Inter House Debate Competition at WIS, Udaipur

Debate is one of the academic activities that gives students creative room to express what they feel. The length and breadth of knowledge that they gain through this is simply unparallel. The Inter house Debate competition for Grade 5 to Grade 8 was held on 19^th December 2015. The format of the debate was a bit different as the day witnessed the prelims wherein junior group of all the four houses Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald and Topaz had to debate on the topic “Western culture has done more harm than good to our culture” and the senior group exhibited their debating skills on the topic “Marks and Grades do not reflect students’ intelligence”. It was very evident that the teams were well prepared and they used various skills like overstatement, definition, irony etc. to convince the audience. The participants, armed with statistics and data made their arguments more emphatic with their righteous facial expressions, body movement and gestures. All the four houses exhibited great oratorical skills but finally the three houses from both groups were declared winners, they were Topaz, Emerald and Sapphire from junior group and Sapphire, Ruby and Topaz from senior group. The finals will be held shortly and it is expected to be laced with more nail biting moments and an intense face off.