Monday, August 13, 2007

Indian Verbattle Debate Junior-2007 Updates










Dear all,

Five teams from St. Theresa High School, Mangalore, have qualified for the state preliminary round of "Verbattle Junior-2007", a state-level inter-school debate competition here on Sunday.

Two teams from Amber Valley High School, Chikmagalur, and one from St. Aloysius High School also made it to the State-preliminary to be held in Bangalore on August 23 and August 24.

As many as 22 teams from Mangalore zone participated in this event organised by "TV House", a media company. The next zonal selection round will be held in Mysore on August 14 followed by one at Hubli on August 16 and finally, three rounds in Bangalore on August 20, 21 and 22, respectively. The State-preliminaries, quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals will be held in Bangalore on August 23 and August 27.

The students who qualified from Mangalore zonal round are: Jake Texeira and K.M. Rajath; Roshni Maria and Niveah Tettilah; Sathya Krishna and Karthik Ramakrisha; B. Pallavi and Joey Monteiro; and Oralia Rego and Delroy Joshua, from St. Theresa; A.B. Aditya and B.A. Anshrutha; and Yasahaswini Rao and Rushir Sisodia from Amber Valley; and A. Aditya and Mohanjeeth Marla from St. Aloysius High School.

Rachel Ravi, general manager, TV House, said "When students from centres such as Hubli could excel, I see no reason why students from Mangalore could not," she said.

Regards,
Radhedul Hasan Stalin

Source: http://mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=local&newsid=50228

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