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The World Individual Debating and Public

Speaking Championships

29 March – 4 April 2012 | Brisbane, Australia

The World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championships 2012

WIDPSC Hosts

The World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championships were started at Reading Blue Coat School in 1988.

The sites of the World’s since are listed below:

1987 – 88 Reading Blue Coat School, England

1988 – 89 Reading Blue Coat School and Queen Anne’s School, England


1990 – 91 Taunton School, England

1991 – 92 Aylesbury School, England



1994 – 95 The English School, Cyprus



1997 – 98 Northlands School, Argentina

1998 – 99 Maru A Pula School, Botswana


2000 – 01 Queen Anne’s School, England

2001 – 02 Michaelhouse School, South Africa

2002 – 03 Queen Anne’s School, England

2003 – 04 Wasatch Academy, USA


2005 – 06 The Hotchkiss School, USA

2006 – 07 Bishop’s College, South Africa

2007 – 08 German Debating Society, Germany


2009 – 10 Debate Centre, Lithuania

2010 – 11 Moreton Bay Boys’ College, Australia

2011 – 12 Moreton Bay Boys’ College, Australia

2012 – 13 Clifton School, South Africa

You can speak

well if your

tongue can

deliver the

message of

your heart.

- John Ford

29 March – 4 April 2012 Brisbane, Australia

Welcome to Moreton Bay Boys’ College and the 2012 World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championships.

I am delighted to welcome you not just to the College, but also to Brisbane, to Queensland, where it is indeed beautiful one day and perfect the next (despite the occasional flood or cyclone) and of course to Australia, the land ‘down under’. As you can see, this is a beautiful campus – one that hosts a rare and endangered orchid - and a lovely setting on the hillside overlooking the sand islands of Moreton Bay.

Moreton Bay Boys’ College was founded in 2003, and as an International Baccalaureate school, is committed to helping young men become successful productive global citizens. Knowledge and respect for other cultures, the capacity to see the other point of view and the ability to develop relationships and understanding through global communication are all key qualities in being a responsible and inclusive global citizen. It is wonderful through your presence to have the while world come to our door.

I extend a warm welcome to each of you, on behalf of the college and its community. We look forward to spending time with you so that we can learn from each other, progress the cause of effective speaking and create lasting memories of what we expect to be a great occasion.

Jennifer Haynes

Principal

Moreton Bay Boys’ College

Dear Guests:

Speak clearly,

if you speak at

all; carve every

word before you

let it fall.

- Oliver Wendell

Holmes


Dear Guests:

I offer a warm welcome to all our visitors to the 2012 World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championships. I am delighted that you can spend some time with us and that you have the opportunity to experience some of our wonderful country.

Moreton Bay Boys’ College is proud and honoured to play host again to this prestigious event. Our college was established in 2003 and has been built on the foundations of research, reason and relationships. To me, the WIDPS championships provide tangible evidence of the importance of these qualities.

As an International Baccalaureate school we are committed to helping our young men to become successful global citizens so we look forward to the opportunity to learn from each other and to cement our global connections.

I wish every competitor the best of success. I am looking forward to being entertained, challenged, inspired and amazed by the talented young men and women who will be competing over the next few days.

Events like this don’t just happen without a great deal of organisation and preparation. I especially want to thank Ms Naomi Williams and her hard working committee for all their efforts in bringing these championships to fruition. They have been well supported by the entire MBBC and MBC communities, for which I am grateful.

So, enjoy the championships and your time in Brisbane and Australia. I hope that through these championships you make new friends, learn more about yourselves and return home with memories that might last a life time.

Tony Wood

Head of College

Make sure you

have finished

speaking before

your audience

has finished

listening.

- Dorothy Sarnoff


Dear WIDPSC Friends,

The indigenous people of this great land founded a culture rich with stories, songs and dance. Their stories and songs were carried from tribe to tribe through 600 clans who all shared a unique relationship with the land and everything in it. It is hard to say how far and for how long these stories travelled in the course of time over the Australian continent, but it is here that the great storytelling tradition of Australia began - with the passionate sharing of heart-felt wisdom.

