FDA x Gomes Debate

Register for FDA Gomes’ 4th annual program, in partnership with Gomes PTA and FUSD! The deadline to sign up is February 20th!

We’re excited to start FDA Gomes’ fourth annual debate program this year! DISCLAIMER: Because of limited bandwidth, we will be capping this year’s program at ~24-30 4th-5th grade students. Students will be admitted on a first come, first serve basis. The rest of the students will be put on a waitlist. 

Over the past 10 years, Fremont Debate Academy has impacted over 5000 elementary and middle school students in 19 states & 8 countries, including thousands in FUSD through operations in 25 FUSD schools. Under our instruction, students and alumni internationally over the past few years have qualified to elimination rounds or won tournaments in prestigious tournaments over 400 times! 

This year, we’re running an 8 week long competitive debate program focusing on the Middle School Public Debate Format at Gomes Elementary School. Students will learn various structured forms of argumentation, and research techniques. Through practice sessions, drills, and mini-competitions, students’ public speaking skills will be vastly improved. At the end of the school year, there will be a FDA international tournament! 

Fremont Debate Academy’s studies about its programs exhibit strong results regarding student growth: Students participating in FDA’s debate & civics programs saw a 39.1% improvement in their self-confidence & public speaking skills, 45.9% improvement in their knowledge about the world & research skills, and 90% said that participating in FDA’s debate & civics programs has had a positive impact on their academic performance.

FDA Gomes Debate sessions will be held on Tuesdays from 5:00-6:30PM in Room 401. There will be 8 classes for this program. The start date for the sessions will be February 25th at Gomes Elementary School. Our last session will be on April the 15th,

The full list of session dates are the following: 2/25, 3/4 ,3/11, 3/18, 3/25, 4/1, 4/8, 4/15 

Feel free to direct any questions to our program instructors             

Matthew Wang - matthew@fremontdebateacademy.org

Staff Member Ms. Ravi - rarvind@fusdk12.net