We are a non-profit volunteer-run organisation that aims to develop, nurture, and promote debating in Singapore. Together with our volunteers, we reach out to those who have not yet discovered debating, and to those who already love the sport. We help schools, teachers, coaches and students by organising competitions, running training programs and camps, and providing resources for them. We work with partners from all industries who are keen to use debates as a means to achieve their objectives.
DA(S) will be holding a full-day adjudicator training session on Saturday Jan 16th at Tampines Junior College (2 Tampines Avenue 9, Singapore 529564). The training session will begin at 10 am and end at 5pm. There will be a one-hour break for lunch, but lunch will not be provided for participants.
The training will be provided free of charge and all trainees will receive a certificate of completion. All trainees must volunteer to shadow adjudicate the prelim rounds at the SSDC2010 in order to receive the certificate of completion and be considered for future adjudication opportunities [exceptions will be granted on a case-by-case basis only]. The shadowing is compulsory, as a theoretical knowledge of adjudication is insufficient unless complemented with real-world training and shadowing of senior adjudicators.
If you would like to register for the camp, please fill in the form below. As capacity for the camp is limited by the number of senior adjudicators available, we encourage all interested participants to sign up early.
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http://www.vimeo.com/8521390
[Video recorded by Alfred Snyder]
More details (and the tab) will be posted soon… but in the meantime, congratulations once again to Sheng Wu (who debated for Singapore at WSDC formerly) on an amazing job!
Dear Debaters, Coaches, Judges, Teachers, and all those in the debate community,
2009 was a challenging, eventful, and exciting year. For the Debate Association (Singapore), we saw a fresh young team come on board to take on the (very rewarding) challenge of spreading our passion for debating to a new generation of students. The team rolled out many new programs, a new web experience (you’re browsing it now!)… and we’re still not done yet! 2010 will see us making an announcement that may change the inter-school debate landscape for many years to come – but we don’t want to spoil the surprise just yet. 2010 will also see us launching the Debate Luminaries Program (a series of talks by eminent local debaters), a few more non-WSDC style debate competitions to add spice to the circuit, and (fingers tightly crossed) will have us re-launching The Arena (Season 3) with Mediacorp on TV. We are also launching some programs tailored exclusively for our members – the exclusive interview with Singapore’s WSDC team that made it to the Grand Finals in 2007 will only be made available to members.
With so many things to look forward to, I’m sure 2010 will be a great way to start the new decade. We wish all our members and readers a Happy (and debate-filled) New Year!
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Google’s Street View application was launched in Singapore in Dec 2009, providing free virtual-tour/photo-mapping for all of Singapore using their special camera-mounted cars. Read the Singapore article here.
Internationally, this free service has caused much dismay and concern. Some privacy advocates are worried that the service is an intrusion that citizens cannot “opt out” of – even if you do not want your house to be photographed, there is nothing legally preventing Google from doing so. Security officials are even more worried – would this tool allow terrorists and criminals to plan their attacks better? This side of the argument feels that Google needs to be stopped today – because as the photography resolution gets better in a few years, Google Street View will be able to take high-resolution images of people changing in their apartments, or even clear photographs of barcodes on the ID tags of security guards for criminals to copy.
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