International Success for Young Bahrain Scholars
The World Scholar’s Cup ‘Tournament of Champions’ took place at Yale University in the USA last week, with students from St Christopher’s School winning some of the major prizes.
The St Christopher’s team of Noor Halim, Joseph Anhorn and Laura Beck were the top performers from around the Gulf, winning two of the four competition elements in the Junior Division of the programme. This was despite strong competition from students from over 40 countries. They were classified as the top team in Debating and Writing. Noor was also the winner of the Writing and Joseph was second place in Debating individually. They were competing against 700 other students who had travelled to Yale University after securing their places at the previous global rounds of the competition in Bangkok and Prague. They were also classified as the second best team overall in the competition. Approximately 40,000 students take part in the World Scholar’s Cup programme each year internationally and the ‘Tournament of Champions’ is the finale of the annual competition.
Each annual World Scholar’s Cup competition has a theme – ‘An Imperfect World’ in 2016, involving six interrelated subjects – Art & Music, Literature, History, Science, Social Studies and a Special Topic, ‘Crime and Justice’. The World Scholar’s Cup ‘Tournament of Champions, was held at Yale University, recently ranked in the top 10 of the world’s universities. Some of the World Scholar’s Cup ‘Tournament of Champions’ events took place in the historic campus of the university itself, including the prize ceremony being held at the magnificent Woolsey Hall, where university students graduate. Thomas Griffith had the honour of carrying the Bahrain flag in the Closing Ceremony.
All 26 of the St Christopher’s School students competing at the ‘Tournament of Champions’ came home with at least one medal, just recognition of all of their efforts in learning the six subjects. Joseph Anhorn was chosen for the public debate showcase along with ex-St Christopher’s student Divya Raina. They debated vigorously the effect of patriotism in front of a large audience. The St Christopher’s School students also enjoyed visits to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University and New York on their trip.
For more information, contact Adrian Walker at adrian.walker@st-chris.net
RESULTS
| WORLD SCHOLAR’S CUP – TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS | |||||
| JUNIOR DIVISION STUDENTS | |||||
| Name | Debating | Writing | Challenge | Scholar’s Bowl | Overall |
| Luke Bennett | Medal | History, Arts, Special Area and overall medals | Medal | ||
| Eli Saghbini | Medal | Art and overall medals | |||
| Kamilah El Kanfoudi | Medal | Arts, top 10 in Special Area and overall medals | Medal | ||
| Ahsab Chowdhury | Medal | Arts and overall medals | Medal | ||
| Rayyan Ali | Medal | Medal | Arts, Science and overall medals | Medal | 57th place overall |
| Taha Ansari | Medal | Overall medal | Medal | ||
| Kate Pearey | Medal | Medal | Arts and overall medals | ||
| Layal Kazerooni | Medal | Medal | Overall medal | ||
| Celine Abuzahra | Medal | Medal | Overall medal | ||
| Noor Halim | 1st place team | 1st place team | Special Area and overall medals | 11th place | 17th place individually |
| 1st place individually | 2nd place team | ||||
| Laura Beck | 1st place team | 1st place team | Overall medal | 11th place | 52nd place individually |
| 20th individually | 2nd place team | ||||
| Joseph Anhorn | 1st place team | 1st place team | Overall medal | 11th place | 25th place individually |
| 2nd place individually | 44th individually | 2nd place team | |||
| Chaitanya Prakash | Medal | Literature medal | 12th place | ||
| Ryan Amirthan | Medal | 89th place | 12th place | Medal | |
| Krishna Tilani | Medal | 12th place | |||
| SENIOR DIVISION STUDENTS | |||||
| Name | Debating | Writing | Challenge | Scholar’s Bowl | Overall |
| Llewellyn Forward | 11th team | Overall medal | Medal | Medal | |
| 11th individually | |||||
| Thomas Griffith | 11th team | Medals (History, Special Area, Social Studies and overall) | Medal | 47th place individually | |
| 80th individually | |||||
| Alexia Skrypnyk | 11th team | Overall medal | |||
| Ingrid Bahnemann | 20th team | Medal | Overall medal | Medal | |
| Medal | |||||
| Jamie Clark | 20th team | Medal | Overall medal | Medal | |
| Medal | |||||
| Ramsey Tawfick | 20th team | Medal | Overall medal | Medal | |
| 43rd individually | |||||
| Akshat Mittal | Medal (History, overall) | ||||
| Haytham McDowall-Rose | Overall medal | ||||
| Varun Anand | Medal | Overall medal | |||
| Aisha Degia | Medal | 19th place team | Overall medal | ||
| Arwa Jibril | Medal | 19th place team | Medals (Social Studies, Science, overall) | 78th place individually | |
| 88th place individually | |||||
