CfAR
Simulations &
Debates
for
Students
STATESMAN DEBATE INSTITUTE
Renowned Instruction and Exceptional Experience
Statesman Debate Institute (SDI) offers American youth in grades 8 to 12 and college, and their faculty, the following:
Benefit from our leadership training grounded in the full
application of classical rhetoric.
What sets SDI apart is its emphasis upon best practices in handling not only secondary sources but also primary sources. We show the stuent how to become, in effect, an expert on a given topic, how to reach his or her own conclusions and how to persuade others to take a free act.
Simulating National Greatness
A Call To Responsibility For College And High School Students!
Here is the next big thing in Model Congress and Model UN! No prior, special knowledge is required but you learn so much more!
Learn about key developments in domestic and international affairs and what it takes to keep America free. This is a multi-perspective curriculum; it is not limited by the conventional wisdom, care of the mass media, think tanks and latest campus fad. It is also highly realistic: the lead curriculum designer is an experienced public-policy practitioner; you are briefed and participate after the fashion of actual major leaders. In some ways, you may become even better informed than most leaders!
Greatly improve your critical thinking, public speaking and leadership skills! Find your voice on momentous issues!
Purpose
Program
Our purpose is to train future, responsible leaders.
Preparing the next generation of leaders, scholars and journalists to uphold a truly healthy America—one that stands upon the constitution and a strong industrial base–, while America continues to engage heavily abroad, is among the biggest challenges facing our country. There needs to be a renewed interest in American studies, global studies and critical thinking. Too many Americans are unaware of the biases in most information that comes their way and what it takes to remain free.
Round out your education; participate in the Next Big Thing in Model Congress and Model UN Conferences!
“Catastrophic Contagion 2025”
“High-Stakes Climate Policy”
“Arc of War”
– Ukraine, Near East and Taiwan –
A New Kind of Model Congress and Model UN
We conduct a new kind of Model Congress and Model UN. Unlike the norm, it does not emphasize parliamentary maneuver—how to push a bill through Congress or a resolution through the UN. Instead, it provides a highly realistic, substantive experience–stressing the use of primary sources–, a big-picture view of what is actually happening across the nation and world, and an opportunity for each participant to try his or her hand at shaping profoundly important policy.
SDI has conducted four successful, government simulations of the “new” type. Two of these–our “Virus War” Conferences–tackled the Pandemic and the high-level, political and economic US response. One addressed the USMCA. One addressed the National Debt.
Online Conference Date, Time | Registration Opens | Recorded Briefings Available, LIve Webinar | Opening Speech Due | Registration HIghlights | Costs for Individual Conference | Costs for Package of Two Conferences |
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Catastrophic Conntagion 2025, Saturday, 10 AM - 6 PM EST, Recess Noon - 1 pm | TBA | 2 weeks prior; 3 days prior, 7:30 - 9 PM EST | Midnight, 2 days prior. This speech is optional but some conference privileges at stake. | If participant is under 18, Advisor, Parent or Guardian must pay. No group registration. Access to Recorded Briefing will be provided. Advisors may participate in the Conference. | $75 - student $50 - advisor | $140 - student $95 - advisor |
High Stakes Climate Policy, Friday, TBA --- July 20, 10 AM - 6 PM EST, Recess Noon - 1 PM | TBA | July 18, July 19 10 AM - Noon EST | 7 PM, July 19. This speech is optional but some conference privileges at stake. | If participant is under 18, Advisor, Parent or Guardian must pay. No group registration. Access to Recorded Briefing will be provided. Advisors may participate in the Conference. | $75 - student $50 - advisor | $140 - student $95 - advisor |
Arc of War TBA -- Friday, Aug 4, 10 AM - 6 PM EST, Recess Noon - 1 PM | TBA | Aug 2, Aug 3 10 AM - Noon EST | 7 PM, Aug 3. This speech is optional but some conference privileges at stake. | If participant is under 18, Advisor, Parent or Guardian must pay. No group registration. Access to Recorded Briefing will be provided. Advisors may participate in the Conference. | $75 - student $50 - advisor | $140 - student $95 - advisor |
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SDI is inspired and informed by the then US Senator John Quincy Adams, who, in the early 1800s, also chaired the very first Department of Classical Rhetoric, at the college level. Adams wanted to train American youth for greatness the way the Roman-republic elite trained their youth for greatness. He would even go one better, enhancing such training by faith in The Living God. Hence, the rigorous pursuit of Truth.
Tragically, American education in general and even the thriving student forensics circuit falls short of what it could be, in no small part because the globalists hamper critical thinking in our schools. Notice the heavy emphasis in our schools on secondary sources, which, perforce, the globalists can manipulate and limit, through perverse funding.
From 2015 through 2020, SDI was in operation. We coached grades 6-12 and college. The emphasis was upon formal debate (Public Forum and Policy Debate) and upon Model Congress and Model UN.
Once again, SDI would revive the dream of John Quincy Adams. Moreover, we would elevate our youth’s knowledge of history, economics, politics and government.
Ultimately, SDI’s programs revive the ancient paideia, wherein parent and child speak of the common good morning, noon and night. This is especially the case for homeschooling. Our government simulations are cross-generational. They involve youth and faculty, in other words, youth and parents-teachers.
Advance Teams go the extra distance to protect the republic and defeat The Great Reset. Moreover, there is an indispensible synergy between these teams and CfAR top leadership. We support them and they support us.
Choose One of Two Ways to Participate in an Advance Team:
(1) Join a Team of 10.
Purchase a copy of the Great Pivot Study Guide, for $69.50, which includes all fees—handling, shipping, online course platform and taxes. You will receive the Study Guide’s Prison Report and Climate Report, via USPS Ground Advantage. Online access to Leadership Training Module 1 is via link to Thinkific.com. We will offer you a choice of Teams of 10, whether local or online. Teams of 10 and 1 instructor meet three or more times. The Study Guide is a point of departure for our meetings. Often additional information is made available. Teams of 10 work in tandem with Networkers, too. All sales are final. On occasion, two or more Teams of 10 convene together.
(2) Become a Networker, which, in turn, will connect you to a Team of 10.
Invest $12.99. You will receive intelligence briefs, talking points and ice breakers, via email. You are able to advance the Great Pivot, backstopped by the expertise of the assigned Team of 10, and CfAR HQ. All sales are final.
The main point of the Hubs, including Teams of 10 and Networkers, is to advance the Power of Ten, as discussed in the Great Pivot Call to Action.
(3) Additional memberships, including additional leadership training, will be made available. (See, for instance, Leadership Training Modules Two and Three.) We have a rumble channel care of Dr Arminio’s “America Resurgent with Dr Joe Arminio.” Videos for our Locals channel are ready but not yet posted.
Questions: Please call the CfAR HQ, at 302.300.9611.
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