D.H. Lawrence said, Be still when you have nothing to say: when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot. This is what I love about Worlds – you all speak genuinely with regard to subjects about which you are passionate. You deliver them in an eloquent, articulate and fervent manner. You use your heads to capture our hearts and boy does the debate get heated sometimes! Your ability to communicate and gain recognition and respect for your ideas and opinions is important. You have a voice and this is only one forum in which to make it heard. This week, whatever you have to say; say it loud and say it hot!

In a day and age when everyone has an opinion; when everyone has a ‘social forum’ through which to voice that opinion what this [world] needs is more free speech worth listening to. (Henry Brooks Adams) What you do here at Worlds is cut through the useless chatter and deliver relevant messages about our world and the human condition. Our world is rich with cultural diversity; however, it is also full to the brim with social, cultural and environmental problems. It is your ability to communicate these issues with generosity, kindness and respect for each other’s human dignity that makes Worlds such a valuable and enlightening experience for all. Every year you help us see the problem, you encourage us to feel it with our hearts, to allow us to hear the plight of the less fortunate and, sometimes…more importantly, you provoke us to laugh at ourselves. What [you] say is important…for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. (Jim Beggs) Your task this week is to fervently and yet respectfully, debate your thoughts and ideas with your international peers; to form friendships; and take home a greater understanding of the world and of each other.

It has taken many months to pull together WIDPSC 2012 and deliver you a Worlds that is comparable to the we staged for you in 2011. I can not believe that the day has finally arrived. My hard work is done – yours is but to begin. So it is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championships of 2012. May your Australian experience be everything that you thought it would be.

As George Washington said …you can not restrain the voices of the multitude and so I hand it over to you. This is your event, make it fabulous and enjoy every moment of your days in Brisbane, at Moreton Bay Boys’ College, at the 25th WIDPSC. I will not wish you luck; you already have what it takes to succeed.

Yours truly,

Naomi Williams

Convenor

Let thy speech

be better than

silence, or be

silent.

- Dionysius Of

Halicarnassus


There are two

things that are

more difficult

than making

an after-

dinner speech:

climbing a

wall which is

leaning toward

you and

kissing a girl

who is leaning

away from you.

- Winston Churchill

Schedule

14:30 Arrival of teams to Brisbane

15:00 – 16:00 Registration MBBC Hall

16:00 – 17:00 Opening Ceremony MBBC Hall

17:00 – 17:30 Group photo of Participants MBBC Hall

18:00 Pick up and evening with host family MBBC Hall

Thursday March 29, 2012Time Details Venue

8:00 – 9:00 Rules Meeting and Judges Briefing Lecture Theatre

9:00 – 10:30 Impromptu Speaking – Round 1 G/H/C Block

10:30 – 12:00 Interpretive Reading – Round 1 G/H/C Block

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch MBBC Hall

13:00 Motions for debate (GROUP A) G/H/C Block

13:30 – 14:00 Judges Briefing for Debating Lecture Theatre

13:45 – 14:15 Debate (A) – Round 1 G/H/C Block

14:00 Motions for debate (GROUP B) G/H/C Block

14:45 – 15:15 Debate (B) – Round 1 G/H/C Block

15:15 – 16:00 Break MBBC Hall

16:00 – 18:30 Persuasive/After Dinner Speaking – Round 1 G/H/C Block

18:30 Board Buses Roundabout

19:00 AMF Bowling Cannon Hill


22:00 Host families to collect MBBC Car Park

Friday March 30, 2012Time Details Venue

8:00 – 8:30 Meeting for the competitors and coaches Lecture Theatre

8:30 – 9:00 Judges Briefing for Debating and Impromptu Lecture Theatre

9:00 – 10:30 Impromptu Speaking – Round 2 G/H/C Block



13:00 Motions for Debate (Group A) G/H/C Block

13:45 – 14:15 Debate (A) – Round 2 G/H/C Block


14:00 Motions for Debate (Group B) G/H/C Block

14:45 – 15:15 Debate (B) – Round 2 G/H/C Block

15:15 – 16:00 Break MBBC Hall

16:00 – 18:30 Persuasive/After Dinner Speaking – Round 2 G/H/C Block


19:00 Dinner Manly Village Pizzeria

21:00 Board Buses Manly Village Pizzeria


Saturday March 31, 2012Time Details Venue


9:00 – 9:30 Meeting for the competitors and coaches Lecture Theatre


11:00 Arrive at Dreamworld Coomera

11:00 – 16:00 Day at Dreamworld Coomera

16:30 Board Buses to return to MBBC Coomera

17:30 Dinner – Yatala Pies Yatala

19:30 Host Families to Collect MBBC Car Park

Sunday April 1, 2012Time Details Venue

8:00 – 8:30 Meeting for competitors/coaches to announce finalists Lecture Theatre

