{"id":33335,"date":"2017-01-11T11:35:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=33335"},"modified":"2017-01-11T11:35:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:35:35","slug":"uhs-students-reach-top-32-in-international-debate-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=33335","title":{"rendered":"UHS students reach Top 32 in international debate competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2013 Students from Unionville High School in <\/b>have advanced to the \u201cTop 32\u201d round of the International Public Policy Forum (IPPF).<\/span><\/p>\n

Sponsored by the Brewer Foundation and New York University, the IPPF is the first and only debate competition that gives high school students around the world the opportunity to engage in written and oral debates on issues of public policy.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By advancing, the students remain eligible to win a $10,000 grand prize and an all-expenses-paid trip to the IPPF Finals in New York City on May 6, 2017.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese students have excelled at the IPPF\u2019s unique test of research, analytical, writing and advocacy skills,\u201d said William A. Brewer III, chairman of the Brewer Foundation and a founder of the IPPF. \u201cThey now advance to the Round of 32 \u2013 the next written round of the competition and a step closer to the IPPF Finals.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This year, hundreds of teams<\/span> submitted qualifying round essays affirming or negating the 2016-17 IPPF topic, \u201cResolved: The obligation to provide safe haven for refugees should outweigh a government\u2019s right to control its borders.\u201d<\/i> Those essays were reviewed by a committee, which determined the \u201cRound of 64\u201d teams based on the overall quality of each 2,800-word essay.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In November, the\u00a0 \u201cRound of 64\u201d teams then began a single-elimination, written debate competition. Each team was assigned a position (affirmative or negative) and then volleyed papers back and forth with another team via email. A panel of judges reviewed the essays and selected the winning teams. In that round, Unionville High School advanced over Fraser Heights Secondary School from Surrey, BC, Canada<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cTop 32\u201d round begins immediately. Unionville High School will compete in a written debate against La Ca\u00f1ada High School from California. The top 32 teams include 26 U.S. teams from 17 U.S. states. There are six international teams from schools in China, Czech Republic, Kingdom of Bahrain, Nepal, Slovakia and Taiwan.<\/span><\/p>\n

The winning teams will be announced on February 13, and will proceed to the \u201cSweet 16\u201d round. On March 23, the \u201cElite 8\u201d teams will be announced. Those teams will travel to New York City on an all-expenses-paid trip to the IPPF Finals in New York City. The Finals will take place on May 6, 2017, at the Harold Pratt House.<\/span><\/p>\n

The IPPF Finals give students the opportunity to participate in oral debates in front of some of the world\u2019s\u00a0 foremost experts in debate, business, law and politics. The winning team will take home the \u201cBrewer Cup\u201d and a $10,000 grand prize.<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cTop 32\u201d teams:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Beijing ENREACH, Beijing, China<\/span><\/p>\n

Rato Bangala School, Lalitpur, Nepal<\/span><\/p>\n

Hathaway Brown School (1), Shaker Heights, Ohio<\/span><\/p>\n

Trinity Preparatory School, Winter Park, Florida<\/span><\/p>\n

The British School of Bahrain, Hamala, Kingdom of Bahrain<\/span><\/p>\n

Bridgewater-Raritan High School, Bridgewater, New Jersey<\/span><\/p>\n

The Davidson Academy of Nevada, Reno, Nevada<\/span><\/p>\n

Woodward Academy, College Park, Georgia<\/span><\/p>\n

Solon High School, Solon, Ohio<\/span><\/p>\n

Team Czech Republic, \u0158\u00ed\u010dany u Prahy, Czech Republic<\/span><\/p>\n

duPont Manual High School, Louisville, Kentucky<\/span><\/p>\n

Ladue Horton Watkins High School, St. Louis, Missouri<\/span><\/p>\n

Unionville High School, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania<\/span><\/p>\n

La Ca\u00f1ada High School, La Ca\u00f1ada, California<\/span><\/p>\n

Millburn High School, Millburn, New Jersey<\/span><\/p>\n

Jasper High School, Plano, Texas<\/span><\/p>\n

Greenwich High School, Greenwich, Connecticut<\/span><\/p>\n

Peak to Peak Charter School, Lafayette, Colorado<\/span><\/p>\n

Plano West Senior High School, Plano, Texas<\/span><\/p>\n

Annapolis High School, Annapolis, Maryland<\/span><\/p>\n

Hendrickson High School, Pflugerville, Texas<\/span><\/p>\n

North Allegheny Senior High School, Wexford, Pennsylvania<\/span><\/p>\n

Notre Dame High School, Sherman Oaks, California<\/span><\/p>\n

Stuyvesant High School, New York, New York<\/span><\/p>\n

Taipei American School, Taipei, Taiwan<\/span><\/p>\n

Bonita Vista High School, Chula Vista, California<\/span><\/p>\n

Bilingvalne gymnazium Milana Hodzu, Sucany, Slovakia<\/span><\/p>\n

Plano Senior High School, Plano, Texas<\/span><\/p>\n

East Mountain High School, Sandia Park, New Mexico<\/span><\/p>\n

Westfield Academy, West Hartford, Connecticut<\/span><\/p>\n

John Handley High School, Winchester, Virginia<\/span><\/p>\n

Carmel High School, Carmel, Indiana<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2013 Students from Unionville High School in have advanced to the \u201cTop 32\u201d round of the International Public Policy Forum (IPPF). Sponsored by the Brewer Foundation and New York University, the IPPF is the first and only debate competition that gives high school students around the world the opportunity to engage in written […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7426,9323,7427],"class_list":["post-33335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-international-public-policy-forum","tag-unionville-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33336,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33335\/revisions\/33336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}