Posts Tagged ‘ WSDC ’
USA Red wins International Schools Debate Tournament Ljutomer
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="281"] The Winner of the tournament, USA Red - © ZIP[/caption]
The team USA Red (Ella Michaels, Nikhil Ramaswamy, Ranen Miao) has won the 16th International Debate Tournament Ljutomer, Slovenia from opposition on the motion "TH regrets privatisation of space research and travel" against Logos Bermuda (Vasja Grošelj, Iza Jerman, Taja Kovačič) from Slovenia in proposition.
The final was judged by Anna England Kerr (England) in chair, together with John Tomlinson (England), Ela Jurko (Croatia), Luka Baković (Croatia) and Ann-Sophie Zeipekkis (Germany).
The best speaker of the tournament was Nikhil Ramaswamy from USA Red with an impressive average of 73.67 speaker points.
[caption id="attachment_33763" align="alignright" width="286"] The final of the tournament - © ZIP[/caption]
The tournament was held from the 8th ...
Apr 6th, 2018 |
By Helena Hecke |
Category: International, News of debating clubs, Turniere |
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This month: World Schools Debating Championships in Stuttgart
In addition to debating at universities, competition has spread at schools all over the globe in recent decades. For example, participating countries annually send a delegation of pupils aged 14 to 19 to the World Schools Debating Championships (WSDC), which are comparable to the World Universities Debating Championships. Laura Alviz of the Debating Society Germany e.V. explains what exactly that means. WSDC takes place in Stuttgart next week.
After the German team had to cover long distances in 2014 and 2015 to reach the Southeast Asian cities Bangkok and Singapore, traveling becomes easier this year. WSDC takes place in seven days ...
Jul 13th, 2016 |
By Achte Minute |
Category: International, Mittwochs-Feature, Turniere |
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Facebook vs. real life – Christopher Sanchez about the World Schools Debating Championships 2011
Ahhhh, summer holidays! Finally: Sleeping in, extended breakfast, enjoy the summer day, relax from school. A good book might compete with the all-too-fast online world. Uhm, well, the German delegation who went to the World Schools Debating Championships (WSDC or World Schools) 2011 in Dundee obviuosly meant to do the oppositie of all this: Long trip to Scottland, getting up early in the morning, out into Scottish weather, in to the next debate, out of the debate, doing late night online research for the next day. Tired, hungry, disappointed by losses, totally euphoric from wins, running between venues, competing with ...
Aug 28th, 2011 |
By Achte Minute |
Category: Themen, Turniere |
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