O’Connor Institute Ambassadors Civics & Debate Club

Calling all high-school-age leaders! The JOHN JAY FETZER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP is now open! Want to impress colleges, sharpen your leadership talents, connect with other driven students from around the country, enhance your civics knowledge and civil discourse skills, and debate the most important civics topics facing our communities and nation? Look no further: The O’Connor…

Civics Challenge

The 5th annual Civics Challenge is now accepting submissions! The Civics Challenge is an online civics competition for grades 6 through 12. Participants are challenged to choose one civics topic and express their knowledge through various art forms. See categories and topics below! Finalists in two categories, middle school (6th-8th grade) and high school (9th-12th grade),…

Camp O’Connor USA

Camp O’Connor USA is a free, merit-based civics summer program for middle school students with a mission to educate, encourage and inspire the next generation of leaders. Participants in our civics camp gain a deeper, experiential understanding of our nation’s democracy, branches of government, and the duties and responsibilities of citizenship. Camp O’Connor Phoenix will…