Hello fellow debaters/adjudicators,

In pure style of celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Singapore Council of Women

The Raffles Debate Academy (RDA) would like to offer their assistance to help coach secondary school teams for the upcoming Singapore Secondary Schools Debating Competition (SSSDC) as part of the RDA's efforts to encourage debating in schools.

The Raffles Debate Academy has 4 groups of Year 6 debaters comprising 2-3 members with an experienced debater anchoring each group. They are looking to team up with 3 or 4 schools and the RI debaters can probably coach them for 3 or 4 sessions before the preliminary rounds. If there are interested schools, the RI students would be more than willing to contact the teachers in-charge directly and make the necessary arrangements.

If you would like to find out more about this programme, please contact Umarani at umarani@ri.edu.sg.

The Debate Association (Singapore), Singapore Red Cross (SRC) and University of Michigan Alumni (Singapore) will be organizing the International Humanitarian Law Debate Series 2011 on Saturday 29 Jan and Saturday 26 Feb for junior colleges, polytechnics and equivalent educational institutions. The tournament will be held at Anglo-Chinese Junior College. There are three debates on 29 Jan at 1045hrs, 1315hrs and 1615hrs and there are two debates on 26 Feb at 1030hrs and 1400hrs. If you are interested in judging at this tournament please send an email to samuel@debates.org.sg with your name, contact number and indicate which days and which rounds you will be free to judge.

Meridian JC Debates Society is organising a debating competition for secondary schools on 22 Jan 09, Sat 8.30am - 5.30pm. Entry fee is $50 per team. Adjudicators are needed too! If interested, please email
meridianinvitationals2011@gmail.com.

This workshop is organised by the Julia Gabriel Center for Learning in preparation for the upcoming Singapore Secondary Schools Debating Championship 2011. Debaters who are currently in their second year of junior college or above and are interested to adjudicate at this tournament should sign up for this workshop. This workshop is also open to debaters who have adjudicated in previous years of this tournament and would like to have a "refresher". The workshop will be held on 21 January (5pm to 8pm) and 28 January (6pm to 8pm) at Anglo Chinese Junior College. Interested applicants should send your personal particulars together with relevant debating experience to mdfgabriel@gmail.com.

The second preliminary round of the championships was held at St. Jospeh