AWSDC 2014

The Team finished as Semi Finalists, and bowed out to a team from South Africa. In the initial rounds, they won 5 out of the 6 debates and broke 3rd among the 30 teams at the tournament. Tejaswini was placed in the top twenty speakers in the open category of the tournament. Dhruva Bhat was adjudged the second best adjudicator at the tournament.

• Raghav Anand: Raghav Anand has just completed his 12^th standard, scoring 481/500 in his final exams. He will be pursuing Engineering Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He represented India at AWSDC and WSDC 2014, Thailand. He finished as the 20^th best English as a Second Language(ESL) Speaker at WSDC 2014, Thailand.
• Eashwar Nagaraj: Eashwar is currently studying Quantitative Economics at the University of Miami in Oxford, Ohio. He won the Illinois State Moot court tournament in 2015, and was also runner up at the Ohio State University and Cornell University moot courts in 2015-16
• Surya Kumaravel: Surya is currently studying law at University College London. He finished as the 7^th best ESL Speaker at WSDC 2014, Thailand. He is an integral part of the debating society at UCL serving as its president in 2016-17.
• Sashank Kumar Chenga: Sashankh has completed his 12^th grade, scoring 482/500 in his final examinations. He was a part of the team representing India that made it to the semi-finals of the AWSDC 2014 and the Indian team at WSDC 2014, Thailand. He will be pursuing his undergraduate studies at the National University of Singapore.
• Keerthanya Rajesh: Keerthanya is currently studying in 12^th grade at PSBB KK Nagar, Chennai. Apart from the AWSDC and WSDC 2014, she has gone on to represent her school at the prestigious World Schools Forum in 2016.

Amrithavarshini Venkatesh

Amrithavarshni completed her Integrated Masters in Development at IIT, Madras and has gone to work at Dalberg Global Development Advisors, Mumbai. She was part of Team India in WSDC 2012 in Cape Town, where she finished as the 4th best English as a Second Language Speaker. She also debated as part of Team India in WSDC 2008 at Washington D.C.

Her debating career continued at university. Her record includes a victory at Stella Maris College Parliamentary Debate in 2014 and a finals appearance at the NALSAR Intervarsity Debating Championship, 2013. Moreoever, she served on the Chief Adjudication Panel of The IIT Bombay Debate in 2015, the NALSAR Intervarsity Debating Championship in 2015, the Scholastica International Parliamentary Debate in Bangladesh in 2016, and the Manipal Institute of Technology Debate Tournament in 2016.

Amrithavarshini coached the Indian WSDC team in 2014, 2015 and 2017. In 2015, the team broke 15^th and made the octofinal, while the 2017 team made it to the quarterfinals and became the best performing team in Team India’s history. Amrithavarshini also coached the team from India that won the 2016 Asia World Schools Debating Championship.

Padmapriya Govindarajan

Padmapriya is now pursuing her Integrated Masters in Development Studies at IIT Madras. She has been a part of Team India to WSDC 2009 and 2012, and was the 18^th best ESL Speaker at WSDC 2012 held in Cape Town. She has continued to pursue her love for debate, becoming a convenor of the Oratory Club at IIT Madras in 2013-14 and 2014-15. In addition, she has debated at several high profile tournaments, winning at SMCPD in 2013 and 2014, and appearing in the final at NALSAR IV 2013. She was a part of the first ever Indian led coaching team in 2014, taking the team to the Semi-final at AWSDC, and to a 22^nd place finish at WSDC. She is also currently working as an Indian correspondent for The Diplomat.

This Team was managed by Mrs. Syna Binoy.

Art Ward, Sayeqa Islam, Siddarth Shrikanth, Dhruva Bhat, Chandrasekhar Sriram and Satchit Sivakumar also helped in training the team.