QatarDebate Center, a member of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, has organised a summer camp for youngsters within the students' activity forum at the Education City.
The camp aims to introduce the importance of debate art as a vital life-skill that promotes the culture of dialogue through which students acquire skills of critical thinking, since debate is a critical form of investment in posterity to help them utilise tools that make them develop themselves and chart a prosperous future for their homeland.
The five-day camp, dedicated to 10 to 13-year-old students, held workshops that combined joy with learning, to provide them with the opportunity to explore concepts that are relevant to debate through theoretical and practical activities, in addition to helping them acquire new experiences during summer vacations and investing in leisure time by enriching their knowledge and abilities by offering a wide range of educational and interactive activities,workshops that benefit them in their daily life.
The camp programme focused on several beneficial themes, including development of public speaking skills by learning how to properly deliver speeches, methods of preparing inaugural speeches and convincing the recipients. The workshops also addressed enhancing leadership, community, and cultural capabilities of the participants, as well as basics of planning to achieve best results, learning about the art of debate and understanding its elements and methods of application.
The trainer Farah Alharbi outlined that the key objective of the camp was to equip young people with keys of critical and logical thinking, along with proper conversation that is based on respecting others' opinion in the debate style, which represents a practical model to enable them to hold these keys in a more effective and attractive manner. The recreational activities helped the participants develop their creativity, in addition to developing their knowledge abilities as well as providing them with life-skills, and in particular to upgrade their skills in debate, Alharbi said.
