UTP English Language debate team had emerged as the Champion in the National Novice Debating Championship 2010. The competition was organized by Universiti Teknologi MARA on 19th to 21st February 2010 in Shah Alam, Selangor. Ninety-six teams from various institutions had participated in the competition, making it the largest English Language debating championship in Malaysia to date. UTP had sent three English Language Debating teams to participate in this championship.
In this competition, it was compulsory for the debaters to go through 6 preliminary rounds before the top 16 teams were ranked and moved into the octo-finals. UTP-Team-1 and UTP-Team-2 managed to break to the octo-finals and UTP-Team-1 won against Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia hence qualified themselves to the quarter-finals. UTP-Team-1 won over University College of Technology and Innovation (UCTI) and advanced themselves to the semi-finals.
In the semi-finals, UTP-Team-1 won against International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM-team-3), with the motion ‘This House would use genetically modified food to feed impoverished countries’. UTP had emerged as the Champion and won against IIUM-Team-1 in the final round. The motion for the final was ‘This House wants to support Iran's rights to develop nuclear weapons’. Kong Fook Ann, 1st Year 2nd Semester, was the Best Speaker in the final round. We are also proud to share that two UTP student adjudicators: Ismal Ishak and Vignesh Kumar had qualified themselves as adjudicators from the beginning of the competition right to the semi-final round. The list of UTP debaters are as follows:
UTP 1 (Champions)
Mukhariz Muhamad
Business Information System 2nd Year 1st Semester
Kong Fook Ann
Petroleum Engineering 1st Year 2nd Semester
Mohd Ashraf Bin Nor Azrol
Petroleum Engineering 2nd Year 1st Semester
UTP 2
Mohd Shafiq Bin Shaffa'ee
Chemical Engineering Foundation 1st Semester
Sean Suraj Jeremiah
Chemical Engineering Foundation 1st Semester
Ahmed Ali El-Fadil Hassan
Petroleum Engineering Foundation 1st Semester
UTP 3
Lee Yin Yin
Petroleum Geoscience Foundation 1st Semester
Chin Yong Bao
Chemical Engineering 1st Year 2nd Semester
Alex Liew Vun Ping
Electrical Engineering 1st Year 2nd Semester
We would like thank En A Mutalib b Embong (M&H) for his support and assistance as the Accompanying Officer throughout the competition.
The UTP Debate Club would like to express our heartiest gratitude to YBhg. Datuk Dr Zainal Abidin Hj. Kasim and the Management of the University for being very supportive. We also would like to thank Tn Hj M Noor Rosli, the Director of Student Services, for his continuous encouragement. With the support from YBhg. Datuk Rector, the Management and the Student Support Services, we hope to develop more students to excel in the debating arena
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