The Research Triangle Forensics Institute Public Forum Debate Camp is for any student who has competed in Public Forum Debate or would like to try the event next year. Instruction will be individualized based on each student’s current level of experience and current skills. Focusing on the primary mission of the event, the camp will stress strong oratorical delivery with solid research and analysis. As Public Forum is a debate event, part of the week will involve case writing, argumentation structure, and topic analysis. We will also spend much time on refutation style and wording. Students will participate in several grand and individual crossfire sessions with individual analysis by program instructors. The week will culminate in a mini “challenge tournament” among participants. This is a day camp, taking place on the NC State campus in Raleigh, North Carolina, which has computer-equipped classrooms for research. The course runs from 8:30am until 5pm, July 17-21.

The Research Triangle Forensics Institute Public Forum Debate Camp will be taught and directed by Jason Kline. Jason is currently a coach at Myers Park High School in Charlotte, NC and serves on the NFL Public Forum Debate Resolution Wording Committee. He has coached students to NFL Nationals in PFD every year it has been an event, with his team placing 8th in 2005. Additionally, he has had many teams break and place in PFD at various national tournaments, including Wake Forest, The Glenbrooks, Lexington, and Emory. The Institute also offers camps for Lincoln-Douglas Debate (taught by Jason Baldwin) Extemporaneous Speaking (Steve Conaway) and Student Congress (Jonathan Peele) Contact Carole Hamilton, Institute Director, for more information.