The first practice of the year took place this Friday and the Greek tradition of " cutting the New Year's Pitta" was followed. We are all excited for a productive year ahead!!!
The 6th AUEB Panehellenic Debating Tournament, with an amazing CA team of our coach Themis Markidis, our DDC president Vassilis Goumas and the incredible Anastasia Karydi was successfully completed last night! We would like to thank the AUEB debating society for excellent and fun tournament and to congratulate the winners Harry Mystakeli and Angeliki Filippatou and Eleni Pouliou & Michalis Avgoulis for making it all the way to the finals!
DEREE Debating Club organised 3 very Interesting Public Lectures on current issues and context based debating. We want to thank the professors who devoted their time and agreed to assist us and give the wonderful lectures.
After an amazing workshop on how to generate arguments by Kallina Basli and two rounds of debate (motions : THW nationalize pharmaceuticals & THBT vigilantism is a legitimate way to achieve justice in areas of high crime) it was time to take the group photo and to surprise our coach (Themis Markidis) for his birthday!
The first Thessaloniki Open Debating tournament was successfully completed today! We want to thank Ρητορική Εταιρεία - Debating Society of Greece ,the Centre for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe and the Association for Democracy in the Balkans for an amazing tournament! Special thanks to the incredible convenor Angelos Emmanouilidis as well to all of those who contributed into making this weekend extra special and of course the CA team (Emilia Carlqvist, Harish Natarajan, Manos Moschopoulos, Stefan Siridzanski) for the very interesting motions. Congratulations to all of our teams for making us proud with their debating achievements! Also Congratulations go to Vassilis Goumas for making the top ten speaker's list, to the Semi-Finalists Maria Zoe Papaioannou & Thodoris Sotiriou and to Eleni Pouliou & Kallina Basli who made it to the finals!
This year we celerated Halloween with a spooky bakesale at the main corridor with creepy and yummy delicacies and our own special version of Friday Fright Night with a round of trick or treat followed by a scary movie night!
ATHENS OPEN 2014 came to an end and we enjoyed hosting it!
Congratulations to all the finalists and special thanks to all of our volunteers for their valuable help! Special thanks to our wonderful CA team of Michael Shapira & Christine Simpson and to all those amazing judges who woke up bright and early to adjudicate this tournament!
Lastly but not least we need to thank DEREE - The American College of Greece for supporting us in organising and hosting this tournament as well as
Congratulations to Maria Zoe Papaioannou & Thodori Sotiriou for proudly representing the club to the Finals and Congratulations to the winners Alex & Arietta! A big thank you to our wonderful CA Vassilis Papadopoulos, to all the judges and of course to our amazing volunteers!