The grand finals for Wits & Words 2010 was held at Nanyang Girls’ High School on 1 Jun 2010 and attracted an audience of almost one thousand people. Here’s an update of the results of the round.
Champion Team: Rosyth School
Runner Up: Nanyang Primary School
Motion: This house believes that fairy tales do more harm than good
Congratulations to the winning teams!
Photographs from the event:
DIVISION I
Champions:
Hwa Chong Institution
Runners-up:
Raffles Institution
Third-Place:
Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)
Fourth-Place:
Catholic High School
Quarter-Finalists:
Methodist Girls’ School
Nanyang Girls’ High School
Singapore Chinese Girls’ School
St. Joseph’s Institution
Champion Team: Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)
Runner Up: Hwa Chong Institution
Best Speaker for the Finals: Yeo En Fei Walter (ACS(I))
Video of the MIDC 2010 Grand Finals:
http://www.vimeo.com/11344206Congratulations to all the teams (especially the winners) who took part!
The full results for the competition are:
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Congratulations to the following teams for making it through to the Semi Finals (to be held at RI this Friday 16th Apr evening):
Division I
ACS (Independent)
Hwa Chong Institution
Raffles Institution
Catholic High
Division II
ACS (Barker Road)
Bowen Secondary School
St. Anthony’s Canossian Secondary
Chung Cheng High (Yishun)
Division III
ACS (International)
Bukit View Secondary School
Kent Ridge Secondary School
CHIJ St. Joseph’s Convent
Wits & Words: Top 4 Teams
The Debating Association (Singapore) together with Gifted Education Branch, MOE and Hwa Chong institution jointly launched Wits & Words 2010, a national primary school debating competition, which saw 33 teams participating this year. Three preliminary rounds were held in Hwa Chong Institution since March, with teams vying for a spot in the semi-finals.
We are now happy to announce that the following top 4 teams (listed in alphabetical order) have made it into the semi-finals to be held on 21 April at Teachers Network, Grange Road:
Semi-finalists for Wits & Words 2010
Nanyang Primary School
Park View Primary School
Rosyth School
St Joseph’s Institution Junior
Random Photographs from the Prelim rounds
We are also happy to announce the top 20 teams (overall), and the top 10
teams for each zone. The results are given in alphabetical order of school
name. (more…)
Congratulations to the top speakers and teams from the recently-completed SMU Hammers. The results of the competition are included below the break.
Motions from Round 2:
6pm – This House believes that the United States should not withdraw troops from Iraq
7:15pm – This House regrets that Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize
8:30pm - This House would impose a tax on large bonuses paid to bankers
Results of Round 2:
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