Jayhawk Debate Institute 2025 (Three Week K Lab)

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. This three-week lab at the Jayhawk Debate Institute is oriented toward juniors and seniors who are specifically interested in kritikal research, argument construction, and argumentation at a nationally competitive level. During the three weeks of camp, students will read and develop familiarity with various subsets of critical literature, such as antiblackness, Marxism, queer theory, and settler colonialism; conduct both guided and independent research into this literature; develop and hone the ability to construct kritikal affirmative and negative positions; and explore various types and formats of kritikal debate as well as the traditions and histories out of which kritikal debate has developed. Students in this lab will participate in intra-lab debates as well as the traditional three-week JDI camp tournament.