WHAT IS PRO CAMP?
This isn’t beginner camp.
Pro Camp is FDI’s advanced training experience for competitors who already know the fundamentals and are ready to get better.
Instead of packing everything into one weekend, Pro Camp follows students through a progression of online coaching, in-person training, real tournament competition, ballot review, and targeted feedback.
Students identify where they want to improve. The experts help them build a plan. Then they compete, adjust, and come back ready to level up again. Because getting better takes more than one great weekend.
WHY PRO CAMP?
EXPERT COACHING
Learn from accomplished speech and debate coaches with proven competitive experience and results.
TRAINING BUILT AROUND YOU
No one-size-fits-all lectures. Students work one-on-one and in small groups on the skills that will make the biggest difference in their event.
COMPETE. REVIEW. ADJUST.
Students take what they learn back to competition, submit their ballots, and work with Pro Camp Speech & Debate experts to understand what is working and what comes next.
REAL PRACTICE
Mock rounds. Drills. Simulations. Ballot analysis. Targeted feedback. You won’t just talk about getting better. You’ll practice it.
YOUR PRO CAMP EXPERIENCE
SESSION 1: BUILD YOUR GAME PLAN
Meet a Pro Camp Speech & Debate expert online, evaluate your competitive experience, and identify the skills you want to improve.
SESSION 2: GET TO WORK
Come together for an intensive in-person weekend of individualized coaching, small-group instruction, drills, mock rounds, and simulations.
SESSION 3: TAKE IT TO COMPETITION
Put your training into action at real tournaments. Submit your ballots and reconnect with a Pro Camp Speech & Debate expert online to evaluate your progress and make adjustments.
SESSION 4: LEVEL UP
Return for your final in-person weekend of advanced instruction and competitive simulations, then measure your progress against the goals you set at the beginning.
MORE THAN THE NEXT TROPHY
Pro Camp will help make you a better competitor.
But that’s only part of it. The same skills that help students win rounds communicating under pressure, researching complex issues, defending ideas, thinking strategically, responding to feedback, and setting goals prepare them to lead well beyond speech and debate.
Great competitors today. Great citizens tomorrow.
CHOOSE YOUR TRACK
CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE
Strategy
Analyses
Questioning
Presence
Presiding
SPEECH
LIMITED PREP & PREPARED
Impact
Organization​
Performance
Novelty
GENERAL DEBATE
Research
Rebuttal
Competitive Presence
Cross-Examination
Strategy
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TAILORED TRAINING
Less than 20 students per track means more time to work on what YOU need.
