Debate: 24th of Feb. '14

Today is the last day of this year's debate club meeting. It is pretty sad that debate club has to end this early because less and less people are coming. Basically what we did today in debate club is evaluating the debate club meetings and the debate competitions we attended from the beginning until today. My friends and I thought that we did okay although we can now look back and point out some mistakes that could have been done better. My supervisors, Ms. Debbie and Ibu Stephanie, also asked for some feedbacks for debate club this year. My friends and I suggested that debate club should be more interactive. Maybe we can do different things in each meeting because this year's debate club seems to go in a cycle: talk about the technical aspects of a debate, research, practice debating and talk about potential debate competitions. Maybe instead of only focusing on debate, we can practice other skills that are crucial for school, like writing, being involved in a socratic seminar and delivering a presentation. That way people will not get bored so easily. Because in the first few meetings of debate club this year, there were actually a lot of people who were interested in joining. A lot of people came to the debate club but afterwards less and less people came. Despite all that, my friends and I believe that we have come a long way. We learned a lot of things about debate: how it works, what to talk about, how to deliver a speech during the debate, and about the technical aspects of debate. We experienced several debate competitions and we understand how challenging they are. We made new friends during the competition and everything that we have gone through is just something that cannot be exchanged. I am glad to have taken debate as my CAS activity.