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Debate
Debate or debating is a method of interactive and representational argument. Debate is a broader form of argument than logical argument, which only examines consistency from axiom, and factual argument, which only examines what is or isn't the case or rhetoric which is a technique of persuasion...

camp or debate institute is a training workshop for high school and collegiate debaters. The camps exist so students may learn about the upcoming topic or "resolution". Usually these camps are held over the summer for weeks a time at different universities around the country between two and eight weeks. While once attended by only highly competitive policy debaters, many high school students now attend debate institutes, and often urban debate league

Urban debate league

An urban debate league is a group of high school policy debate teams from urban high schools in the United States. Usually, UDL's are located in large cities throughout the US, and work with predominantly minority students-Early years:...

s will pay for the students to go to these camps.

Structure

During instruction, students are divided up into different focus groups, or "labs". The instructor(s) is called the "lab leader". Each group has its own focus and goal during the day or week. The lab leader will guide them through the topic and how to argue it. Many institutes will divide students into labs based on skill level and experience. Many institutes offer specialized "advanced" or "scholars" workshops, to which acceptance is highly limited.

Often there are mini tournaments at the end of each camp, and students are given speaker and team awards to cap off the institute.

Popular camps/institutes

Camp	Host	Website
Cal National Debate Institute (CNDI)	University of California Berkeley	http://caldebate.com/
Capitol Debate	Loyola College, Baltimore	http://www.capitol-debate.com/
Concordia Debate Institute (CDI)	Concordia College Concordia College, Moorhead Concordia College is a private liberal arts school located in Moorhead, Minnesota, United States. It is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and offers bachelors' degrees in the arts and music, as well as a master's degree in education. The college was founded by Norwegian...	http://www4.cord.edu/csta/forensics/csdi/index.htm
Dartmouth Debate Institute (DDI)	Dartmouth College Dartmouth College Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...	http://debate.dartmouth.edu http://ddi.wikispaces.com
Dartmouth Debate Workshop (DDW)	Dartmouth College	http://debate.dartmouth.edu http://ddw.wikispaces.com
Debate Camp Canada	Rosseau Lake College Rosseau Lake College Rosseau Lake College is a co-ed boarding and day school for students from Grades 7 to 12, located on Lake Rosseau, on the northern border of the Muskoka District in Ontario, Canada. RLC is a member of the Canadian Accredited Independent Schools , and the Conference of Independent Schools of Ontario... and Shawnigan Lake School Shawnigan Lake School Shawnigan Lake School is a private boarding school, located in Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia, Canada. It was founded by Englishman, Christopher Windley 'C. W.' Lonsdale in 1916, and partly modelled on one of England's leading private schools, Westminster School.- Location :Shawnigan Lake School...	http://www.debatecamp.org/index.html
Debate and Oral Interpretation Camp	Mount Marty College Mount Marty College Mount Marty College, an academic community in the Roman Catholic Benedictine liberal arts tradition, is located in Yankton, South Dakota. Mount Marty is a private, Roman Catholic, Benedictine co-educational liberal arts college...	http://www.mtmc.edu/admissions/pre-college/debate-camp.aspx
Fayetteville Area Speech & Debate	Fayetteville, North Carolina Fayetteville, North Carolina Fayetteville is a city located in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States. It is the county seat of Cumberland County, and is best known as the home of Fort Bragg, a U.S. Army post located northwest of the city....	http://www.myfasd.com>
Georgia Debate Institute	Athens, Georgia Athens, Georgia Athens-Clarke County is a consolidated city–county in U.S. state of Georgia, in the northeastern part of the state, comprising the former City of Athens proper and Clarke County. The University of Georgia is located in this college town and is responsible for the initial growth of the city...	http://georgiadebateinstitutes.org/>
Georgetown Debate Seminar	Washington, DC
Gonzaga Debate Institute	Gonzaga University Gonzaga University Gonzaga University is a private Roman Catholic university located in Spokane, Washington, United States. Founded in 1887 by the Society of Jesus, it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and is named after the young Jesuit saint, Aloysius Gonzaga...	http://www.gonzagadebate.com/GDI.htm
InfiniteCamp Debate Institute	InfinitePrep	http://www.infiniteprep.com/?page_id=740
Kentucky National Debate Institute	University of Kentucky University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky...	http://kndi.wikispaces.com/
Liberty Debate Institute	Liberty University Liberty University Liberty University is a private Christian university located in Lynchburg, Virginia. Liberty's annual enrollment is around 72,000 students, 12,000 of whom are residential students and 60,000+ studying through Liberty University Online...	http://www.liberty.edu/academics/communications/debate/index.cfm?PID=162
Miami Debate Institute	Miami University Miami University Miami University is a coeducational public research university located in Oxford, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1809, it is the 10th oldest public university in the United States and the second oldest university in Ohio, founded four years after Ohio University. In its 2012 edition, U.S...	http://www.miamidebate.blogspot.com/
