Monsoon-Summer Debating in Bangladesh

Dear all,

Each year during the summer in Bangladesh different debating activities picks-up with the new arrival of Monsoon and different seasonal fruities. Summer songs click the debaters to start the slice of debating activities in different educational debating organizations. This institution each year arranges summer debating for their students extracurricular and celebrates the Monsoon and its flavor. This activity includes different food festivals, cultural carnivals and in schools debating. This article will contain some of these summer schools debating activities in Bangladesh.

AUB Summer Debate Competition 2007

AUB Debate competition 2007 was organized successfully by Asian University Debating club to celebrate the Monsoon Day. The final round was on 26th June 07. The program consisted of prize giving ceremony, declaration of new commitee and reunion.A public speaking program was held. The champion crest won by Rawshan Ara Lubna from English department -10th batch.In debating, the champion team were Daisy, Ferdous, and Taposh from BBA dept.

Festive Fresher's Summer Debate in BUET

BUET Debating Club recently organized the Fresher's Debate Championship in this summer. It commenced from the 21st of June and ended with its three day program on the 23rd of June. Debaters from both the batch-05 and batch-06 participated in the program. Public Speaking was also a part of the program. On the first day of the program, preliminary round debates were organized in the traditional format. The topics of the first round focused on the current national issues. Five winning teams along with three best losers advanced to the second round. Debates were simultaneously conducted at the seminar room and the auditorium of BUET. The best speakers from this round were selected for the public speaking.

Debate Competition 2007 held at Chitagong University

University of Chitagong (CU) the best summer school campus in the city organised Inter-Year Bangla and English Debate Competition 2007 from 2-7 June. One Bangla team and one English team from each of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year from this department took part in the competition. The main event started on 2nd June at around 10.30 a.m. All the debates of the preliminary round were held on 2nd and 4th June where the competitions were really tight and the results were very close. After the very interesting battle of words, 1st year and 3rd year moved into the final of Bangla Debate competition by beating 4th year and 2nd year respectively.

SDF Summer Debate Championships 2007

With the association of Stamford University, Bangladesh the 3rd Inter Department Debate Competition of Stamford Debate Forum has begun on 23 June,2007. The teams were selected at Stamford's Siddeshwari Campus through a lottery. In a show debate Aninda Rahman, Nazmul Islam Shovon of Dhaka University, Shaifuddin Rana of United International University and Abdullah Mohammad Sukrana, Md.Monir Hossain and Abdullah Al Rezwan of Stamford University, Bangladesh took part. In this 8 day long debate program, 28 teams of the Bengali section and 10 teams of the English section are participating. The final debate of the Inter Department Debate competition was held on 30 June, 2007.

Regards,
Rashedul Hasan Stalin
Chair, Bangladesh Debating Council