<p>How does one go about setting up a functional Debate Team at his high school?</p>
<p>I know the basics of my school's whole club founding process, but once I found the club...then what? A decent web resource on this is surprisingly difficult to find.</p>
<p>Also, is such a commitment worthy for the college app? I have to ask.</p>
<p>You need a good teacher and a group of committed people to attend (pretty much like every successful club). Emphasis on the good teacher for debate prep though, because without preparation things won’t go well (spoken from experience - though I’m only a member, not founder of debate team). </p>
<p>Check out the people in your school who are interested in politics, overall arguing, news…</p>
<p>If you can get a good debate team going, that you lead well and ends up being a pretty significant force, then yeah it’s good for both the college app and as a general life experience. Don’t even try if you’re not genuinely interested in this though, or it will be a nightmare.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t mention it if I weren’t genuinely interested in it ^^.</p>