Stanford National Forensic Institute

To sign up for this program, visit our online application. Please enter your own name as both the parent and student attending camp--the website is designed to primarily take student signups, and create a management account for the parents. You will be able to select the coaches institute on the third page of the application.

This exciting program is held July 24th to July 30th on the Stanford campus as part of the Stanford National Forensic Institute program as a service to the high school coaching community, with fees covering room, board, and staffing for the program. The total cost of the program is $1095 for coaches wishing to stay near the Stanford campus at our arranged hotel property on a double-occupancy basis (our hotel is just across the street from campus). This fee includes 6 nights of hotel housing and all meals. All coaches will receive a double occupancy room. If you are interested in having your own hotel room, please contact us. A single occupancy hotel room will cost an additional $400.

Nermin Kamel, Director of the California HS State Speech Championships tournament, is tentatively slated to direct the program. Ms Kamel is an assistant principal at San Ramon Valley High School, and previously was the coach for nearly a decade at La Mirada High School and league president for Southern California Debate League. While at La Mirada Ms Kamel qualified a number of students to late round success at State, Nationals, and most major invitationals.

Attending coaches will participate in structured discussions about a number of important topics such as building a successful program, recruiting students, fundraising, building curriculum for a class versus an after school club, individual events coaching, and coaching debate. Coaches will generally have group meetings in the mornings and evenings, and in the afternoons will have the opportunity to visit lab groups / classes for the events that are of greatest interest to them that are happening at the Stanford National Forensic Institute. Occasional input from the national caliber staff of the regular camp will occur.

The program is designed for beginning to intermediate level coaches, those with no prior experience to a few years of experience.

To sign up, visit our online application. Please enter your own name as both the parent and student attending camp--the website is designed to primarily take student signups, and create a management account for the parents. You will be able to select the coaches institute on the third page of the application.