Stanford National Forensic Institute

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To sign up for this program, visit our online application. Please enter your own name as both the parent and student attending camp--the website is designed to primarily take student signups, and create a management account for the parents. You will be able to select the coaches institute on the third page of the application.

This exciting new program is held August 1-7 on the Stanford campus as part of the Stanford National Forensic Institute program as a service to the high school coaching community, with fees covering room, board, and staffing for the program. The total cost of the program is $850 for coaches wishing to stay on the Stanford campus. This fee includes 6 nights of dormitory housing and all meals. All coaches will receive a single occupancy room, however showers and restrooms are shared with other rooms. If you are interested in housing with private restroom facilities, please contact us. These arrangements need to be made on a case-by-case basis, but expect that the supplementary fee for such accommodations will be approximately $300.

Nermin Kamel, Director of the California HS State Speech Championships tournament, is tentatively slated to direct the program. Ms Kamel is an assistant principal at San Ramon Valley High School, and previously was the coach for nearly a decade at La Mirada High School and league president for Southern California Debate League. While at La Mirada Ms Kamel qualified a number of students to late round success at State, Nationals, and most major invitationals.

Attending coaches will participate in structured discussions about a number of important topics such as building a successful program, recruiting students, fundraising, building curriculum for a class versus an after school club, individual events coaching, and coaching debate. Coaches will generally have group meetings in the mornings and evenings, and in the afternoons will have the opportunity to visit lab groups / classes for the events that are of greatest interest to them that are happening at the Stanford National Forensic Institute. Occasional input from the national caliber staff of the regular camp will occur.

The program is designed for beginning to intermediate level coaches, those with no prior experience to a few years of experience.

The total cost of the program is $850 for coaches wishing to stay on the Stanford campus. This fee includes 6 nights of dormitory housing and all meals. All coaches will receive a single occupancy room, however showers and restrooms are shared with other rooms. If you are interested in housing with private restroom facilities, please contact us. These arrangements need to be made on a case-by-case basis, but expect that the supplementary fee for such accommodations will be approximately $300.

We are proud to announce that one lucky and deserving coach will receive a full scholarship to attend the 2010 Coaches Institute! Please pass this offer along to any coach or program who you think might benefit from our Coaches Institute! Interested coaches may submit their entry here.

To sign up, visit our online application. Please enter your own name as both the parent and student attending camp--the website is designed to primarily take student signups, and create a management account for the parents. You will be able to select the coaches institute on the third page of the application.