Joint School Chinese Debating Society

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Established by local secondary students in 1966, the Joint School Chinese Debating Society, (JSCDS, in Traditional Chinese: 聯校中文辯論學會) is a non-profit joint-school society in Hong Kong. The Joint School Chinese Debating Society is dedicated to enhancing students' interest in Chinese debating and public speaking.

By convening the best crop of students from different schools in Hong Kong, the society undertakes large-scale interschool debating championship and various related projects so that students can put their aspiration into practice and broaden their social understanding. It organizes the Joint School Chinese Debating Competition, the oldest Cantonese Debating Competition yearly. It also arranges diversified activities in Hong Kong, in order to promote Chinese Debate, and also to promote friendship between different secondary schools.

1 Organization
2 Competition
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Organization

The JSCDS is a union for member secondary schools. Each member school may send two student representatives as commissioners to the Council of Commissioners, the highest authority of the society.

The daily operation of the Society is carried out by the Executive Committee, which consists of 10 members.

Title	President	Vice-president	Treasurer	Secretary	Public Relations Manager	Promotion Manager	Tournament Managers
No. of Post	1	1	1	1	1	1	4

In the first meeting of the Council of Commissioners of the year, the new members of the Executive Committee should be elected anonymously.

The Society is mainly funded by its member schools' annual subscription fee, with also occasional sponsors from different organizations.

[edit] Competition

As in the season 2006 - 2007, it has 36 member schools. La Salle College and Queen's College, with 8 titles, are the most frequent winners of the competition.