Jayhawk Debate Institute 2025 (Two Week Camp)

The Jayhawk Debate Institute prides itself on providing exceptional preparation to its students on the upcoming high school debate topic. The JDI summer institute offers nationally competitive debate instruction at a cut rate price. We specialize in providing experienced adult instructors with vast experience teaching both high school and college debate. The teaching staff includes professors and PhD students from KU's national championship winning coaching staff and experienced instructors from other Universities. We will also facilitate students getting the opportunity to take advantage of facilities at the flagship University for the state of Kansas and to communicate with University admissions. The two-week camp will offer labs in the novice, intermediate, and advanced. The advanced division is for experienced high school debaters. Students are exposed to advanced theory and work intensively on developing in-depth approaches to the topic. The intermediate division is for students with some experience who seek to improve upon their basic skills and to begin investigating more advanced theoretical concepts. The novice division is meant for those students who are brand new to debate, either they are just entering high school or they picked up debate late, this special lab is a chance to focus on the basic skills needed to compete the following season. All students are placed into both topic and generic research labs. A tournament concludes the two-week camp.