Welcome to the Mean Green Comet Scholars Lab blog! The Mean Green Scholars Lab is the 20 day policy debate lab at the Mean Green Comet Debate Institute . The Scholars Lab is run by National Championship coaches Phil Samuels and Gabe Murillo, check out their full bios here . The Scholars lab is a skills and strategy intensive lab. Between practice rounds, speech redos, mini debates, and other speech activities students will be thinking about and executing debate strategy every day of the institute. Students will leave the institute with a solid understanding of debate arguments and strategy, prepared to not only execute on the topic generics produced by the camp but also to develop and write new and innovative arguments. Students will learn to exceed in their circuits. Special time is taken to teach students to adapt their speaking style and arguments to the common set of judges they will encounter during their season. The Scholars Lab has excelled in training debaters to succeed