What lab/schedule will I be put into?

POLICY

You fill out a form asking you about your partner and lab preferences and you’ll tell us about your experience, success, and answer a few questions about debate theory. We’ll use that form to put you into an affirmative and a disadvantage lab and schedule with people who have similar experience and background. Later, you’ll get to preference your counterplan, kritik and choice research labs.

LD and Public Forum

When you begin your work, our lab leaders will work with you to place you into a lab based on your experience and interests where you will get the instruction you need so that you excel!

Concretely, what does that mean? It means that if you are:

Very experienced Debaters: You will experience advanced lectures addressing the latest theories and intricate strategies. You will engage in in-depth discussions about topic strategies with your lab leader; the small lab size means you can ask the questions you want and get the answers you need. You will work with other students who are equally experienced.

Fairly experienced Debaters: You are going to get the attention and knowledge you need. You are going to learn advanced debate theory. You are going to be able to put that theory into practice during our drill sessions. You can ask the questions you have and get the answers you want from our staff because you are in a small lab working one-on-one with our staff.

Less experienced Debaters: If you don’t have much experience or none at all, you are going to learn the key skills and theories of debating working with our staff one-on-one through an innovative program that has been nationally acclaimed. You will be placed into a lab where you will get the individual attention you need to begin your debating success.

AND REMEMBER—OUR CAMP IS DIFFERENT.

You learn what you want because you are in SMALL groups and you can work with your lab leader one-on-one to ask questions, work on skills, prepare arguments, and achieve your goals! At other camps, you might get stuck in large lectures where they are only covering material you have heard before. At WNDI, you will be challenged each and every day at our camp because the curriculum is YOU—lab leaders working on what YOU want and need to learn.