Missouri State University Debate Institute (MSDI)	Missouri State University Missouri State University Missouri State University is a public university located in Springfield, Missouri, United States and founded in 1905. It is the state's second largest university, with an official enrollment of 20,802 in fall 2011...	http://debate.missouristate.edu/camp.htm
National Debate Forum	Nova Southeastern University Nova Southeastern University Nova Southeastern University, commonly referred to as NSU or Nova, is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian, research university located in Broward County, Florida, with its main campus in the town of Davie... and Emerson College Emerson College Emerson College is a private coeducational university located in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a "school of oratory," Emerson is "the only comprehensive college or university in America dedicated exclusively to communication and the arts in a liberal arts...	http://www.nationaldebateforum.com/
National Symposium for Debate	Colorado College Colorado College The Colorado College is a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It was founded in 1874 by Thomas Nelson Haskell...	http://www.nsdebate.org/
Samford Debate Institute	Samford University Samford University Samford University, founded as Howard College is a private, coeducational, Alabama Baptist Convention-affiliated university located in Homewood, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, United States. It includes the , Cumberland School of Law, McWhorter School of Pharmacy, Brock School of Business, Ida V....	http://www.samforddebateinstitute.com/index.html
Spartan Debate Institute	Michigan State University Michigan State University Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,...	http://debate.msu.edu/
Stanford National Forensic Institute	Stanford University Stanford University The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...	http://www.snfi.org/
Towson International Debate Institute (TIDI)	Towson University Towson University Towson University, often referred to as TU or simply Towson for short, is a public university located in Towson in Baltimore County, Maryland, U.S...	http://budl.org/tidi
University of Michigan Debate Institute (MNDI)	University of Michigan University of Michigan The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...	http://www.michigandebate.com/
University of Missouri - Kansas City Summer Debate Institute (UMKC-SDI)	University of Missouri–Kansas City University of Missouri–Kansas City The University of Missouri–Kansas City is a public university located in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. It is a branch of the University of Missouri System. Its main campus is in Kansas City's Rockhill neighborhood east of the Country Club Plaza...	http://umkcsdi.com/
University of North Texas Mean Green Workshops (UNT-MGW)	University of North Texas University of North Texas The University of North Texas is a public institution of higher education and research in Denton. Founded in 1890, UNT is part of the University of North Texas System. As of the fall of 2010, the University of North Texas, Denton campus, had a certified enrollment of 36,067...	http://www.meangreenworkshops.com/
University of Richmond National Debate Institute (URNDI)	University of Richmond University of Richmond The University of Richmond is a selective, private, nonsectarian, liberal arts university located on the border of the city of Richmond and Henrico County, Virginia. The University of Richmond is a primarily undergraduate, residential university with approximately 4,000 undergraduate and graduate...	http://debate.richmond.edu/
University of Texas National Institute of Forensics (UTNIF)	University of Texas	http://www.utdebatecamp.com/
Victory Briefs Institute (VBI)	Loyola Marymount University Loyola Marymount University Loyola Marymount University is a comprehensive co-educational private Roman Catholic university in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions located in Los Angeles, California, United States... and University of California Los Angeles	http://victorybriefs.com/?page_id=22
Wake Forest Institute (WFI)	Wake Forest University Wake Forest University Wake Forest University is a private, coeducational university in the U.S. state of North Carolina, founded in 1834. The university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina, the state capital. The Reynolda Campus, the university's main campus, is...	http://www.wakedebate.org/debate/index.htm
Whitman National Debate Institute (WNDI)	Whitman College Whitman College Whitman College is a private, co-educational, non-sectarian, residential undergraduate liberal arts college located in Walla Walla, Washington. Initially founded as a seminary by a territorial legislative charter in 1859, the school became a four year degree granting institution in 1883...	http://www.whitman.edu/debate/camp/
Wyoming Forensics Institute (WFI)	University of Wyoming University of Wyoming The University of Wyoming is a land-grant university located in Laramie, Wyoming, situated on Wyoming's high Laramie Plains, at an elevation of 7,200 feet , between the Laramie and Snowy Range mountains. It is known as UW to people close to the university...	http://uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/cojo/debate.asp
Northwestern Debate Institute	Northwestern University Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....	http://www.northwestern.edu/nhsi/debate/index.html
Summer Forensics Institute	Western Kentucky University Western Kentucky University Western Kentucky University is a public university in Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA. It was formally founded by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1906, though its roots reach back a quarter-century earlier....	http://www.wku.edu/pcal/camp

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