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Two members of Hathaway Brown's debate team — Aarathi Sahadevan '16 and Nitya Thakore '16 — received a very prestigious honor when their International Public Policy Forum (IPPF) essay qualified as one of the “Top 32” teams internationally. The IPPF is an international competition of “written debate” sponsored by the Bickel and Brewer law firm and New York University. Teams from 34 states and 29 countries wrote preliminary round essays on the resolution “Resolved: As a last resort, unilateral military force is justified to minimize nuclear weapons proliferation.”
The team now moves into the elimination round bracket competing for an all-expenses paid trip to NYC to compete live at the IPPF Finals this coming Srping. They will compete against Debate Institute South Africa D from Cape Town, South Africa, exchanging written arguments weekly over the next month that will be reviewed by a panel of judges. If they advance to the next round, they will compete against the winner of the Lamar High School (TX)/Newton High School (KS)
HB was the only school from Ohio to qualify.
To learn more about the competition, click here. To see the full bracket of the top 32 teams, click here for a pdf file.
Congratulations to these girls on this very impressive accomplishment! We wish them luck in their upcoming round of competition.
