ALT Against a blue background with a cartoon computer featuring the DS logo, a text box labeled "Student Review" says: "I really like how Debate Spaces challenges their students and tries to maximize their potential." Union City, California, USA

ALT Against a blue background with a cartoon computer featuring the DS logo, a text box labeled "Student Review" says: "I liked that so many people from all over the world could just have fun, bond and have a friendly debate!" Kandy, Sri Lanka

ALT Against a blue background with a cartoon computer featuring the DS logo, a text box labeled "Student Review" says: "I learned how to speak with a lot of confidence when speaking to larger groups of people today." Somerville, Massachusetts, USA

ALT Against a blue background with a cartoon computer featuring the DS logo, a text box labeled "Student Review" says: "Debate Spaces created a safe environment for me to speak freely." Kingston, Jamaica

ALT Against a blue background, a white outlined bullhorn icon on the left, and to the right, caption "Now Recruiting: Fall 2023 fellows. $250 USD stipend, ~4 hours per month, August-December 2023. Empower youth, develop professionally, make an impact. Apply now at debatespaces.org/fellows." At the bottom, the orange and light blue speech bubble DS icon.

ALT A screenshot of a Zoom meeting with a background showing the colored tiles with the numbered and labeled U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. In the upper right corner are the zoom squares of the two guest speakers in the middle of speaking with the students.

ALT A screenshot of a presentation slide with a white background titled "Today's Topic: Artificial Intelligence (AI)" and sub points "What do you already know about AI? What ethical issues related to AI can you think of? What questions might you have for our presenter today?" On the right side is a graphic with a dark blue background and a conceptual drawing of an AI network in white. In the middle of the slide is a screenshot showing the two Zoom squares of the speakers, Denis (against a white background with a blue shirt, brown hair, and round wire glasses) and Ece (with a white turtleneck sweater and mid-length brown hair). They are smiling while in the midst of participating in discussion and answering questions.

ALT Screenshot of a zoom screen with three panels: Friederike, with long blonde hair and a white sweater on the bottom; Rohini, with long black hair and lighter highlights and a gray t-shirt in the upper left; and Shannel, with black hair pulled back, round black glasses, and a white patterned shirt in the upper right. Rohini is in the middle of speaking as Friederike and Shannel listen in.

ALT A gather.town screenshot with Angela mid-speech in the upper left corner wearing a black shirt and DS fellow Joel, wearing a red shirt with thin white stripes, in the upper right corner, interviewing Angela. Below their frames is a cluster of student and staff avatars in the Gather space.

ALT A screenshot of the Debate Spaces givebutter fundraising page. At the top is written in black bold font "Voices Heard 'Round the World" and in small font below "Building bridges and empowering students worldwide." In the center is the Debate Spaces logo, two overlapping speech bubbles, the left side light blue, the right side orange, and the middle a black circle with "DEBATE SPACES" written in capital letters in white. At the bottom is a horizontal thermometer with $95 (2 supporters) written above it on the left side and "2% of $5,000 goal" on the right side.

ALT A screenshot of the gather.town space with twelve squares showing students and staff waving, holding up peace signs, raising their virtual hands, and showing the Debate Spaces slide deck. Guest speaker Colin is in the second row on the left side against a blue background with a whiteboard.

ALT A screenshot of the gather.town chat during Colin's presentation with questions from students: "Colin, is it better for those animals to be put in zoos or aquariums?" "Is it morally ok to have pets?" "What is your opinion on animal poaching?" "Why do people test makeup products on animals?" "What are some of the things that you would advice us to do in order to save animals or take good care of animals?" "Is it morally okay to test products on animals?"

ALT Students pose questions to guest speakers Santiago (CNN) and Laura (Airbnb), facilitated by deputy executive director Amanda

ALT Students listen to presentations by our guest speakers on the topic of media literacy.

ALT Our fearless fellows and facilitators celebrate a successful Academy session! Featuring DS co-founder and recent Harvard Law graduate Matt Summers, who joined today's session.

ALT Orange text on a dark blue background. Text reads: Register now for the 2022-2023 Debate Spaces Academy! The Debate Spaces Academy is a monthly program for students ages 10-15 that connects communities worldwide and empowers students through debate. Sessions take place from 9:30am-12pm Eastern Time (New York) September 17th, October 15th, November 19, December 17, and more in Spring 2023! debatespaces.org Graphics of pencils and notebooks adorn the outside of the image.

ALT Against a dark blue background with the light blue and orange Debate Spaces speech bubble logo, light blue text reads, "WE'RE RECRUITING FELLOWS FOR FALL 2022! Join us on our mission to provide accessible debate education while developing global citizenship and awareness of timely social issues. Interested? fill out the form linked in this post!