Dodge City Daily Globe
On Dec. 12, the Dodge City High School debate team finished out its 2020 regular season with a win in its third tournament in four weeks.
The debate squad placed first in the Moundridge four-speaker tournament on the strength of one of its teams posting a perfect 10-0 record along with runner-up honors against a field of 15.
A second team posted an 8-2 mark.
“We had a very productive day,” said DCHS debate coach Steve Ray. “Winning the tournament at Moundridge was a goal we set for ourselves this week because we had never done that before. More importantly, though, we were hoping to use this tournament to qualify people for the state meet, and that is exactly what we did. We had some people who really stepped up their game to make that happen.”
Judd Weil
Dodge City Daily Globe
Returning after a long break following its Nov. 9 meeting, the Dodge City Unified School District 443 Board of Education was given a presentation of information by the Air Force Junior ROTC program, overseen by instructor Master Sgt. Raymond Gonzales and four of his students that make unit KS-2021.
In 2018, USD 443 made the decision to pursue an Air Force JROTC program and in late 2019 was awarded an Air Force JROTC program with the expectation of implementing this program in August 2020.
Gonzales was hired to fill one of the two instructor positions in June 2020, and from there began to develop the program.