CONGRATULATION! To the Swinburne Debate Team
Senior Group
Best English Speaker, Best Overall Debater : Katerine Gumal (5B)
4th Best Speaker: Jerry Tan (4D)
Junior Group
Best Debater: Torrance Chen (3B)
2nd Best Speaker: Janice Wang (3C)
4th Best Speaker: Chloe Chew (3C)
5th Best Speaker: Malcolm Yap (2A)
Junior Champion: Torrance Chen (3B)
Janice Wang (3C)
Chloe Chew (3C)
Most Promising Team: Malcolm Yap (2A)
Lim Shen Khai (2A)
Gary Chong (2A)
GREEN ROAD INTERSCHOOL (NOVEMBER 2012)
9TH Place: Angelyn Tan
4th Place: Wong Yu Wen
3rd Place: Emily Gumal
Runner’s Up of Championship: Javier Siew
Chloe Chew
Torrance Chen
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------From the 18th of February to the 21st February, Lodge sent six teams to the 8th annual Swinburne Sarawak Interschool Debating Championship. In the senior category, Lodge B consisting of Sharon Chai, Joanna Ting and Jane Teo broke to the Octofinals. Lodge F comprising of Ryan Poh, Chai Chung Sien and Chris Chua broke to the Octofinals as well. Lodge A with Katherine Gumal, Shannon Lim and Celine Goh, broke to the quarterfinals. And Lodge E consisting of Jerry Tan, Brian Chua and Ng Tze Yuan, broke to the semifinals. Katherine Gumal was awarded Best English Speaker during the preliminary rounds. 4th best speaker was won by Jerry Tan and the best speaker in the senior category and overall best speaker or debater was Katherine Gumal. Jerry Tan and Katherine Gumal have been selected to represent Sarawak to go for selections to represent Malaysia in the upcoming World Schools Debating Championship.
In the junior category, 5th best speaker was Malcolm Yap. Chloe Chew was 4th best speaker. 2nd best speaker was Janice Wang and best speaker for the juniorka category was Torrance Chen. Most promising team was awarded to Lodge D consisting of Malcolm Yap, Lim Shen Khai and Gary Chong. And our junior team of Lodge reached the finals for the fifth time in a row and for the third time, Lodge was crowned junior champions. The team that won the junior category was Lodge team C comprising of Torrance Chen, Chloe Chew and Janice Wang.During the school holidays, Lodge sent three junior teams to compete in the first Greenroad Interschool Debating tournament. 3 of the Lodgians got into top 10 for their speaker scores. 9th place was awarded to Angelyn Tan, 4th place was awarded to Wong Yu Wen and 3rd place was awarded to Emily Gumal. A team comprising of Javier Siew, Chloe Chew and Torrance Chen emerged 1st runner up in the tournament.
During the school holidays, Katherine Gumal and Jerry Tan also participated in an international open university tournament Borneo British Parlimentary Championship.