Host – Student Activities Committee – IEEE Bangalore Section

Date - Sep 29th and 5th Oct, 2022

Participants: 50+ in the 1st round and 10 shortlisted for the debate round

Event Details:

Debate has been considered one of the powerful platforms to showcase vocabulary, modulation and speech skills, it provides an open platform to express our thoughts and also allows us to bring ideas into action. The Voice Out is one such platform for degree students to share their thoughts with the world. The preliminary stage featured pick and speech where participants were chosen with unique techno-social topics and amused the audience with their unique narration. The top 10 performers from this round will be participating in the debate round. The verbal dangal is on the way!

Key Takeaways:

The registered participants were asked to spin the wheel to choose a topic either technical or non-technical; they are expected to speak on that topic for about 3 minutes. A running clock starts from the time they start to monitor their speech and have control of their speech accordingly. The judges were asked to evaluate the following points: clarity of problem statement, language usage, relativity and facts presentation, and modulation & overall impact.

The debate round would have the following theme

“Development, but at the cost of nature? (Wrt Bengaluru Rains)

On one hand, we wouldn’t have had the blooming tech industry if not for Whitefield, Bengaluru is the Silicon City of India because of these global, national and regional tech companies. But on the other hand, we saw that development has come at the cost of nature.

What is right? What is wrong?”