8:30 – 12:00 FINALS: • Interpretive Reading G Block

• After Dinner Speaking

• Persuasive Speaking

• Impromptu

• Debate


13:00 – 16:00 Sailing – Cat-O-Nine-Tails Moreton Bay

17:00 Pick up and evening with host family MBBC Car Park

19:30 Dinner for Coaches - AGM G Block

Monday April 2, 2012Time Details Venue

8:00 – 8:30 Meeting for competitors/coaches to announce Grand finalists Lecture Theatre

8:30 Board Buses MBBC Car Park

9:00 – 12:00 Morning at Southbank Southbank

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Southbank

13:30 Board Buses Southbank

15:00 – 17:30 GRAND FINALS: • Interpretive Reading Lecture Theatre

• Debate

• Impromptu

• Persuasive Speaking

• After Dinner Speaking

Awards and Closing Speeches


18:30 Banquet Kookaburra River Queen



Tuesday April 3, 2012Time Details Venue

Departures

Wednesday April 4, 2012Time Details Venue


AustraliaCompetitors:Tegan Baker Moreton Bay CollegeAnkita Bellary Moreton Bay CollegeAlix Biggs Canberra Girls GrammarMikaela Brusasco Brisbane Girls’ GrammarPeter Crisp Moreton Bay Boys’ CollegeGeorgia Collings Moreton Bay CollegeAlexandra Farrell Ravenswood School for GirlsEmma Henke Ravenswood School for GirlsMatthew Jarrett St. Kevin’s CollegeKai Leippins Moreton Bay Boys’ CollegeNeil Kemister Trinity CollegeKatie McAllister Great Southern GrammarBridget Payne Ravenswood School for GirlsSamantha Tauber Ravenswood School for Girls

Coaches:Jillian Burgess Ravenswood School for GirlsAnne Byrne Brisbane Girls’ GrammarKelly Gallivan St. Kevin’s CollegeRima Khallouf Trinity GrammarRobyn McNamara Moreton Bay CollegeValda Wieland Great Southern GrammarNaomi Williams Moreton Bay Boys’ College

CanadaCompetitors:Justice Betty The Bishop Strachan SchoolConnor Campbell De La Salle CollegeZephi Kramer St. John’s SchoolAnisah Mahomed Branksome HallAriel Malamedoff Gray AcademyRyan Pistoriu St. John’s RavenscourtAli Poonja Stathcona-Tweedsmuir SchoolJulia Qin West Canada High SchoolRyan Sherbo St. John’s RavenscourtRobert Sniderman The York SchoolSamantha Starkey West Point Grey AcademyDan Ton - That Selwyn House SchoolNandini Thogarapalli Sir Winston Churchill High SchoolElla Thomson Balmoral Hall

Coaches:Tanya Boteju The York SchoolTracy Dalglish Branksome Hall Leonard Fink Strathcona-Tweedsmuir SchoolSylvia Haywatd ChaperoneAndrew Kaplan Gray AcademyBrendan Lea The Bishop Strachan SchoolGrace Nolan The York SchoolJohn Robinson St. John’s RavenscourtRhonda Smith Balmoral HallDrew Vodrey St. John’s School

2012 Competitors

CyprusCompetitors:Theodorou Efthyma The English SchoolElina Matter The English SchoolAlexandros Theoklitou The English SchoolStathopoulos Yiorgos The English School

Coaches:James Corkhill The English SchoolKaren Mason The English SchoolGeorge Vanavides The English School

Hong KongCompetitors:Sarah Ku Hong Kong School Debate CouncilJustin Lee Hong Kong School Debate CouncilEunice Leung Hong Kong School Debate CouncilEsther Mak Hong Kong School Debate CouncilClaudia Tam Hong Kong School Debate CouncilRyan Tang Hong Kong School Debate CouncilLucien Wang Hong Kong School Debate CouncilBrian Wong Hong Kong School Debate Council

