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The debate camp at a computer like you've never had!
Seize the opportunity of remote work to master the one thing that’s hard to pull off at in-person debate camps: research skills. It’s a challenging topic since most volunteer coaches have never made a debate brief.
You'll learn from a research pro who transferred debate research/sourcebook skills into intelligence analysis and business. Isaiah will teach you to mindmap, use journals, track the schools of thought on a topic, choose one, and spend an entire year (and lifetime henceforth) at a deeper level in the research.
The format is: Isaiah lays research foundation like you’ve never seen before, then launches students on assignments. Independent students work on their own. Club students work with their club. We’ve made Discord (it’s like Slack) channels available for anyone who wants.
Coach Laurie is leading her Mars Hill club through this and also putting on a killer debate camp the other half of this week—with guest speakers, experts, Dr. Farris, and so on. You can choose either or both!
Isaiah McPeak's first day of homeschool debate was September 11, 2001. He placed top 5 nationally 5 times in high school and college and coached the 60-person PHC debate squad in its heyday. By day he's a successful businessman with $40M+ in sales, high stakes presentations at Fortune 500's, built multiple startups through multimillion fundraises, and is currently co-founder at the Pinwheel.io healthy kid's phone. He coached 10 high school national champs, co-authored Upside Down Debate, and... uh.. more.
Laurie knows what it takes to build a successful business. Hers took off and she grew it to a multimillion dollar enterprise with clients all across Arizona.
Professional speaker and presenter, plus corporate sales trainer and manager. Represented her industry at multi-state, national, business and political events. Life Member of The Fiesta Bowl Committee, speaking to communities and corporations. Founder and board member for several non-profits.Â
To prove these methods work, Isaiah is continuing to NOT learn what the NCFCA and Stoa TP and LD topics are. He will learn the wording on day 1 of camp when we first start researching.
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Because we're trying to learn a repeatable skill, not a scripted one.
Isaiah will prove these research methods work from ground zero on the topic, with no prep at all.