The Global Debates

Schools Activities

New Hope Academy gets media coverage

May 24th, 2011 by Manos | Comments Off

The New Hope Academy, overall winners of this year’s Global Debates, received extensive media coverage of their activities related to the project. Here is one of the TV clips that showcased their work to the wider community – in Korean!


Grover Cleveland HS in voter registration drive

April 26th, 2011 by Manos | Comments Off

Students Yena Oh, Blessing Jee, Kathryn Hart and Julie Kim write about one of their service projects for this campaign: a voter registration drive!
Each individual, including the Model United Nations students, took several voter registration forms and went out to get people, anyone including high school students, to register. It was a very simple project; [...]


Brother Rice HS posts debate video

April 26th, 2011 by Manos | Comments Off

Brother Rice High School, from Michigan, U.S.A., has posted a video of their debate for this campaign. Here it is!


Villa Maria Academy submits PSAs

April 26th, 2011 by Manos | Comments Off

The students of this Chilean high school have uploaded their PSAs to Vimeo. See some of them here!


Bulgarian emigrants in Spain

April 26th, 2011 by Manos | Comments Off

Nancho Popovich High School sent us the following blog post:
We did a research about Bulgarian emigrants in Spain due to the emigration problem – respecting emigrants’ rights. We have two information sources: a meeting with Bulgarian emigrants, living in Spain – Mrs. Jivka Baltadjova (Madrid), and Mrs. Plamena Grudeva (Valencia) “New word” newspaper – a [...]


Ridgeland High School posts PSAs

April 6th, 2011 by Manos | Comments Off

“Help the RHS Global Debates team to raise money for beadsforlife in order to eradicate poverty in Uganda” says the PSA posted by the Ridgeland High School. Watch it below!


TGD motions debated in Belarus

April 6th, 2011 by Manos | Comments Off

Two Karl Popper format tournaments took place in Minsk, Belarus, between March 25 and 27 – one that featured 16 teams in the English language and another 18-team competition in Russian. The Spring Campaign’s motion, Nations of the world should immediately ratify the UN Convention on the Protection of Rights of Working Immigrants and their [...]


Cleveland High submits blog posts

March 14th, 2011 by Manos | Comments Off

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Students from the Grover Cleveland High School sent us their research blog posts that deal with the ratification process of the Convention


Tisovec school in the news

March 11th, 2011 by Manos | Comments Off

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The students from the Evanjelicke Gymnazium Tisovec received extensive media coverage of their Global Debates activities.


Bake sell to raise money for Christmas at a refugee camp

December 13th, 2010 by Veronika | Comments Off

The students from Tisovec, Slovakia bake Christmas cookies for their bake sale.