I. Purpose

Thirty Minutes Prep is an all-inclusive website devoted to high school extemp speaking. We turn every thirty minutes into a power round speech.

Thirty Minutes Prep was created by and is administered by Craig Ormson, a former qualifier for CFLs and NFLs in policy debate, extemporaneous speaking, and/or Congress. He also was a head policy debate coach for three years.

He is currently an attorney with the Social Security Administration. Any opinions pertaining to Social Security policies or issues are my own personal opinions and do not reflect the opinions of the Social Security Administration. Similarly, any information pertaining to Social Security policies or issues are based on publicly available documents and are not based on any private or unavailable documents.

II. Practice Questions Package

Thirty Minutes Prep offers a two-month practice questions package for $10. Customers will receive 50 practice questions each month. The practice questions will be emailed to the customer on the 1st of each month. These practice questions are not placed in The Draw until two months after their original release, i.e. practices questions emailed on September 1 will not be placed in the draw until November 1.

The pratice questions packages can be purchased via DebateChamps.

III. The Draw

The Draw is designed to simulate an extemp round. You have the option of selecting the category (US, International, Combined) and the number of questions (1 through 5). There are hundreds of questions in each category. The questions are mainly taken from articles in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Economist.

IV. Summaries and Podcasts

All summaries and podcasts are available for free. No new summaries or podcasts will be posted.

V. Contact Us

We want to make Thirty Minutes Prep the premier website devoted to high school extemp speaking. To this end, we want to hear from you. Please feel free to send us any of your questions, comments, or suggestions here.