Coaches:Steven Lee Hong Kong School Debate CouncilRoy Allen Hong Kong School Debate Council

IndiaCompetitors:Sayuj Dhandhania The Doon SchoolHaider Hussain The Doon SchoolAbhinav Kejriwal The Doon SchoolYuvan Kumar The Doon SchoolAgarwal Pulkit The Doon SchoolNagpal Vrindam The Doon School

Coach:Priyanka Bhattacharya The Doon School

IsraelCompetitor:Josh Kalman Ankori School

LithuaniaCompetitors:Aira Bekerytė Kaunas Jonas Jablonskis GymnasiumGreta Gervyte Panevezys Gymnasium No. 5Egle Kavaliunaite Kaunas Jonas Jablonskis GymnasiumEleonora Lekaviciute Kaunas Jesuit GymnasiumPovilas Rutauskas Kaunas Jesuit Gymnasium

Coach:Alina Gutauskiene Kaunas Jesuit Gymnasium


South AfricaCompetitors:Nicholas Cullinan Bishops CollegeTimothy de Wet ParklandsAnisha Dhaya Hudson ParkNatasha Dusabe ClarendonLuke Hannan Hudson ParkDonae Loggenberg Hudson ParkGareth Meyer Hudson ParkJordan Pfotenhauer Thomas MoreZanele Potelwa Hudson ParkRyan Prithraj Glenwood

Coaches:John Holtman Bishops College Ronwyn Pearce Hudson Park

South KoreaCompetitors:Min Chul Cho Korea Forensics LeagueJonathon Hong Soon Kim Korea Forensics LeagueSang Hyun Park Korea Forensics LeagueJi Hyun Park Korea Forensics LeagueHye-jeong Jeong Korea Forensics LeagueYeonsoo Suh Korea Forensics League

Coach:Dan Meadors Korea Forensics League

United Arab EmiratesCompetitors:Abbas Ali Victorian International School of SharjahMadeline Howell Victorian International School of SharjahAmir Abdel-Moneim Victorian International School of SharjahGawhar Mohammad Yusuf Victorian International School of SharjahTamhina Mohammad Yusuf Victorian International School of Sharjah

Coaches:Alan Russell Victorian International School of Sharjah

United States of AmericaCompetitors:Julia Davis-Porada St. Paul’s SchoolBen Della Rocca Choate Rosemary HallJulius Dixon The Hotchkiss SchoolCaley Henderson Kingswood Oxford SchoolElizabeth Hiss The Winsor SchoolCharles Jones Deerfield AcademyMatthew Kahn Kingswood Oxford SchoolFranklin Li Roxbury Latin SchoolMatthew Lloyd-Thomas Phillips AcademyJane Logan Stoneleigh Burnam SchoolSpence Murray Kingswood Oxford SchoolPriyanka Sekhar The Hotchkiss SchoolNathaniel Warner Choate Rosemary Hall

Coach:Ted Levine Kingswood-Oxford School


Sponsors

A special thank you...

...to all those who made this competition possible:

The wonderful staff of MBBC/MBC – especially; Ms. Jennifer Haynes, Mr. Tony Wood, Dr. Deborah Priest, Mrs. Sarah Devonshire, Mrs. Sonja Bancroft, Mrs. Kerrie Smiley, Mrs. Cadzow Andreas, Mrs. Jan Lepp, Mrs. Alexandra Givney, Mr. Steven Box, Mr. Dylan Troyhan, Mr. David Pekham, Mrs. Paula Jowitt, Mrs. Diana Patchett, Mrs. Robyn McNamara, Ms. Melissa Kafferky, Ms. Elena Pappas

President of the P&F Mr. David Bancroft, Mrs Suzi Fischer

The MBBC and MBC Parent community

The Student Body

Time Keepers and Chairpersons

MBC Choir

The Percussion Ensemble

Rotary Club of Wynnum Manly

Lions Club of Wynnum Manly

MBBC Leos Club

Queensland Rostrum

And, finally, to all Friends, Colleagues and ex-Public Speakers who are judging at this competition and hosting the competitors in their homes.

Naomi Williams

Convenor

Rotary Club of Wynnum & Manly


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