Doha: DPS-MIS excelled with flying colours at the much awaited Qatar Preparatory Junior Schools Debate League-II which took place on March 24 at Al Ahnaf Bin Qais Preparatory School for Boys. There were almost 30 teams comprising 90 debaters from 17 different schools of Qatar.
They debated on various interesting and challenging topics on how politicians should be using public services instead of private ones, how monitoring apps can help children and parents, about how and why state should fund only medical research to combat deadly or debilitating diseases, how and why fast food companies need to display health warning labels.
The impromptu rounds helped the debaters work as a team and develop their critical thinking skills. The prepared rounds helped the debaters learn how to research and form arguments.
Team Paul, Sparsh and Jaefer topped the tournament by winning all four rounds whereas team Akshal, Atharva and Rudra came second losing against the top team, their school mates only. Team Vidit, Harsh and Tamim won three rounds and came fourth in a row.
In the individual category, Akshal topped, followed by Rudra and Atharva, Sparsh, Jaefer and Paul in sixth position, Tamim in eighth position, Harsh in ninth position and Vidit in 14th position. The DPS-MIS delegation was led by Jaya Majumder along with Somasundaram, Nadia Khan and Malathi Mahalingam who took part in the tournament as adjudicators, mostly as chairs.
