A. C. Snider has suggested that CEDA (Cross Examination Debate Association) should create an outreach program to connect CEDA debate programs with the high school policy debate community. Most debate educators would laud programs that promise to train more students in argumentation, but a pilot program shows that an outreach program does not fulfill its promise of open debate to more students. A study set up a pilot program at Marist College (New York) that: (1) assigned two unpaid student interns to administer the pilot program; (2) assessed the needs of high school debate programs; (3) set up a high school judging program that provided judges for high school debate tournaments; (4) ran a model LD workshop for high school debate; and (5) attempted to recruit high school students to the college to join the debate team. These various projects met with a broad range of outcomes from not worthwhile to very worthwhile. However, experience demonstrates that active outreach to high school students drains resources from more pressing needs. The college administration supported this pilot study; but when they evaluated the results, the academic vice president wondered if time and money would not be better spent introducing new college students to debate rather than chasing after experienced high school debaters. He did not see why high school students who already had 3 or 4 years of debate training would be intrinsically more worthy of attention than college students with no experience. (TB)