Tournament scrapbook - World Schools Debating Championships

BERMUDA
12/3/08 9:57 AM
Encouraged by her school coaches and several lawyer acquaintances, she
began participating in the debates as well and has been engaged in many
debating and public speaking competitions since. In her spare time, Catherine
plays the piano and works as a sailing coach's assistant, a job that, among
other things, entails herding small children into sailboats, and does not come
with nearly enough danger pay. She enjoys reading other people's stories, and
writing and illustrating her own. Catherine hopes to one day become either a
lawyer for Greenpeace, or a journalist.
Michelle Kelly
Michelle Kelly was born on a beautiful, hot summer's day 17 years ago.
Although she has always been a talker and argued quite a bit, it wasn't until
six years ago that she found her calling as a debater and she hasn’t stopped
since! She has represented her school at the Bermuda National Competition
for six years and won best speaker twice. She has represented Bermuda
twice at the World Schools Debating Championship and hopes that third
times the charm.
Nikki-Lynn Marshall
Nikki Marshall has had an interest in debate since she was eight years old
and competed in her first competition. Ever since she has seen debating as
an opportunity to learn new things and challenge herself. Her other interests
include reading, playing the piano, and participating in public speaking
competitions. This year she also won the Youth Tourism Competition which
allowed her to improve on her public speaking and has definitely helped with
writing and structuring her debates! Debating is just something that she very
much enjoys and she doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon.
Nicholas Rinehimer
Nicholas became involved in debate 6 years ago, during his first year of senior
school. Since his first debate in the Bermuda Nationals he’s been a
consistent member of the debate club at Saltus Grammar School. He has
traveled to both Canada and England with his debate coach Miss Hiles to
take part in the IISPSC as well as competing nationally each November.
Nicholas is entering his senior year of high school and plans to attend college
in either Boston or New York to study chemical engineering and business. At
his school he chairs the Student Council and runs the student newspaper.
Outside of school he writes and directs movies and is constantly involved in
the film scene on the Island. Whether he’s throwing his own premiere or
working with the Bermuda International Film Festival, he’s always got
something to do!
Christianna Hiles - Team Coach
Christianna is thrilled to participate in the World Schools Debate
Championship in Washington D.C. as the coach for Team Bermuda.
Christianna has coached debate at a middle and high school level for the last
four years and is honoured to be able to extend this to a national and
international level. Christianna is a high school teacher who specializes in
English and Drama. When not coaching school and national debate, or
marking copious AP literature essays she can be found on, in or near the
water.
Calvin Thomas - Adjudicator
Calvin has been a member of the Bermuda Debate Society for a number of
years but this is his first experience as an accompanying adjudicator. Getting
involved in debate has helped Calvin fulfill a desire be give back to the
community by representing Bermuda in this capacity. Involvement in
Bermuda’s debate scene also serves as a great divergence from his computer
geek duties at a leading property-catastrophe reinsurer.
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