Several students from Newton South High School the Hackley School, and Dwight-Englewood recently created Prep Time Debate Camp. Prep Time Debate Camp is for middle-school students who want to improve their public speaking skills or want to learn about high school Public Forum Debate. PFD is a form of debate in which two teams of two argue for or against a resolution (for example, Resolved: The United States should provide universal healthcare for all).
The camp will be at least 8 hours of direct online instruction on a platform known as Zoom across four weeks, meeting as a group, two times a week for 1 hour each. The staff will consist of high school debaters from different backgrounds across the Northeast, teaching Middle Schoolers the fundamentals of debate such as researching, writing cases, and learning overall how a debate round works. Concepts like public speaking, research skills, and articulation can be very useful in job interviews, leadership activities, or anytime you need to captivate an audience.
If you are at all interested in the camp, please fill out this survey, and remember, by filling it out, you are in no way committing to the camp. After seeing how many people want to participate, they will send out an email with the final logistics, such as timings, the number of middle schoolers in a group. On a final note, all the optional donation we get will be given the Boston Debate League to help children access formal clothing and to help send them to tournaments once COVID-19 is over.
Here is the link to the survey if you wish to sign up:
