COLLEGE STATION, Texas — For the second year in a row, the A&M Consolidated High School debate team has dominated the UIL Region 6 Congress Contest and advanced to the state competition.
In the competition, which was held on Nov. 14 and is meant to mimic what happens in the U.S. Congress, Rowan Seipp took first place, David Zhang claimed second place, and Jenny Jeong earned third.
The competition is an individual event, where the participants draft legislation that is later submitted to the tournament in the form of proposed laws and position statements and research a number of bills and resolutions that are directly tied to real-world social and political policies in order to prepare speeches and vote on whether or not to approve the legislation, similarly to what representatives in congress would do.
“Congress is one of the most real-world applicable events that students can do,” said Brian Alford, speech and debate coach at A&M Consolidated in a press release from College Station ISD. "Students are able to learn about current events and debate the issues with their peers, giving them a much broader world view. In the 10 years that UIL has had Congress as an event, A&M Consolidated has had consistent success in this event.”
The state competition will be held in January.
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