This course is designed to develop intermediate debate skills through use of challenging debate topics in domestic formats of debate (Canadian National Debate Format or British Parliamentary).

In class, students focus on specific debate skills to help them progress more quickly to the next level while expanding their knowledge.

This course is a special class offered to those students who are higher-level intermediate: not quite ready for the Advanced class, but higher level than most of their peers in Intermediate.

In this course, coaches will focus on targeting student areas of weakness and cementing high-level skills to prepare students to move up into the Advanced program.

This course is for strong debaters who are passionate about debate and are considering pursuing debate competitively. The lessons of this course are chosen by the coach to target specific areas of student weakness and will be decided based on the needs and goals of the debaters.

Lessons will be aimed at specifically improving student style and content while introducing higher-level strategic tools in debate.

This course is for the academy’s most competitive debaters who will compete on behalf of the academy at major Canadian and American, as well as world tournaments. All sessions are at the discretion of the top coaches of the academy, with a large portion of classes focused on training for specific tournaments, including tournaments that use the most popular American format of debate – Public Forum.

Prerequisites for entry into this class include both a coach recommendation as well as a try-out session. Students at this level frequently win top awards and have excellent skills that are easily transferable to other areas of their lives.