The Institute for Speech and Debate

ISD is a nationally recognized speech and debate summer camp program for middle and high school students. Designed, managed, and staffed by championship speech and debate coaches, we offer the highest quality speech and debate program in the nation. While we work hard to win, we also have fun. Our students love participating in our popular activities that foster friendships that last long after camp ends. Above all, we are a community dedicated to each other and to our shared passion for speech and debate. As life long speech and debate competitors and coaches ourselves, were trained to challenge each other. So, when we set out to build our own program, we saw opportunities to be different and to be better. These became the values and principles upon which we founded ISD. We hire nationally recognized faculty who get to know students through small group sessions and provide highly individualized instruction and coaching. And, we balance all of this learning with exciting acti...