Policy Debate Workshops
Four Week Session
Attending a highly competitive national level workshop for at least 4 weeks is crucial to many students in achieving the highest levels of policy debate. Our four week program is unique in its intensive focus on both research and skill development. Students attending for four weeks will spend their first three weeks in a Scholars or Kritik lab and will then transition to our skills session.
Designed for ALL LEVELS of competition and experience, the skills sessions successfully matches students with competitors who will best maximize theirs skill developmetn. While each session will include focus on speaking skills, redos, and practice debates, sometimes students of all levels want to go "above and beyond" in order to enhance their in-round skills. The Skills Session offers the unique opportunity to do just that through a series of an incredible number of highly focused drill-oriented debates designed to develop a very specific and effective skill set. In the past 5 years, the skillls week has averaged 16 full debates.
On the Saturday transitioning to the Skills Week, students select partners in a typical partner preference system. Once partners are paired, students work together to develop an instructor preference sheet, whereby each instructor is paired with 2 or 3 teams to coach for the duration of the week. This arrangement gives students an opportunity to compete in a closely-knit setting with a coach leading a squad through more than 70 hours of rigorous training.
The additional week of instruction will focus on practice speeches, rebuttal redos, speaking drills, and practice debates in order to adequately prepare students for the school year using a set of evidence already in place. The unique approach to skill development offered during this session is certain to improve anyone's level of competitive success. Students who have attended the skills session consistently indicate that the skills session was the most valuable institute experience in their high school debate careers.
Consider that in one week of individualized instruction you will receive the equivalent of an entire semester of class time and competition. Don't let the competition get an edge - stay ahead of the game this summer!
Dates: June 20 - July 17, 2010
Price: $3100
Skills Week Only (July 10-17): $1000
2010 Skills Session Faculty (alpha):
Jairus Grove (Harvard)
Dan Lingel (Jesuit)
Tracy McFarland (Jesuit)
Dan Rowe (North Texas)
Geoff Smith (Wakeland)
Aaron Timmons (Greenhill)
Be sure to check out our staff bios for more details!
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