Program description:

We are proud to offer a one-week Public Forum Debate program. This camp builds skills similar to our Parliamentary program but with a more specific focus on the structure and strategies unique to Public Forum Debate. This program also offers students with little to no experienced coaching at their schools the opportunity to develop the necessary skills to coach themselves.

This exclusive one-week program features:
- a low student to staff ratio- averaging one staff to every ten students or better.
- a great number of practice debates- half of the total instruction time will be spent on conducting practice debates.
- seminars on brainstorming, constructing and supporting arguments and theory of argumentation from the ground up.
- topic analyses on a number of commonly used topic areas through a spirited examination of current events.
- living and working on the Stanford University campus in a stimulating and secure environment.
- videotaping of speeches for review and analysis of speaking styles, cross-examination techniques and argument selection.

The camp is held in an intimate setting that allows plenty of question and answer sessions and one-on-one interaction with instructors, not just rote learning. Students are allowed to develop in a relaxed and supportive atmosphere with excellent supervision. Students will emerge from the program as more confident public speakers and as experts on the rules, style, and strategies of public forum debate, ready to compete in the fall.

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