The Brewer Foundation and New York University are proud to announce the “Top 64” teams for the 22nd annual International Public Policy Forum (IPPF) – the first and only contest that gives high school students around the world the opportunity to engage in written and oral debates on issues of public policy.
This year’s qualifying round involved submissions from more than 220 teams, representing schools in 22 countries and 31 U.S. states. In fact, the IPPF received more entries this year than it has since 2014!
The IPPF would like to thank all of its student competitors for taking part in the contest and writing on the 2022-23 resolution, “ Resolved: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an effective model for international cooperation. ” The essays were exceptionally well-written and well-researched.
Below, you will find a list of advancing teams in alphabetical order. Given that some schools entered more than one essay, the names of the students on the advancing teams are included below.
Aberdeen Central High School, Aberdeen, South Dakota
Students: Abiah George, Samantha Hegge, Reagan Blackburn
Amity Regional High School (Team 1), Woodbridge, Connecticut
Students: Anousha Shahid, Avani Kulkarni, Janet Fan, Tony Zhang, Mihir Nandy, Manaal Akbar, Mila Mejartowicz, Aditi Bhattamishra
Amity Regional High School (Team 2), Woodbridge, Connecticut
Students: Jennifer Li, June Lin, Daniel Liu, Sophia Liu, Yuqi Liu, Melinda Lu, Mingyue Zha
Arcadia High School, Arcadia, California
Students: Dania Azher, Evelyn Tsoi, Chloe Wong
Artemis Debate BD, Cape Town, South Africa
Students: Arthur Zhao, Bowen Duan, Minjun Kim, Ryan Zhou, Zonglin Cai
Artemis Debate MS, Cape Town, South Africa
Students: Dylan Lee, Justin Li, Kevin Xing, Rich Zhou
BASIS Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Arizona
Students: Daryl Day, Ashton Dolce, Rachana Gurudu, Catherine Jiang, Sruti Peddi
Bergen County Academies, Hackensack, New Jersey
Students: Christine Seo, Cailyn Min, Madhav Dua, Jason Chae
Bergen County Debate Club, Fort Lee, New Jersey
Students: Sahaj Bhandari, Hemang Mittal, Brannon Zee
Blue Valley High School, Stilwell, Kansas
Students: Nancy Pei, Jake Russell, Aarush Tallapragada, Nicholas Murphy
Brentwood College School, Mill Bay, BC, Canada
Students: Denzy James, Lucy McAllister, Maxine Pollock, Sophie Horn
Cornerstone Collegiate Academy of Seoul (Team 1), Seoul, Republic of Korea
Students: Seojin Choi, Chaeyoung Kim, Haul Shin
Cornerstone Collegiate Academy of Seoul (Team 2), Seoul, Republic of Korea
Students: Choeun Lim, Eunjin Hong, Hoonsung Lee, Joohong Kang
Cranbrook School, Bellevue Hill, NSW, Australia
Students: James Rivlin, Harry Skurnik, Anthony Liao, Lachlan Reynolds
Crescenta Valley High School, La Crescenta-Montrose, California
Students: Allison Lee, Mingyeom Kim, Eric Oh
Davidson Academy, Reno, Nevada
Students: Julia Burnham, Garam O'Brien, Madeline Krieger, Winston Yan
DebateGo Classical Academy, Toronto, ON, Canada
Students: Helen Lei, Lillian Li, Anne Liu, Emily Zhang, Oriana Zhou
Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram (Team 1), New Delhi, Delhi, India
Students: Aaishi Gupta, Isha Garg, Muskan, Rohan Gupta
Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram (Team 2), New Delhi, Delhi, India
Students: Annhad Ahluwalia, Sefat Ahluwalia, Shauryaa Goyal, Suti Kathuria, Suhanee Chugh, Tejas Baid
DSST Byers, Denver, Colorado
Students: Valentina Rutledge, Tally Shannon, Joshua Whitmire
Dulles High School, Sugar Land, Texas
Students: Akhila Chikkula, Laurice Duan, Nathaniel John, Boping Li, Vishnu Nataraja
East Ridge High School, Woodbury, Minnesota
Students: Satyam Bhushan, Mathan Liu, Alan Wei
EEC Debate, Toronto, ON, Canada
Students: Andrew Liu, Caylee Pan, Sarah Li, Tanush Agarwal
Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts
Students: Arjun Ray, Husayn Ladha, Alisa Gulyansky
Hamilton High School (Team 1), Chandler, Arizona
Students: Gowrishankar Biju, Kiyan Naraghi, Arnav Nigam, Abhijay Tambe, Emma Xi, Raymond Zou
Hamilton High School (Team 2), Chandler, Arizona
Students: Kevin Chen, Marie Chen, Jenny Dong, Mariha Islam
Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
Students: Youngmin Park, Taeeun Kim, Junseo Moon, Woohyun Tak
Hathaway Brown Upper School, Shaker Heights, Ohio
Students: Mahee Shah, Leyah Jackson, Clare Hess, Emily Stringer, Shrividya Regadamilli
H.Edu Institute, San Mateo, California
Students: Jacqueline Chang, Chaewon Lee, Roy Shin
The Hockaday School, Dallas, Texas
Students: Ariana Wang, Diya Hegde, Evita NinoSanika Agarwalla, Sidney Murray
Interlake High School, Bellevue, Washington
Students: Aileen Liang, Jerry Li, Clarence Guo, Daniel Jung, Sarah Guo, Troy Zhang
Ivy Bridge Academy, Johns Creek, Georgia
Students: Sapna Annambhotla, Lynden Baek, Lohisha Chinthalapudi, Prakhar Gupta, Eshawnvie Kallu, Samhitha Kovi, Ethan Nam, Claire Park, Rikhil Ranjit, Irene Tang, Gene Yoon
John Handley High School, Winchester, Virginia
