Fremont Debate Academy x Weibel Debate

Register for FDA Weibel’s 8th annual debate program here (in-partnership with the PTO). This program is for 4th to 5th graders. Registrations will be capped to 30-36 students based on a first-come first serve basis. All other students will be placed on a waitlist. Register by March 7th!

We’re excited to start FDA Weibel Elementary’s 8th annual debate program this year! 

DISCLAIMER: Because of limited bandwidth, we will be capping this year’s program at ~30-36 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! 

The program will be split up into Novice and Advanced divisions with new debaters learning more basic techniques of case building and more experienced debaters who have participated in a FDA program learning more advanced argumentation styles

This year, we’re running an 8 week long competitive debate program focusing on the Middle School Public Debate Format at Weibel 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!

FDA Weibel Debate sessions will be held on Fridays from 5:30pm to 7:00pm. There will be 8 classes for this program. The start date for the sessions will be March 14th. Our last session will be on May 16th. April 18 and 25 will be skipped for Spring Break. The program will be in Rooms 29 & 30. Note: Parents are responsible for picking their children up promptly at 7:00 pm right after the session.  

The full list of sessions are: 3/14, 3/21, 3/28, 4/4, 4/11, 5/2, 5/9, 5/16.

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.

Feel free to direct any questions to our three FDA Weibel Elementary Instructors:

Rahul M R - rahulr@fremontdebateacademy.org     

Varun Subramanian - varun@fremontdebateacademy.org