Grade 12 Student in Cordillera is ‘Overall Best Speaker’ in International Debate

Baguio city - Grade 12, Pisay scholar Robert Nelson Leung of the Philippine Science High School - Cordillera Administrative Region Campus (PSHS-CAR) wins the title of ‘Overall Best Speaker’ in the global competition for high school debaters known as World Schools Debating Championships (WSDC). According to WSPC Board of Directors Andrew Fitch, the WSDC was conducted through online platforms with 132 judges in every single round, all coordinating for the participations of 74 countries. In a Facebook post of PSHS on August 15, 2021, they have congratulated Leung.

Meanwhile, members of the Philippine high school debate team were also acknowledged. Other winners were also named to include David Bloom emerged as the 4th Best Speaker from the International School of Manila, Jake Peralta garnered 6th Best Speaker from Southridge High School, and Riva Fong as the 11th Best Speaker from De La Salle Zobel.

WSDC is considered to be the ‘Olympics of high school debate’ by debate societies.

Said debating event encourages and advances the education of young people with their communication skills to promote international understanding and free speech towards Excellencies.

It was made possible through the joint organization of Qatar Debate, Debating Society of Germany, and Macau English Debating Association with 200 student-volunteers from the Anglo Chinese Junior College in Singapore that has provided support to all the debaters, judges, coaches, and observers attending the event.

Said event was hosted by Macau from July 26 to August 6, 2021.

World School Debating Championship (WSDC) WSDC is an annual global debate competition that began in 1988, which started in Australia’s bicentennial year. Six nations from Australia, Canada, England, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and the United States competed in the ‘Bicentennial International School Students Debating Championships’.

The event was renamed the World Schools Debating Championships in 1991. It uses the World Schools format, the global standard for high school debating. The Championships, later on, take place each year in a different country and hosted by a national debating body, making it a truly international competition.

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