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Lincoln-Douglas
  
Our camp provides intensive preparation and
practice on the topics you will actually use during the 2010-2011 year. Our
institute has students prepare cases on the NFL LD topics so that students
have the resources and background on the actual topics that they will
debate.
- TRADITIONAL
AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY
Students
will be exposed to traditional philosophical perspectives but they
will also learn about contemporary and post-modern perspectives. LD
debaters will leave our camp with a broad based philosophical
background that covers Rousseau, Locke, Rawls, Etzioni, MacKinnon,
Foucault, and many others.
- ONE-ON-ONE
WORK IN SMALL LABS
You do
not sit in large lectures for most of the day at our camp. You do not
research in a corner of a library and you do not sit in a lab with 16
to 20 other students. For most of your day, you work in small labs
interacting one-on-one with one of our staff members. Our staff
includes LD state and national champions, people who have excelled in
the Northwest and on the national circuit in Lincoln-Douglas Debate.
These debaters have continued their success in college advancing to
late elimination rounds at the NPDA and NPTE national championship
tournaments. Most importantly, our staff are people who care about
working with you to make you the best that you can be.
- A RECORD OF
SUCCESS
Students
at our camp show remarkable improvement and are ready to win on the
regional and national level.
1) 2007 WNDI debaters closed out the AAAA state championship in
Washington: Katie Bergus and Amy Smith.
2) A Junior at the 2008 camp made it to semis of Alta even though he
is only a junior. Oliver Gappmeyer.
3) Sean Perenboom from the 2008 camp qualified to NFL Nationals.
4) Sonia Vora from the 2008 camp was 2nd in the AAA state championship
as a sophomore.
5) At every major Washington state tournament 2007-2009, at least one
WNDI debater broke.
- ADVANCED
DEBATE SKILLS
Students
will learn advanced rhetorical and debate strategies and theories by
examining judge adaptation, values, criteria, philosophers, and
rebuttals. We are also adding on differing levels of lectures so that
students learn the materials most important to their success.
- TONS OF
PRACTICE DEBATES AND DRILL SESSIONS
During the
first two weeks, LD debaters will engage in two full debates with
critiques on six of the 2010-2011 LD topics plus they will do six
practice sessions covering affirmative and negative case, refutation,
rebuilding arguments, cross-examination, philosophy, values and
criteria. Students in the three-week program will engage in at least 8
additional debates covering four more of the 2010-11 LD Topics. IN
ALL, THREE WEEK STUDENTS COVER ALL TEN NFL LD TOPICS.
- TIME FOR
STRATEGY AND REFINEMENT
We give more
time on each topic and as a result, debaters at our camp get hours
more to practice with their cases, to adjust and strategize the cases
for maximum effectiveness, and to better reflect on what went well and
what to improve on when debating during the actual year.
- YOU LEAVE
CAMP WITH EVIDENCE ON THE TOPICS YOU WILL DEBATE!
WNDI is
the ONLY camp (at least that we know of) that prepares the topics you
will actually debate. You will leave with affirmative and negative
cases on all of the 2010-11 NFL-LD topics plus evidence and analysis
on key values and criteria that you can use on any topic.
- THE THIRD
WEEK IS AMAZING
LD
debaters learn more advanced philosophy and value theory, debate with
staff members (so you get top notch competition and our staff is
nice!), cover four more of the 2010-11 NFL LD topics, and participate
in a concluding championship tournament.
Click here for
Online Registration and Info
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