concert hall, the reality is that much of our professional 生活包括表现. 我们每次参加面试都要表演 或者试着向别人表达我们的想法. 在法医学中，你将学习如何执行 both speeches you have written and literature written by others in such a way as to 让它在观众面前生动起来.
• 做一个见多识广的公民 - Citizenship in contemporary life demands that participants be not only well-informed, 但关键的信息消费者. 演讲和辩论将使你理解 a host of various issues confronting contemporary society in such a way that you can not only participate in debate and discussion about these issues, but you can be a leader in society and an ethical advocate for causes you believe in.
• 玩得开心 - Few things in life are more enjoyable than working hard with a group of coaches and teammates in order to achieve excellence in an activity. 我们项目的校友 consistently develop close friendships that last a lifetime. 花了几个小时去竞争， traveling and having fun together builds a type of special camaraderie not unlike 高水平的运动队.

We are a nationally competitive program which means that we travel across the county 面对精英中的精英. 我们参加的大多数比赛都在一天之内 drive from southwest Missouri, but we generally take at least one or two trips a year 包括航空旅行. Recently, 这个团队 has traveled to tournaments in California, Louisiana, Minnesota, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Ohio, and Oregon, to name a few.

We generally attend between four and five tournaments a semester. 我们有很多节目 compete against at the national level travel more frequently than we do (between eight 一学期十场比赛). 在SBU，我们尽可能多地旅行，但总是保持 our sensitivity to the time constraints and academic demands of our students.

In the late summer of each year we get 这个团队 together in Bolivar for a team retreat. This is a time for us to practice, work on events, prepare for the coming year, and 通过一起玩乐来了解彼此. 我们一般会在几个下午休息 during our team retreats to explore some local points of interest in the 斯普林菲尔德-Branson 市区. When time, schedules, and budgets permit, we will spend the day before 或者在一次遥远的旅行之后去当游客. 我们也聚在一起 野餐，节日聚会，以及其他可以参加的活动. 每年也会有一次 花一个下午的时间做一个团队社区服务项目.