Warrior Intensive 26'

A Summer Camp for Rising 6th - 9th Grader

What are we?

The Warrior Intensive is an immersive on debate & speech learning and practice experience. We accept all rising 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th grade students. We are a day camp that is held from 9am to 4pm. We offer two sessions each summer. All labs are run by adult staff members with decades of expertise in debate & speech collectively.

Who are we?

Our staff is led by the Camp Director Mr. Dominic Henderson, and head coach from Westwood High. Mr. Henderson has been around debate and speech as a competitor and coach for over 30 years. He is a two Diamond coach who has been awarded the Donus D. Roberts Award for Excellence in Coaching by the National Speech and Debate Association. He has coached student to every national and state tournament in every single debate and speech event.

Daily Structure?

Each day students will be led by successful coaches that successfully competed and taught others to state and national qualifications. In addition, they will be supported by junior staff members who have themselves qualified to state and national level competition. Student will be led through direct learning instruction, break groups practicums and direct simulated and real competition scenarios that will fully prepare them to begin their competitive debate and speech experience in the next academic year.

Sample Day

Arrival 8:30am-9:00am

Argumentative Icebreakers 9:00am-9:20am

Lab Instruction [12 to 2 ratio] 9:30am-11:00am

Topic Lecture 11:15am-12:15pm

Lunch & Social Circles 12:15pm-1:00pm

Competitive Simulation [6 to 2 ratio] 1:15pm-2:15pm

Lab Instruction [12 to 2 ratio] 2:30pm-3:15pm

Practicums [6 to 2 ration] 3:15pm-4:00pm

Check Out/Departure 4:05pm-4:30pm

Cost and Dates

We consider ourselves to be a service to the community and thus we attempt to keep the price as long as possible. We provide safe and healthy snacks and lunch each day in addition to high level debate and speech instruction. Due to new district building use rule - the last day of each camp will be practical application days virtually. The schedule on this day will be module with office hours and practice speech and debate events.

One Week Warm Up

June 1-5, 2026

9am-4pm Day Camp

One Week Warm Up

July 13 - 17, 2026

9am-4pm Day Camp

One Week Intensive

July 27-31, 2026

9am-4pm Day Camp

$350

per camp

One Week Warm Up - this camp is intend for students that are discovering debate and speech. It is a survey of all subjects in debate and speech.

One Week Intensive - this camp is intend for student who have attended the Warm Up or have previous debate experience and are seeking to build mastery skills in a particular debate or speech event.

How do I apply?

The Warrior Debate and Speech Intensive is open to all students in the greater Austin area. If you are interested simply fill out our application and a staff member will reach out to you no later than May 1st or within 3 business days if your application are received later than May 1st. We do limit our camp to 250 students so we suggest you apply early.

Question may be direction to: dominic_henderson@roundrockisd.org