HKUST

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HKUST

• English Debating Team

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Why Join?

• Polish up your skills
• Public speaking skills
• Analytical skills
• Team-working skills
• Know more friends
• Within HKUST (of different nationalities)
• From other universities
• From other countries

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Competitions

• Joint-University Debating Competition (JUDC)
• In Oct Jun
• The Asian Parliamentary Debate
• This year in Malaysia

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• The Worlds Parliamentary Debate
• This year in Toronto
• Next year in South Africa

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• The Internet Debate (Dec 2001)
• Organized by the English-Speaking Union of HK
• Mrs Anson Chan as the patron
• Debate with students from prestigious
  universities in UK
• University of Oxford
• University of Cambridge
• University of Birmingham

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Activities

• Debate workshops in summer
• Mock debates
• Games
• Gathering
• The whole team go for dinner after every match
• BBQ (this coming summer, in our advisors house)
• Others to be suggested by YOU!!!

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Selection Criteria

• Basic criteria fluency in spoken English
• Reasoning and analytical skills
• Team-working skills
• Level of commitment
• Willingness to contribute, attend meetings,
  workshops and participate in the competitions