Off The Cuff – Extempore Competition

On the 17^th of this month, Sophia Club conducted an extempore competition where the speakers were judged both on their knowledge of philosophy and the ability to express their thoughts. The competition was held in two stages. 

The judges of the extempore

The first stage, which was the qualifying round was a quiz on modern and Indian philosophy. The quiz was mind grilling and six out of ten teams qualified for the next round that was the extempore. The extempore was a little different than the conventional kind as a team of speakers had to take a topic each from the two topic bowls and the second speaker had to connect to what the first speaker had delivered. The topic bowls had a number of topics like women of today, social media in a democracy, Donald Trump’s presidency, Indian education system and many more which were worked upon with meticulous effort by the speakers. 

First Stage : Quiz

The event was judged by Dr. Anthony sir and Prof. Robin sir who had a tough time judging as all the speakers spoke very well. 

The winners were announced to be Paras Chhetri and Neha Kangralkar.  The first runner up were Sankalp Pareek and Ritisha Gupta and the second runner up were Devansh Agarwal and Ashish Rariya. 

Dr. Anthony and Prof. Robin

After the event, Dr. Anthony sir and Prof. Robin sir congratulated all the participants for their pensive thoughts and scrupulous efforts put into each topic. Dr. Anthony sir and Prof. Robin sir were presented with a small token of gratitude by the office bearers of Sophia Club for their support in conducting the ongoing activities of the club.

The Winners

The Second Runner Up

The First Runner Up

 

Group Photo of the Organizers and the Participants.