Debate camp

For the episode of The West Wing, see Debate Camp (West Wing).

A debate camp or debate institute is a training workshop for high school and collegiate debaters. The camps exist so students may learn about the upcoming topic or "resolution". Usually these camps are held over the summer for weeks a time at different universities around the country between two and eight weeks. While once attended by only highly competitive policy debaters, many high school students now attend debate institutes, and often urban debate leagues will pay for the students to go to these camps.

Structure

During instruction, students are divided up into different focus groups, or "labs". The instructor(s) is called the "lab leader". Each group has its own focus and goal during the day or week. The lab leader will guide them through the topic and how to argue it. Many institutes will divide students into labs based on skill level and experience. Many institutes offer specialized "advanced" or "scholars" workshops, to which acceptance is highly limited.

Often there are mini tournaments at the end of each camp, and students are given speaker and team awards to cap off the institute.

Popular camps/institutes

Camp	Host	Website
Cal National Debate Institute (CNDI)	University of California Berkeley	[1]
Capitol Debate	Loyola College, Baltimore	[2]
Concordia Debate Institute (CDI)	Concordia College	[3]
Dartmouth Debate Institute (DDI)	Dartmouth College	[4] [5]
Dartmouth Debate Workshop (DDW)	Dartmouth College	[6] [7]
Debate Camp Canada	Rosseau Lake College and Shawnigan Lake School	[8]
Debate and Oral Interpretation Camp	Mount Marty College	[9]
Fayetteville Area Speech & Debate	Fayetteville, North Carolina
Georgia Debate Institute	Athens, Georgia
Georgetown Debate Seminar	Washington, DC
Gonzaga Debate Institute	Gonzaga University	[10]
InfiniteCamp Debate Institute	InfinitePrep	[11]
Kentucky National Debate Institute	University of Kentucky	[12]
Liberty Debate Institute	Liberty University	[13]
Miami Debate Institute	Miami University	[14]
Missouri State University Debate Institute (MSDI)	Missouri State University	[15]
National Debate Forum	Nova Southeastern University and Emerson College	[16]
National Symposium for Debate	Colorado College	[17]
Samford Debate Institute	Samford University	[18]
Spartan Debate Institute	Michigan State University	[19]
Stanford National Forensic Institute	Stanford University	[20]
Towson International Debate Institute (TIDI)	Towson University	[21]
University of Michigan Debate Institute (MNDI)	University of Michigan	[22]
University of Missouri - Kansas City Summer Debate Institute (UMKC-SDI)	University of Missouri–Kansas City	[23]
University of North Texas Mean Green Workshops (UNT-MGW)	University of North Texas	[24]
University of Richmond National Debate Institute (URNDI)	University of Richmond	[25]
University of Texas National Institute of Forensics (UTNIF)	University of Texas	[26]
Victory Briefs Institute (VBI)	Loyola Marymount University and University of California Los Angeles	[27]
Wake Forest Institute (WFI)	Wake Forest University	[28]
Whitman National Debate Institute (WNDI)	Whitman College	[29]
Wyoming Forensics Institute (WFI)	University of Wyoming	[30]
Northwestern Debate Institute	Northwestern University	[31]
Summer Forensics Institute	Western Kentucky University	[32]

External links

High school

• Capitol Debate
• Dartmouth Debate Workshop
• Dartmouth Debate Institute
• Georgia Debate Institute
• Georgetown Debate Seminar
• Whitman National Debate Institute
• Kentucky National Debate Institute
• National Forensic League
• National Catholic Forensics League
• National Christian Forensics and Communications Association
• National Association for Urban Debate Leagues
• Cross-x
• Planet Debate
• Victory Briefs
• UNT Mean Green Workshops
• West Coast Debate PolicyFiles
• HS Debate
• Policy Debate on Forensics Wiki
• ALOUD
• Western Kentucky University

Collegiate

• eDebate
• National Debate Tournament
• Cross Examination Debate Association

Other

• Debate Results
• Policy Debate Manual
• Example policy debate files
• Forensic Friend
• Joy of Tournaments
• Champion Debate Camp for Middle School Students