The Morning Program offers a series of modules for students to enhance their listening skills, form critical thinking directives, constructively work in teams, and participate in Model United Nations. All of the classes provide myriad opportunities for students to improve their public speaking prowess. We emphasize to our students how to think logically when faced with challenges and puzzles in an individual and collective setting. Students who have prior debate knowledge are placed into a competitive, yet less daunting environment. Both novice and experienced students will learn to apply their knowledge and theories in a completely new manner, and most importantly, they will have fun along the way!

The Afternoon Program provides a collective of modules for students to improve their presentation skills, expand their critical thinking capabilities, work harmoniously in teams, and participate in the Young Entrepreneurship Seminar. Each of the classes emphasize the significance of public speaking, and students are taught how to properly construct their rhetoric in a manner that encompasses logos, pathos, and ethos. Students who have prior experience in debate will be placed into a new setting that removes them from the strict format of argumentation, and so, both novice and experienced students start on an equal foundation. The games, puzzles, and challenges that students will face are foremost fun and students will understand how to analyze the shortcoming and excellence of both themselves and their classmates. ​

Students enrolled in the Full Day (morning and afternoon) experience receive the best of both sessions with no overlap. All of the students will receive a fourty-five minute break after the end of the Morning Session at Noon before resuming at 12:45 PM for the second half of the Program. This cohort will be able to participate in a full-day’s worth of brain teasers, puzzles, and challenges that will test their listening comprehension, note-taking effectiveness, analytical capabilities, presentation skills, critical thinking prowess, and participate in both Model United Nation and the Young Entrepreneurship Seminar. Students will not repeat any lessons offered in both of the Sessions. All of our students previously enrolled in the Full Day experience have noted how much they’ve grown in our short time together, and this is reflected in their work ethic, public speaking, and characters. We are eager to join you on your journey to enjoying the Full Day experience and we know that every single day, regardless of the lessons that are synthesized, you will have fun each step of the way!

Our PF Labs centralize on the analyses of the two potential topics for the months of September and October. Gaining as much background and specific knowledge as possible through structured topic analyses will give our students a competitive advantage at the start of the debate season. Students from previous PF Labs have consistently cited their time with us over the Summer as a significant reason for their impressive track-records in state-level and national-level tournaments throughout September and October. The incoming cohort will be split into the appropriate classes based on their class level during the academic year, age, and grade.

Who should enroll?
PF Labs are intended for students with at least one year of prior experience in debate (at or beyond Level 2B) with intentions to start competing in the upcoming debate season. The grade levels potential students must be within the range of rising 7th graders to rising 12th graders. The students enrolling in PF Labs do not need background knowledge on the September/October topics.