High School Mentorship

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Weekend after weekend, tournament after tournament, high school debate engrossed my life. After coming to college, I did not want to give up the activity. As such, I rechanneled my knowledge into a mentorship role. Once a week, I travel into an impoverished Boston high schools and teach students how to debate effectively and successfully. The students I work with through the Harvard College Mentors for Urban Debate program know nothing about debate. They come in with a blank state. However, through a mentorship process, in the end, they were leaps and bounds ahead of where they started from. I see my potential RCE mentorship role as very similar to my debate mentorship role. Just as Boston high school students have no experience in debate,

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