Stanford National Forensic Institute

A common request from families is if they can see a sample schedule for a given program, however we do not publish a detailed daily schedule in advance of any of our sessions for a vareity of reasons, including:

• Inability to confirm specific academic space assisgnments, particularly classrooms, until close to the start date of sessions.
• Confirmation of specific topics at use at particular camp sessions is subject to curriculum planning and research by the academic staff in the leadup to a given session.
• Specific meal times and other fundamental "building blocks" of the schedule are not formally confirmed by the campus until close to the start date of sessions.

For general information on what timings and hours look like for various programs, ex if you are planning to commute to camp, please see our Housing Status page.

We have provided several "sample day" schedule snapshots below to broadly give you a sense of how days at camp progress.  Please note that these come from a prior year and are not necessarily indicitive of any specific program or session, and you should not rely on these examples for planning purposes.

Common questions about the schedule at camp:

• What is lab?  Lab is the eqivalent of a discussion section that breaks off of a larger lecture course at the collegiate level.  This is the place where students conduct research, discuss concepts covered in lecture, participate in initial mini debates, work on speech redos, etc.
• What is room/floor check?  This is when residential students at camp are checked off by the staff to ensure that everyone is accounted for and where they are supposed to be once academc sessions are wrapped up for the day.
• Our FAQ page covers. many other relevant topics

Sample "arrival day" (arrivals for all students):

Sample mid-camp days (note that each day has different content & structure varies during progression through the session):

Sample "final Friday" (last day of academic programming & commuter depeartures):

Sample "departure day" (residential student departures):