Faculty Profiles: Dario Camara
Dario Camara is currently the director of forensics at Royal Palm Beach
High School in Florida. He previously worked as the debate coach at Ridge
High School in New Jersey. Royal Palm Beach is currently ranked among the
top programs in Palm Beach County and the Florida Forensic League. It
consists of over sixty participants who successfully compete in all levels
of speech and debate. Prior to that, Dario graduated from The College of
New Jersey with a BA in Film & Communications and was a very successful LD
Debater for all four high school years at East Side High School in New
Jersey.
Among several state titles, Dario has coached debaters to a number of late
rounds at some of the top debate tournaments including Harvard, Yale,
Princeton, Glenbrooks, Hendrick Hudson (Bump), Lexington, Newark, Apple
Valley, Blake, Tournament of Champions and Nationals. Some highlights
include, the 2003 & 2006 National Forensic League Student Congress
Champion, the 2003 NCFL Grand Nationals Lincoln Douglas Champion and the
2007 NCFL Nationals Grand Lincoln Douglas Runner-up (2nd place), 2002 Yale
Debate LD Champion, 2003 and 2007 Princeton University Lincoln Douglas
Debate Champion. Some 2007-2008 highlights include duo finalists at Winter
Springs, oratory and duo interpretation at Blue Key at the University of
Florida, extempore speaking and oratory Dowling Catholic Paradigm. Dario
has successfully coached a number of students to the Tournament of
Champions and recently coached all debate spots to Nationals, while some
students have placed within the top ten at Nationals every year since he
began coaching. Over 30 students have qualified under the direction of
Dario Camara and his program remains one of the strongest in the nation.
