REPORT BY SHEHAB ANOWAR
College Debate Competition 2023 was held in COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, BUSINESS & HUMANITIES, a renowned private college of Chattogram city. This debate started from 30/08/2023 &It came to an end on 31.08.2023. About 23 debaters participated in the Competition held at the college campus of CSBH.
All debaters were divided into 4 groups, which names were given to the names of Bangladeshi rivers like: Padma, Meghna, Jamuna & Karnapuli.On the first day of the debate competition, two teams were selected for the grand finale. The teams were Jamuna & Padma.
The first day’s motion for the debate was: “Artificial intelligence will eliminate the creative and imaginative endeavour of humanity.” On the first day, two teams were from the girls: Padma & Meghna, and they debated on the motion mentioned above.Two other teams were from the boys named Jamuna and Karnapuli accordingly. Both the teams presented their debating ideas in the same motion.It was Jamuna, which secured their position for the grand finale.Menelaus D Costa became the best speaker from the team of Jamuna.Anisa Maliat was the best speaker from the team of Padma.
The opening day of debate sessions was graced by Mr. Mehrab Mashuk, the honourable chairman of CSBH College, SSBH school & the founder of Executive’s Care Foundation; Sheikh Abdus Selim, the Headmaster of SSBH School; Professor Suhash Chandra Chy, the Acting Principal of CSBH College and they presented their speech respectively.
All the guests praised & appreciated the debating skills of the debaters in their respective speech and thanked the college authority to organise such an educative program for the young debaters who would become the leaders of the future generation.
On the grand finale of 31.08.2023, the motion of the debate session was: ” Should Technology be used to enhance human abilities?”
The team Jamuna was for the motion, whereas the girl’s team Padma was against the motion.After a jaw-dropping session of arguments, counterarguments, and close rebuttal rounds, finally, it was the team of Jamuna led by Sakif Anam became the champion along with his two other members named: Menelaus D Costa & Muntahasin Awal Mishal.The team Padma was led by Anisa Maliat (leader), and her other two members were Aysha Akter & Sitara Noor Niharika. So, the Padma became the runner-up team.
Sakif Anam was selected by the 3 moderators: Abdullah Al Mamun , Shormila Sharmin, and Shovho Deb, as the best speaker of the grand finale.
Md. Shehabul Anowar, the Senior Lecturer of the English Department, was the honourable Speaker of the first day and the grand finale of CSBH Debate Competition 2023.
At last, all the debaters were honoured with certificates, champion & runner-up crests, and the champion trophy, which were handed over to them by Mr. Mehrab Mashuk, the revered Chairman , the Acting Principal Prof. Suhash Chandra Chy. CSBH College.
Sakif Anam received the best speaker crest from the guest. The Speaker of the debating session and the 3 Moderators were also invited to the prize giving ceremony. The session came to an end with a photo session with the debaters from both the teams and the speaker and the moderators. Joseph Kumar was the time keeper.
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