Sentences with phrase «debate team in competition»

The BPI program, founded by Max Kenner while an undergraduate at Bard, spawned a debate team comprised of prison inmates from Eastern New York Correctional Facility who made global headlines in 2015 when they beat the Harvard debate team in competition.

Kenner, who hatched the BPI program while an undergraduate at Bard, put together a debate team comprised of prison inmate from Eastern New York Correctional Facility and made global headlines in 2015 when they beat the Harvard debate team in competition.

Not exact matches

Ann is known for her debate skills (she placed first in the National Tournament of Champions and second in the State of California in high school) and was part of a five - person team at Yale that competed in the Robocup Competition in Paris, France.

Interview with Kam Williams Headline: Denzel on Directing, Acting, Fathering and Mentoring Denzel Washington stepped behind the camera for the second time to make The Great Debaters, an inspirational bio-pic about Professor Melvin Tolson, the debate coach at a small black college in the South, whose inexperienced team, in 1935, shocked the world by taking on some seasoned nationally - ranked competition.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Documentary Relates True Story of the Great Debaters A year ago, Denzel Washington directed and co-starred in The Great Debaters, a compelling, if fanciful docudrama which recounted how a debate team from an unheralded, Southern black college had traveled in 1935 from Texas to Cambridge, Massachusetts to defeat Harvard and win the national championship in a competition aired live, coast to coast, on national radio.

The debate and math teams regularly finish first in national and regional competitions.

Clubs like robotics, chess, Mock Trial and debate compete regularly in local and state competitions; the robotics club finished second in a national prosthetic arm competition and the chess team finished fifth in the state competition last year.

And yet, too often, the principles that guided us in primary and secondary school — principles like «there is no I in team,» and «it is attitude, not aptitude» — can become lost in philosophical debates or buried in a competition for resources.

Mr. Singh explained that his interest in law started when he was on his high school debate team, noting he enjoyed the strategy and competition of debate.

Her creative writings often gained recognition and accolades in various competitions while her leadership and knack for public speaking as a member of her high school debate team resulted in her placing at national tournaments.

However, you could respond that you were on the debate team in college, excelled at presentations as part of group projects in school, gave a talk at a volunteer dinner, or won a marketing competition as an undergraduate.