Summer Camps

Overview

Join us for a series of in-depth training camps, coached by experienced intercollegiate debaters. Over the course of five days, you’ll learn and practice skills that will help you in debate, education, and life: critical thinking, research, public speaking, teamwork, and much more. While our various camps focus on different debate formats, each camp teaches the same core skills that can be applied to any format. 

Intro to Debate Camps

In your Intro to Debate Camp, you’ll participate in fun and engaging activities designed to help you develop the key concepts and skills required to succeed in debate, including organizing your thoughts, building clear and succinct arguments, note-taking, fast-paced critical thinking, framing an issue, budgeting time, public speaking, asking good questions about new information, responding to opposing points of view, crystallizing key points and making a final pitch to an audience, being creative, adapting to challenges, determining what is relevant in material, and more! Once you’re comfortable with the basics, you’ll debate fun topics with your peers, such as whether school uniforms should be required and whether dogs are better than cats!

Key details
  • No experience necessary. 
  • Recommended for students aged 10-15; younger students will be considered on a case-by-case basis. 
  • Time commitment: beyond meetings, some light homework (estimated to be less than 1 hour per day) is assigned to help reinforce what’s been learned.

Advanced Debate Camps

In your Advanced Debate Camp, you’ll explore key concepts in debate theory and strategy through a series of discussions, activities, in-meeting debates, and homework to prepare for debates and reinforce concepts such as analyzing the resolution, identifying the burdens of each side in a given debate, researching and evaluating evidence, incorporating evidence into your case, using the stock issues to identify different kinds of arguments, identifying logical fallacies, identifying errors in evidence and statistical reasoning, weighing impacts, and addressing concepts in political science, economics, and philosophy that appear frequently in debate contexts. 

Key details
  • Prerequisite: Any Intro to Debate camp and/or previous experience with a debate program or team. 
  • Recommended for students aged 13-17; younger students will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
  • Time commitment: beyond meetings, moderate homework (estimated to be about 2-3 hours per day) is assigned to help reinforce what’s been learned. 

Tuition

The base tuition for a single camp session is $295 USD, with increasing discounts as you register for more camps. Current Ready Set Debate members should contact their coach to inquire about member-exclusive discounts. 

  • One camp session: $295 USD
  • Two camp sessions: $550 USD (save $40)
  • Three camp sessions: $750 USD (save $135)
  • Four camp sessions: $900 USD (save $280)

Please contact us at info@readysetdebate.com or call/text (310) 662-3255 if you want to register for more than four camp sessions. 

How to Register

Step 1: Review our Summer 2023 camp schedule and decide which session(s) you want to register for.

All times are in Central Time. All camps are hosted at STEAM Learning Club, 8751 Collin McKinney Pkwy #1401, McKinney TX, unless otherwise marked. 
June 5-9
Focus on Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Intro 9am-1pm (SOLD OUT)
Advanced 1:30pm-5:30pm
June 26-30
Focus on Public Forum Debate

Intro 9am-1pm (SOLD OUT)
Advanced 1:30pm-5:30pm
July 10-14
Focus on Policy Debate
Intro 9am-1pm
Advanced 1:30pm-5:30pm
July 17-21 (ONLINE)
Focus on Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Advanced 9am-1pm
Intro 1:30pm-5:30pm
July 24-28 (ONLINE)
Focus on Public Forum Debate
Advanced 9am-1pm
Intro 1:30pm-5:30pm
July 31-August 4
Focus on Parliamentary Debate
Intro 9am-1pm
Advanced 1:30pm-5:30pm

Step 2: Contact us to confirm there is still space in the camp session(s) you wish to register for. 

Our camp schedule generally reflects current availability, but occasionally, a camp fills before we have the chance to update the schedule. Please reach out to us at info@readysetdebate.com or (310) 662-3255 to notify us of the specific camp session(s) you are registering for, so we can confirm that there is still space available in the session(s). 

Step 3: Use the following form to pay your tuition.

Once we’ve received your tuition payment, we’ll contact you to collect your student’s information and complete your registration.

Step 1 of 4

How many camp sessions are you registering for?