Several college from Chennai participated at the debate contest orgainised by U.S.Consulate and Loyola College.The chief guest on the occasion was Mr.Andrew Simkin , the Consul General.
The event commenced with the screening of the videoclipping of the first and second presidential debates between Barrack Obama and John McCain at Mississippi University and Belmont University respectively. The participants, as per the norms of the contest, reproduced them by providing both Democratic and Republican perspectives on critical issue such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Energy, Immigration, Healthcare, etc.
The judges, Mr.Karthik Chidmabaram and Ms.Jodie Enda , A journalist declared the team from Stella Maris College as the winners, closely followed by Loyola College and Ethiraj College. The debate moderators, Ms. Ragini Gupta, admitted,
“The colleges did much better than some colleges in the US.” She handed out the mustpread “post-AmericanWorld” by Fareed Zakaria to all participants.
Concerned at the increase in global warning and the consequent natural disasters the students, of PSBB Senior Secondary School , Formed a team called the ‘Rainbow Warriors’ and formulated several approaches to create awareness on global warming. They made attractive charts with powerful messages on global warming and put them up in more than 30 outlets in their neighbourhood .These charts are replaced every fortnight with other charts with more messages.
The Rainbow Warriors Present a sapling toevery child from 4th to 8th standard in their school on his /her birthday along with instruction o nurturing it.Children take this sapling in a paper bag (recycled paper) which strongly requests students to lessen the use of plastic.They have also gifted tree saplings to the panchayat Union Middle School at sundara Cholavaram.They made a power point presentation on global warming in Tamil to the students of the schoolk and also gave them charts with miessages on reducing global warming, in Tamil.
The event commenced with the screening of the videoclipping of the first and second presidential debates between Barrack Obama and John McCain at Mississippi University and Belmont University respectively. The participants, as per the norms of the contest, reproduced them by providing both Democratic and Republican perspectives on critical issue such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Energy, Immigration, Healthcare, etc.
The judges, Mr.Karthik Chidmabaram and Ms.Jodie Enda , A journalist declared the team from Stella Maris College as the winners, closely followed by Loyola College and Ethiraj College. The debate moderators, Ms. Ragini Gupta, admitted,
“The colleges did much better than some colleges in the US.” She handed out the mustpread “post-AmericanWorld” by Fareed Zakaria to all participants.
Concerned at the increase in global warning and the consequent natural disasters the students, of PSBB Senior Secondary School , Formed a team called the ‘Rainbow Warriors’ and formulated several approaches to create awareness on global warming. They made attractive charts with powerful messages on global warming and put them up in more than 30 outlets in their neighbourhood .These charts are replaced every fortnight with other charts with more messages.
The Rainbow Warriors Present a sapling toevery child from 4th to 8th standard in their school on his /her birthday along with instruction o nurturing it.Children take this sapling in a paper bag (recycled paper) which strongly requests students to lessen the use of plastic.They have also gifted tree saplings to the panchayat Union Middle School at sundara Cholavaram.They made a power point presentation on global warming in Tamil to the students of the schoolk and also gave them charts with miessages on reducing global warming, in Tamil.
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