Jamie is a grade 11 student studying the IB and AP programme at Upper Canada College. He has been involved in debate for over 3 years, and has achieved success in a host of local & international tournaments. Jamie was the champion of UBC HST, a UPenn World Schools semifinalist, a semifinalist at Hart House, an ARGO Open semifinalist and top speaker, a McGill BP finalist, and a Queen’s BP finalist. He was also an Oxford Octofinalist and top 10 speaker, and has hosted several of his own tournaments. Outside of debate, Jamie has founded a number of startups and organizations, such as Students2Speak, with the goal of widening his perspective of the world. In his spare time, he enjoys biking, travelling, programming innovative mobile/web apps, and meeting new people. Send me a message for inquiries about Students2Speak or if you want to have a chat about anything!

Sherry Shu is a 12th grade student at St. Robert Catholic High School. She has a passion for debate and public speaking, finding competitive success in both the British Parliamentary and World Schools styles. She was a Stanford World Schools quarterfinalist, UPenn World Schools semifinalist, ARGO Open semifinalist and top speaker, McGill BP finalist, and Queen’s BP finalist. Notably, her team qualified to be one of the two non-national teams entering octofinals at Oxford World Schools. She has also achieved first place internationally in DECA, a business case competition. In her free time, she enjoys writing quirky short stories and articles, watching Netflix sitcoms, and leading educational events and workshops. 

Amber is an upcoming student at UCLA studying Political Science (Pre-Law). She has been competing in BP,  Worlds, and Model UN for four years. During this time, she was lucky enough to have been awarded ARGO semi-finalist, UBC HST Champion, York Women's Semi finalist, The Novice Cup finalist, Harvard Octofinalist among other awards. In her free time, she enjoys watching Netflix shows, read, workout, and drink coffee. 

Jack is a 12th grade student at Upper Canada College with numerous accomplishments at both international and local tournaments. Jack is a McGill Finalist, a U of T Hart house Semifinalist, University of Waterloo semifinalist, and UBC Finalist. Jack is also a Harvard WSDC Octofinalist and a member of the UCC debate club executive team. Outside of debate, Jack is also the executive head of programs at the World Affairs Conference, as well as a member of the operations team and a tutor and member of the operations team for Bloom Education, an international nonprofit organization focused on increasing the quality of education in rural China. In his free time, he enjoys following current events, reading philosophy and classic novels, and attempting to write an IB Global Politics handbook. 

Elizabeth is an 11th Grade student at Branksome Hall with accomplishments in several prestigious Canadian tournaments, including being the 3rd speaker at Hart House, a finalist at UBC, and a semifinalist at both McGill and Queens 2021. Internationally, she competed amongst numerous national teams and managed to make octofinals at Oxford, Harvard, and Stanford WSDC, as well semifinals for ARGO WSDC. Not only is she a member of Branksome’s debate executive team, she also has over three years of tutoring experience for 20+ students from both Canada and China. In her spare time, she enjoys having existential crises while reading philosophy and listening to musicals. 

Jin is a Grade Nine studying at Thornhill Secondary School. He has had many debate achievements such as claiming the Junior National British Parliamentary Champion, winning Waterloo BP High School Open Tournament, being the top breaking team and fifth speaker of McMasters BP High School Open Tournament and breaking to quarterfinals at Upenn Worlds School Debate Tournament. He is the top speaker, top team, going undefeated, and finalist at Waterloo/DebateGo BP High School Tournament and has also went undefeated and been a Gold finalist at Saskatoon Summer High School Tournament. He is also a Queens BP High School Tournament Semi-finalist and a quarterfinalist at both Stanford WSDC Tournament as well as NDT High School Debate Tournament, where he spoke tenth. Jin has also competed in a Junior FBLA Challenge and is part of Markham Mayor's Youth Council. In his spare time, Jin enjoys playing basketball competitively, ziplining, biking, and watching his favourite Netflix shows such as Stranger Things and the Crown to name a few. He is also very prone to experiancing existential crises.

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Andrew is an 11th grade student at A.Y. Jackson Secondary School. He has been debating competitively for the past two years, and his biggest accomplishments include being a UPenn WST Semifinalist, ARGO Worlds Semifinalist, and most notably, one of the two non-national teams to enter the octofinals at Oxford Worlds. In his free time, he enjoys flexing on his friends on the piano, collecting sports spec, listening to music, and being cyberbullied by Kevin. 

David is a grade 12 student at Dr. G. W. Williams Secondary School. He has been on his school's debate club for 3 years and been competitively debating for over 2 years. Some of his achievements include making Quarterfinals at 2021 Western HST, making Octofinals at 2021 Harvard College World Schools, making Schools Finals at Doxbridge 4, and making open finals and speaking 2nd at 2021 Waterloo DebateGo. When not debating, he enjoys playing piano, going on biking sessions with friends, and tennis. 

Erick is a grade 9 student from Westmount Charter School in Alberta. He's been competitively debating for two years now, and has placed incredibly high in a multitude of local and international tournaments. He's a Quarterfinalist at Prague, Finalist at Stanford, Semifinalist and Novice Top Speaker at Durham Schools, Schools Semifinalist and Schools 7th Speaker at Doxbridge 4, Secondary School Champions at Asian BP, as well as winning the Pre-University finals at Asian WSDC. But apart from debate, Erick enjoys playing piano as well as hanging out with friends. If he isn't staring at the tabs of tournaments, hosting his own tournaments, or trying to backtab an entire comp from one exposed speaker score, you can find him drinking coffee like the addict he is, or working as a full time un-paid janitor on Split in Valorant, mopping the floor with his Iron 3 aim. 

Helen Zhang is a grade 10 student at WOSS who has participated in many debates since she learned about it at the age of 12. Though she still has a lot to learn about the art of debate she has been a part of her school’s debate team, as well as other related organizations such as Model UN. Though she has not have many achievements in debate, Helen Zhang believes that debate is a very important skill to have and continues to advocate and educate others about it. Some of her other non-debate achievements include: several synchronized skating medals, writing two novels before the age of 15 (unpublished), and getting bronze in VEX-IQ in Gr. 7. Currently, Helen Zhang is a graphic designer at Students to Speak. 

Ryan is a grade 11 currently involved in debate, Model UN, and Deca at Upper Canada College. On the debate team, him and his partner Jerry Wu have attended various tournaments such as Western, McGill, and Harvard World Schools.  He is also especially interested in topics of Political Philosophy, law, and ethics. On top of co-developing the website, he is responsible for reaching out to various speakers in fields relevant to debate in order to educate fellow students.

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