<p>I was curious whether or not the summer debate institutes offered by the top tier universities to high school students such as Dartmouth Debate Institute, University of Michigan 7-week, Stanford National Forensics Institute, etc. train home-schooled debaters competing on the National Christian Forensics and Communications Association league. Do those programs only train debaters who will compete on the National Forensics League? </p>
<p>If not, does that mean that the NCFCA is not as prestigious as NFL? If so, are there any ways that a home-schooled student can participate on the NFL? </p>
<p>These camps really won’t help you that much. Your resolutions are different. What type of debate is NCFCA? What arguments are normally run? I would say it’s a huge waste of money.</p>
<p>NCFCA has team policy, Lincoln-Douglas, and regular speech events, but it is for home-schooled students. It has different resolutions than NFL though. Past team policy resolutions have included: Resolved: That the United States should reform or abolish NATO, Resolved: That the United States should significantly reform its policy toward India, etc. </p>
<p>Does that mean that those debate programs only research NFL’s resolution?</p>
<p>Yes, they do only research NFL topics, but the drills and skills should be applicable to NCFCA. I don’t know any camps, sorry. However, google is a nice tool I tried it and by my first search I found 20 ish camps.</p>
I tried it and by my first search I found 20 ish camps.</p>