“We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open and debating is the best way to do it.”An online debating event for the students across the globe,
e-SAI Global Debate-2022 was organized by
SAI International School, Bhubaneswar on 29th January 2022. Inside every child is a rainbow waiting to shine. So, in order to inculcate debating skills, this opportunity was grabbed by our budding debaters to brush up their oral skills and encourage their flair for debating and debate with the students from different parts of the world.
The debates were to be on three different debating formats mentioned below :1. General Debate
2. Turncoat
3. Extempore
The broad themes for Debate and Turncoat were :1. Cyber Security-is it a necessity for today’s youth
2. Inclusion of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning in the school curriculum.
3. Climate change and its global impact.
After a month’s long, daily online practise schedules, the team of RKK had reformed into a polished set of debaters. Listening to the participants’ debates, turncoats and extempore with vigour, zeal , confidence and enthusiasm was a treat to the visual eyes and the ears. Preparing the students for ‘Rebuttal’ was another knowledge gaining experience where logic and currents affairs were discussed.
Finally on the D day the students delivered their best and the entire team qualified for the finals which was a moment of great honour and pride for the school. Competing with elite national and international schools and fierce debaters is not a mean task but students of RKK participated with sheer grit and hard work and brought laurels to them, to school and their family.
Aarohi Bhattacherjee won the first prize in Turncoat and Bhavi Kumbhat won the Second prize in Argumentative Debate. This added another achievements to RKK’s data of participation and winning.
