Twenty-four teams participate in National Ethics Bowl April 15-16

ethics_bowlcompetition20122The fourth annual National High School Ethics Bowl will bring 24 teams from across North America to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill April 15-16.

Hosted by The Parr Center for Ethics in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, students will exercise their philosophical, analytical thinking and ethical muscles as they analyze topical issues. This is the largest National High School Ethics Bowl to date: 2,680 students from 335 teams representing 218 schools competed in 29 regionals from September to March for their chance to compete for the national championship.

During the two-day event, all teams will compete in four rounds of competition. Cases and questions are developed under the guidance of the Parr Center and cover a broad range of topics including “Prison Work,” “Trigger Warnings,” “Acting Unnaturally,” “Climate Debt” and “Cultural Artifacts.”

The performance of each team is judged on the basis of how clearly, articulately and perceptively the students develop the positions they decide to take.

The National High School Ethics Bowl is supported by the Parr Center for Ethics, Squire Family Foundation, Marc Sanders Foundation, Fenwick Foundation, UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, UNC’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions, and the department of philosophy.

The teams participating in the 2016 bowl include:

Springfield Collegiate Institute, Manitoba, Canada

Little Rock Central High School, Little Rock, Ark.

Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School, Santa Cruz, Calif.

Harvard-Westlake High School, Studio City, Calif.

Edmund Burke School, Washington D.C.

Oxbridge Academy, West Palm Beach, Fla.

St. Petersburg High School, St. Petersburg, Fla.

CSRA Homeschoolers, Augusta, GA.

University of Chicago Laboratory School, Chicago, IL.

Triad High School, Troy, IL.

Herron High School, Indianapolis, Ind.

Sparrows Point High School, Edgemere, Md.

Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.

Greenhills High School, Ann Arbor, Mich.

David H. Hickman High School, Columbia, Mo.

New Milford High School New Milford, N.J.

Bethpage High School, Bethpage, N.Y.

John S. Burke Catholic High School, Goshen, N.Y.

East Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill, N.C.

Lincoln High School, Portland, Ore.

Conestoga High School, Berwyn, PA.

L&N STEM Academy, Knoxville, Tenn.

The John Cooper School, The Woodlands, Texas

Park City High School, Park City, Utah

For more information, visit nhseb.unc.edu or email ethicsbowl@unc.edu.