<p>Have you been to any Debate Camps? What are your experiences? What Debate Camp do you recommend? Thanks.</p>
<p>I went for a week and it was HORRIBLE. We had NO free time whatsoever except for an hour break for lunch and an hour for dinner. We had classes form 7 am until 9 PM and then we had curfew. Also I was in 9th grade but was roomed with all 6th graders. Maybe, a different one is better, but mine was just… terrible</p>
<p>I’ve never been but from what I’ve heard it is fun. Northwestern, Michigan, Dartmouth, and SDI are all good places for camp. I know you’ll have lab and you will have several lectures but since you are on a college campus with other high school students, I don’t see how it couldn’t be fun.</p>
<p>I went to a program in the UK last summer, and it was a brilliant experience. We don’t have any coaches at my school, so it was the first time I got any adult feedback except from competitions. It was only 4 days long so we had around 6 hours of classes a day, a mock debate and a lecture each night. Then there was some kind of entertainment each night. I liked doing a short one, because it meant we could do so much in the time, without crashign half way through.
Rooming was also good because we stayed in a boarding school’s dorms and they made an effort to room us with other people from our school.</p>
<p>@UKgirl23, Do you happen to have websites for some good Debate Camps in the UK? I’m looking for Competitive Camps and I don’t mind going to UK in summer. I have heard of Oxford and Cambridge Debate Unions, but I don’t know if they run summer camps. Thanks.</p>
<p>It depends on what event you do. I went to the Harvard Debate Council camp for Congress and I absolutely loved it. It was 2 weeks and involved a lot of personal attention from the coaches.</p>
<p>I attended the ESU’s camp, but it’s so short the furthest people come from is Ireland, although the world school’s camp is a little longer. Remember that we normally debate British Parliamentary (and occasionally Mace or World Schools) and camps will generally be geared specifically to this.
This is the only site I could find: [Summer</a> Debate camp, UK programs,camps in Scotland for high school students,teens](<a href=“http://www.learn4good.com/schools/summer_debate_camps_programs.htm]Summer”>http://www.learn4good.com/schools/summer_debate_camps_programs.htm)
Your best chances are probably with American companies who do international camps here, universities (especially unions) won’t organise that sort of thing themself.</p>
<p>Nor the Oxford, nor the Cambridge Union Society runs summer camps.</p>
<p>^True. All they run for school’s is one debate competition a year. I’ve got the 2nd round of Cambridge next week :D</p>
<p>Also there isn’t such a camp culture here because of shorter school holidays, but it’s worth an extensive google :)</p>