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THE 2010 PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE INSTITUTE Grades 9-12 AT LOYOLA COLLEGE, BALTIMORE JULY 11-24, 2010 (application form of bottom of page) |
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CURRICULUM The Public Forum Debate Institute is geared toward teaching students debate skills needed for success in school and in competitive debate. Taught by leading renowned debate coaches, the institute teaches students the skills of effective case construction, brief writing, researching, rebuttals, cross-fire, evidence analysis, summary and final focus. Students will leave the Capitol Debate Summer Institute ready to be successful debaters. |
Small Group Seminars - Practicums The Public Forum Debate Institute Practicums challenge debaters to apply materials learned in lectures. Immediately following each skill or theory lecture, debaters split up into small groups of equal experience levels to put the materials discussed in the lecture into practice. After a lecture on case construction, for example, students will meet in small groups and brainstorm the construction of their case. Through instructor guidance, debaters come up with winning strategic moves that they can use in future debates. Through these exercises, we have witnessed the growth of many debaters.
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Skills Development Critical to success in public forum debate is the ability to effectively debate a wide range of topics. The Capitol Debate Faculty is dedicated to teaching you advanced skills in:
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Practice, Practice, Practice
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Topic Lectures & Strategies Capitol Debate will give extensive lectures on all facets of the different topic areas including foreign policy issues, domestic issues, legal issues, and ethical issues. We will focus on strategies that can win you debates. |
Location Located near downtown Baltimore, Loyola College offers the perfect location to study debate. The campus allows full access to its computer labs, large dorms, outstanding food service and great facilites. Trips to museums, baseball games and tourist sites will be planned. Baltimore is an hour drive to Washington D.C. and tourist outings and research opportunites will also be planned.
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Costs 1 Week Residential Program: July 11 to July 17: $995 Residential Program includes double occupancy dorm room and full meal plan. Commuter program includes lunch and dinner each day - commuter program runs from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekdays and does include weekend hours.
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2010 FACULTY
Jason Kline, Camp Director, Debate Coach, Myers Park High School in Charlotte, North Carolina Jason Kline is current a Debate Coach and Assistant Principal at Myers Park High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. He began coaching debate in 2000 at Mercyhurst Preparatory School in Erie, Pennsylvania and has been an avid Public Forum coach since its inception in 2002. He has coached five Public Forum Teams teams to break rounds at NFL Nationals, including teams placing 17th, 8th, and 5th. He has coached PFD finalists at the Glenbrooks, Wake Forest, and Lexington and has had countless teams in outrounds at most major national tournaments, including Emory and Harvard. He has served on the NFL Public Forum Steering Committee and is currently the Chair of the NFL Public Forum Topic Wording Committee. In 2007 he authored the first textbook on Public Forum Debate in conjunction with the National Forensics League. He is also moderator of the Catholic Forensic League of Charlotte. He has been a highly successful Advanced Placement Economics teacher. |
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Jay Rye, Head Coach Montgomery Academy, Alabama Mr. Rye has been an educator and head debate coach at The Montgomery Academy for the past 19 years. He has received numerous accolades in the field of debate and teaching including 1992 Coach of the Year from the Alabama Forensic Educators Association, 2007 Triple Diamond Award from the National Forensic League, and the 2007 Key Coach of the Barkley Forum for High Schools from Emory University. Mr. Rye’s debate teams have successfully placed at national debate tournaments including first place at Stanford University, University of Alabama, semifinals at Arizona State University, and quarterfinals at Emory University and the Tournament of Champions. |
Lynne Coyne , Coach, Ridge High School, New Jersey Bio Coming! |
Sample Schedule 8:45 a.m. Announcements |
To enroll, fill out form below. Be sure to click on the submit button. PAYMENT REQUIRED WITH SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION as we have limited space and we will fill up early this year! Extended Hours fees can be paid later but tuition must be paid at time of application. All payments are non-refundable. To pay, please click on the “Pay Now with PayPal” button on the bottom of this page and it will direct you to the paypal site. On the paypal site, you will be able to enter in your credit card information even if you do not have a paypal account. There will be a place to click to enter student's name to link payment with application. But it is important that before you pay, you hit the submit button on the application so that we get all the applicant data. Then go back and pay. It is a 2 step process: submit application and get a message on top of the screen saying Thank you for your submission and then go to the paynow with paypal button. **IMPORTANT - IF YOU DO NOT GET AN EMAIL WITHIN 24 HOURS CONFIRMING RECEIPT OF APPLICATION, PLEASE CALL RON BRATT AT 443 538-4992 OR EMAIL AT BRATT@CAPITOL-DEBATE.COM SO THAT WE CAN CONFIRM THAT YOUR APPLICATION HAS GONE THROUGH. |