Students: Maria Brink, Page Brubaker, Nikil Shyamsunder, Reeva Subedi
Kealakehe High School, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Students: Sherry Jiang, Mei Kanada, Andries Ferreira, Jahnea Ordona
Lalaji Memorial Omega International School, Chennai, India
Students: Harini Ramanan, Vaibhav Madhavan, Mahathi Sathish, Shivani Srinivasan, Ritesh, Sivaraman, Tharun Senthilkumar
Milestone Institute, Budapest, Hungary
Students: Péter Kliment, Tamara Lehoczky, Hédi Nguyen
Miramonte High School, Orinda, California
Students: Casey Scheiner, Cameron Berg, Park Briones, Ardal Inesi
Mountain View-Los Altos Speech and Debate, Mountain View, California
Students: Flora Wang, Aimee Ge, Kanishk Kondaka, Jack Pereira, Calista Woo, Sophia Zhang
Mountain Vista High School, Highlands Ranch, Colorado
Students: Vinisha Tripathi, Liliana Smith, Sahithi Mathukumilli
New Horizons Bilingüal School, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Students: María Féliz, Sofía Rojas, Daniela Morales
North Allegheny Senior High School (Team 1), Wexford, Pennsylvania
Students: Vishaal Komaragiri, Himanshu Setya, Rajat Reddy, Shuban Tiwari, Vikram Nagarajan, Adi Shankara Mallik
North Allegheny Senior High School (Team 2), Wexford, Pennsylvania
Students: Helen Chen, Stephanie Chen, Summer Ji, Samantha Schroeppel, Ashley Shim, Samuel Xiao
Notre Dame High School (Team C), Sherman Oaks, California
Students: Devin Vizzie, Noah Barry, Gio Haroun
Notre Dame High School (Team D), Sherman Oaks, California
Students: Sophia De Mayo, Tedric Saguros, Jay Vizzie
Notre Dame High School (Team F), Sherman Oaks, California
Students: Jacob Bernal, Isabella Deantoni, Henry Hayes
Notre Dame San Jose, San Jose, California
Students: Anchal Bhardwaj, Parnika Chaturvedi, Anika Ganesh
Opus Academy, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Students: Andy Teng Huang, Andrew Yongbing Lin, Erwin Zichen Wang, Keven Ziting Pi, Sunny Xingrui Liu, Victor Hong-Yi Zhang
Oxbridge Academy, West Palm Beach, Florida
Students: Gabriela Matzen, Sophia Derrin, Wilson Stewart, Caroline Prentice, Ryan Farinas
Pacific Bay Christian School, Pacifica, California
Students: Titus Cheng, Wesley Liu, Duvessa Murphy, Adam Neuendorff, Chan Thar Wai Tun
The Perse School, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Students: Sanjana Bhatnagar, Rebecca Li, Alina Turchyn
Potomac Oak, Rockville, Maryland
Students: Kaden Chien, Evelyn Shue, Jonathan Fan, Derek Mu, Lily Peng, Alexander Liu
Saigon South International School, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Students: Meherika Majumdar, Halia Zimmermann, Milly Nguyen, Mikel Torres, Luke Tran
Shenzhen Academy of International Education, Shenzhen, China
Students: Shang-Le Lin, Beini Tang, Jiahao Xu, Zhaoyi Zheng
St. Mark's School of Texas (Team B), Dallas, Texas
Students: Anish Guddati, Justin Tong, Ashrit, Manduva, Alex Pan
St. Mark's School of Texas (Team C), Dallas, Texas
Students: Noah Asmerom, Howard Zhang, Harry Wang, Ahsan Tahirkheli
Stamford High School, Stamford, Connecticut
Students: Deep Banerjee, Julia Schager, Ryan Shoztic, Mey Silvey, Ben Yudolevich
Stuyvesant High School (Team 1), New York, New York
Students: Mikayla Lin, Kai Xuan Li, Nika Raiffe, Chenkai Shen, Calvin Zhang, Unique Zhang
Stuyvesant High School (Team 2), New York, New York
Students: Philip Virata, Kikyo Makino-Siller, Uma Sukhu, Amrisha Roy
True North School, Hanoi, Vietnam
Students: Pham Tran Bao Chau, Phan Ngoc Vy, Nguyen Phuong Anh, Nguyen Minh, Nhan
UWC South East Asia, Singapore
Students: Amelia Fung, Jason Hausenloy, Jeenaev Shah, Harshini Shankar, Niranjana Sriramagopalan, Hanqi Zhu
Wasatch Independent Debate League, Riverton, Utah
Students: Richard Henage, Owen Amakasu, Bronson Bishop, Alexander Henage
Webb City High School, Webb City, Missouri
Students: Evan Garrison, Bria Brattin, McKenzie Jones
Wesley Chapel High School, Wesley Chapel, Florida
Students: Jake Piller, Sean Donahue, Aidan Wilson, Nathanio Scott, Valentino Scott, Isabella Guzman
YK Pao School, Shanghai, China
Students: Yingqi, Lu, Yanyue Zheng, Ruoan Zhang
Advancing teams will receive an e-mail with additional information.
You can click the PDF of the IPPF bracket to view the pairings for the written rounds of the competition. The bracket notes the side (affirmative or negative) assigned to each team.
The “Top 64” teams will now compete in a single-elimination, written debate tournament. Teams will continue to debate the topic, “ Resolved: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an effective model for international cooperation .” Essays will be volleyed 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 opportunity to compete in the oral debate finals in New York City for the $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 month.
On behalf of the Brewer Foundation and NYU, thank you to every team and student that submitted an essay. The judges were impressed by the strength of your submissions!