Pre-College Ethics Interest Group
Updated August 2, 2010
Pre-College Ethics Interest Group News
The Pre-College Ethics Interest Group (PEIG) met for the first time at the Association for Practical and Professional Ethic's 2009 Annual Meeting in Cincinnati. Over twenty members interested in bringing an ethics-rich curriculum to pre-college students met to discuss strategies to better accomplish this goal. The group agreed to focus first on creating regional high school ethics bowls using the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl model.
To date, we know of five high school ethics bowls that have taken place in 2009-2010.
East Tennessee High School Ethics Bowl – November 19, 2009 – University of Tennessee
Catholic High School won the First Annual East Tennessee High School Ethics Bowl in a close contest with Tennessee School for the Deaf. Philosophy graduate student Matt Deaton organized the event.
Read an article about the event: http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/nov/24/ethics-bowl-introduces-philosophies/
For more information, contact Matt Deaton: mattdeaton@ymail.com
The first annual Long Island HS Ethics Bowl – April 10 – Bethpage, NY
Roslyn High School won a very close match: twelve teams from eight schools participated.
For more information, contact Roberta Israleoff: risraeloff@squirefoundation.org
The third annual Baltimore Area HS Ethics Bowl – May 8 - Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics, University of Baltimore
More information to come.
The third annual Pinellas County (FL) High School Ethics Bowl – April 17 – St. Petersburg College (Seminole Campus)
St. Petersburg HS won a hard-fought championship. Ten teams from eight schools participated.
For more information, contact George Sherman: Sherman.George@spcollege.edu.
The Stevens Institute of Technology – May 20 - Hoboken, NJ
Last year, 16 teams competed. For more information: http://buzz.stevens.edu/index.php/stevens-ethics-bowl
The third annual Stevens Institute of Technology Science and Technology Ethics Bowl took place on May 20, 2010. Sixteen teams from 12 New York and New Jersey high schools competed. The three winners were the Spence School, Bronx High School of Science (team 2) and the Academy of Allied Health and Science.
Additional information about the event can be found at:
http://www.stevens.edu/sit/admissions/highschool/ethics-bowl-2010.cfm
[The picture shows the winning team. From left to right: Andrea von Scheltinga, Grace Lindsey, Zoë Hitzig and Cordelia Mendez; The Spence School.]
For more information about high school ethics bowls, visit: The Squire Family Foundation: http://squirefoundation.org/ethics_bowl.html
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