#1 Ranked Varsity Public Forum Debate Camp

Christian has worked as an assistant debate coach at the Blake School in Minneapolis, MN since 2014. Since then he has coached multiple major invitational champions, state champions, national champions (NDCA and TOC), and PF Season Excellence Award winners along with finalists and other deep elimination round participants. Since 2015, Christian has worked as a senior lab leader at the Harvard Debate Council’s Summer Workshops, a Director of Public Forum at Dartmouth Debate Initiative(2017) and a Curriculum Coordinator/Senior lab leader at the National Debate Forum(2017-2021). He’s excited to bring a love for activity and hopes to share that with students at PFBC this summer.  

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Bryce Piotrowski is the Director of Forensics at St. Lukes. While a student at the University of Minnesota – go Gophs! – Bryce coached Public Forum for the Lakeville Debate Team, growing the squad from a couple of students to a nationally competitive squad of a dozen debaters. Bryce also served as the President of the student-run Minnesota NPDA (National Parliamentary Debate Association) team, winning the Minnesota state tournament three times. Bryce has coached Public Forum at summer camps since graduating from high school, and served as the Director of the Dartmouth Debate Institute’s Public Forum Division in 2020, Senior Instructor at the National Debate Forum from 2018 to 2021, and an instructor at the Minnesota Debate Institute in 2018 and 2019. Bryce is excited to co-direct the fifth session of PFBC!

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Katheryne did three years of national circuit PF for Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland, where she was a three time qualifier to the TOC. As a competitor, she won several bid tournaments and earned multiple top speaker awards. Some notable accomplishments include: top speaker at Lexington, Lakeland, and the Harvard Round Robin, top-5 speaker awards at Valley, Blake, the Blake Round Robin, and Bronx, semifinalist at the TOC, 2x champion of the Valley Mid-America Cup (2020 and 2021), finalist at the Harvard Round Robin, semifinalist at Blake and the Blake Round Robin, and quarterfinalist at Harvard, Blake, and Stanford. As a coach, Katheryne has worked as an assistant at Taipei American School as well as ISD and NSD, where she has worked with multiple TOC qualifiers and highly competitive students. As an assistant coach, she has helped her students make deep runs and champion multiple national tournaments, most notably placing 3rd at NSDA nationals, championing the Cavalier Invitational, and much more. As a coach, Katheryne emphasizes fundamental skills and drill-based work to build a solid foundation in debate for her students. She also has experience with responding to and adapting critical argumentation styles to PF. Katheryne is very excited to join NDC and believes that the structure of working closely with four students over the course of an entire season fosters community and the best opportunity to refine skills and push for a successful competitive season! She greatly looks forward to meeting all of you.