Wednesday, December 31, 2008

La Salle Debate Society Successfully Holds the 1st Sorsogon Debate Congress

In realization of the Lasallian Education for Adjudication and Debate (LEAD), the La Salle Debate Society (LSDS) flew four members last December 13-14 - after an invitation from Sorsogon State College (SSC) Sorsogon City to the 1st Sorsogon Debate Congress held in SSC to facilitate the two-day workshop on Asians Parliamentary Debate for secondary and tertiary students, and adjudication for teacher-moderators. The event underscored the launching of SSC to be the Sorsogon’s Provincial Center for British and Asians Parliamentary Debates. The event gathered over a hundred student debaters and teacher-moderators from four campuses of Sorsogon State College and from other schools and universities. A talk by LSDS on how to establish a debate society was broadcasted in two radio stations (DZMS-AM and DWLH-FM) the exhibitions debate was broadcasted live in a local television station.

The facilitators include the current La Salle Debate Society President and Team Captain, Dino Singson de Leon (AB-DSM/IV), the current Executive Treasurer Jasper Alvin Go (PSM-BMG/IV), the current Executive Vice President for Administrative Affairs Robin Michael Garcia (AB-DSM/III) and an alumnus of the debate society and current elected Chairperson of the Asian Universities Debate Union (AUDU) Estelle Ople Osorio (AB-POM/ 07’)

The Lasallian Education on Adjudication and Debate (LEAD) aims to educate and spread to secondary and tertiary student’s the culture of debating and at the same time the rich Lasallian tradition of debating and adjudication. The effort includes coaching, mentoring and facilitating seminars to high school and college debate teams for various debate tournaments here and abroad and to teach basic and advanced debate knowledge and skills. Moreover, the program prides itself for organizing for the 6th time to date the largest and most notable high school debate tournament in the Philippines – The National Asians High School Debate Championships (NaSHDC) which gathers hundreds of debaters from different secondary educational institutions all over the Philippines. Next year however the program will have a breakthrough, the NaSHDC will expand to accommodate debaters from all over the Asian region which is a first in the history of Philippine debating.

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