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"Build your child's confidence and communication skills early and they'll never have to stand shaking at the podium in high school or later in life. Start early. Help children learn public speaking skills that will last them a life time!"

AGAPE Leaders Prep was founded in 2008 with the goal of building confidence, creativity, and leadership in students ranging from elementary to high school students through Public Speaking & Debate, Abacus Math Club, Reading and Writing Club, and Academic Tutoring programs.

Over the past few years, we have helped over 500 students to become confident and effective speakers, math enthusiasts, and critical thinkers and writers. The parents of the participants have seen the dramatic change in their children's confidence level and abiilty to communicate more effectively and academic performance in Reading, Writing, and Arithmetics. They were truly amazed by the outcome of the program.

At AGAPE Leaders Prep, we aim to instill in our children the following 5 qualities:

Confidence - Belief in yourself and your abilities
Creativity - The desire to create and invent
Leadership - Leading yourself and others
Curiosity - The passion to learn and discover
Thinking - The inquisitive mind

Public Speaking & Debate Workshop for Kids & Youths

Debate is a fantastic activity. You'll improve your communication, research, organization, and presentation skills. You learn to disagree without getting angry. You'll learn how to be effective in discussions. You'll learn to deal with fears of speaking. You'll improve your critical thinking skills. Debate is an amazingly powerful educational activity; it will involve you more than any class you have ever taken. Debate will prepare you for college and a life of greater success.

At AGAPE Leaders Prep, we support you. We know it takes courage to speak and we know the effort you'll put into making your arguments. We understand students who are nervous about speaking; students who have strong opinions that they want to express; and students who want to learn how to organize their thoughts and express them effectively. At AGAPE Leaders Prep, we will work one-on-one with you to realize your goals in a supportive environment.

AGAPE Leaders Debate Team

AGAPE Leaders Debate Team offers program options for students of all experience levels, from students with little or no formal debate training to students who aspire to win the national championship. Our philosophy focuses on balancing research and lectures with ample practice debates and speeches so that students are able to apply immediately the theories and strategies they have discussed.

The strength of our team is our faculty. Collectively our staff has coached or won over a dozen championships including the NFL nationals and the tournament of champions. The AGAPE staff is dedicated to ensuring that students have the best possible team experience. Our staff is composed of very successful high school and college coaches as well as some of the best college debaters in the nation.

Educational Benefits:

Students who are involved in the debate team have a number of advantages over their peers:

* They demonstrate higher levels of critical thinking and intellectual curiosity.

* They excel in written and oral communication, and greatly improve their reading comprehension.

* The average debate student is in the top 10% of his or her high school class.

* Over 150 colleges and universities actively recruit debaters for admission and scholarship.

Personal Benefits:

Students who are involved in the debate team garner a number of personal benefits:

* They are more likely to be self-confident and independent.

* They tend to feel more included and accepted socially.

* Debate students show more maturity in the face of adversity and tend to develop stronger relationships with peers and mentors than the

average student.

* Learning debate improves their ability to cooperate and resolve conflicts.