International Public Policy Forum Announces Top 64 Teams

NOVEMBER 5TH, 2013
2013-14 IPPF TOP 64
| BICKEL & BREWER FOUNDATION

The Bickel & Brewer Foundation and New York University are proud to announce the “Top 64” teams for the 13th annual International Public Policy Forum (IPPF) - the only contest that gives high school students across the globe the opportunity to engage in written and oral debates on issues of public policy.

The IPPF would like to thank all of its students competitors for taking part in this year’s competition. This year, the IPPF received 266 essays from 37 U.S. states and 28 countries – a record breaking number of entries!

Below, you will find a list of advancing teams in alphabetical order. If your school submitted more than one essay, the initials of the students on the advancing team will be included below.

You can also click here to see a PDF of the IPPF bracket, which includes the pairings for the competition. Advancing teams will also receive an e-mail with additional information.

Top 64

A.W. Dreyfoos High School of the Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida

Anglo-Chinese Junior College, Singapore

Atlantic Community High School, Delray Beach, Florida (C.G., M.R., S.B.)

BASIS Scottsdale High School, Scottsdale, Arizona (S.G., A.H., R.R., G.I., A.N., S.L., H.L., P.L, K.S.)

BC Academy A, Langley, British Columbia, Canada (H.Y.K., E.N.I., H.Y.L)

BC Academy B, Langley, British Columbia, Canada (A.I.H., E.S.H., E.W.L.)

Bellarmine College Preparatory, San Jose, California (V.T., C.R., I.B.)

Bilingvalne gymnazium Milana Hodzu, Sucany, Slovokia

Brookfield East High School, Brookfield, Wisconsin

Brother Rice High School, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Byram Hills High School, Armonk, New York (A.C., S.C., C.G., C.S.)

Cebu Inernational School, Cebu City, Philippines

Chandler High School, Chandler, Arizona

Colegio Campestre Americano, Popayán, Cauca, Colombia

Collège Sturgeon Heights Collegiate, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Debate Development Initiative, Singapore (V.C., Y.H.C., B.G., H.L., V.S., M.K.T., S.Y.)

Debate Institute South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa (L.B., J.C., F.D., J.S.)

Delbarton School, Morristown, New Jersey (A.A., B.R., H.T.)

Didždvaris Gymnasium, Šiauliai, Lithuania

Dougherty Valley High School, San Ramon, California

East Mountain High School, Sandia Park, New Mexico (H.B., J.G., Q.N.)

Ecole Internationale de Genève, Genève, Switzerland (AMMOS)

El Dorado High School, El Dorado, Kansas

Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Greenbelt, Maryland

Greenhill School, Addison, Texas

Greenwich High School, Greenwich, Connecticut (M.S., M.M., D.Z.)

Hamilton High School, Chandler, Arizona (D.G., J.L., G.R., Z.S., A.Y.)

Hathaway Brown High School, Shaker Heights, Ohio (A.S., N.T.)

Hunter College High School, New York, New York

Istanbul High Schools Debate Association, Istanbul, Turkey

John Hampden Grammar School, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

Karl G. Maeser Preparatory Academy, Lindon, Utah (S.R., M.P., S.L, C.R.C., J.G.)

Kerr High School, Houston, Texas (P.A., N.A., I.C., J.T., K.U.)

Korean Minjok Leadership Academy A, Gangwon, Republic of Korea (S.P., C.L., J.W.K., J.P.)

Korean Minjok Leadership Academy B, Gangwon, Republic of Korea (J. Y., J.Y., J.R., H.R.)

Kugnus ACTS, Closter, New Jersey

Lakewood High School, Lakewood, Colorado (B.N.K, M.N.K., S.S.)

Lamar High School, Houston, Texas

Lambert High School, Suwanee, Georgia

Langley High School, McLean, Virginia

Leland High School, San Jose, California (V.K, K.K., S.N.)

Mansfield Timberview High School, Arlington, Texas

Montgomery Blair High School A, Silver Spring, Maryland (C.D., A.D., A.J.)

Montgomery Blair High School B, Silver Spring, Maryland (R.M., A.M., K.Z.)

Newton High School, Newton, Kansas

Niles North High School, Skokie, Illinois (B.B., I.D., D.O.B.P., L.W., A.Y.)

Nixa High School, Nixa, Missouri

North Allegheny Senior High School, Wexford, Pennsylvania (M.L., J.H., M.T., M.L.)

NYC iSchool, New York, New York (T.G., S.M., A.P., J.R., D.Z.)

Pine View School, Osprey, Florida

Plano West Senior High School , Plano, Texas

Powell High School, Powell, Wyoming

Richard King High School, Corpus Christi, Texas

Seminole Ridge Community High School, Loxahatchee, Florida

Shanghai KongJiang High School, Shanghai, China

Shanley High School, Fargo, North Dakota

Southside High School, Greenville, South Carolina

St. Paul Academy and Summit School, St. Paul, Minnesota

Taipei American School A, Taipei, Taiwan (J.C., J.C., A.C., B.C., E.H., A.S.)

Taipei American School B, Taipei, Taiwan (A.H., J.H., P.I., E.L., H.R., C.S., A.T., A.T.)

The Colony High School, The Colony, Texas

The Davidson Academy of Nevada, Reno, Nevada

The Woodlands Secondary School, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada (D.Y., A.C. K.W.)

Vestavia Hills High School, Vestavia Hills, Alabama




The “Top 64” teams will now compete in a single-elimination, written debate tournament. Teams will continue to debate the topic, “Resolved: As a last resort, unilateral military force is justified to minimize nuclear weapons proliferation.” The teams will volley essays back and forth via e-mail and judges will select the advancing teams. This format continues until the final eight teams emerge. Those teams earn an all-expenses-paid trip to New York City to compete in the IPPF Finals, where the IPPF Champion takes home a $10,000 grand prize!

For those teams that did not advance, your evaluation forms and certificates of participation will be mailed to you in the coming weeks.

Thank you to every team and student that submitted an essay!