Tag: Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl

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2026-2027 IEB Regional Case Set Live, Registration Open

Wednesday at noon the brand new Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl case set was released by APPE. Skimming just now, there are cool cases on:

  • AI-autonomous weapons
  • Looksmaxxing
  • Polymarket gambling
  • Veiled calls for political violence
  • Calls to repatriate the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum to Egypt
  • More!

Registration is also open, with a limited number of slots available at each event. I’ve already registered my college team for the Ohio River Valley IEB regional to be hosted by the University of Cincinnati early December. And since the NHSEB case set isn’t yet live, I’ve dogeared two cases for my high school team to discuss at our weekly practice this afternoon: #7, “Equal Access Activism,” about accommodating the hearing-impaired at drive throughs, as well as #10, “To Be, or Not to Be…Forgotten?” about governments and platforms removing our online footprints by default and/or upon request.

Thanks to the good folks at APPE, IEB leadership, IEB regional organizers, and the IEB case writing committee for all the behind-the-scenes work this requires! If you’d like to register your team, browse regional options, or download the case set, visit APPE’s IEB site.

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1st International Tertiary Ethics Bowl-Olympiad Results

Congratulations to Australian National University in taking both the gold and bronze medals in the first international collegiate Ethics Bowl/Olympiad! I had the honor of volunteer judging the evening of the 18th (the morning of the 19th in Australia) and the competition was impressive on several levels, with ultra-prepared teams from the U.S. and Down Under, and a collegial, collaborative spirit running all the way from Ethics Olympiad Director Matthew Wills and Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Director John Garcia, through judges, coaches and teams.

According to organizer Matthew Wills, the winners were:

Gold – Australian National University Team 2

Silver – Tufts University

Bronze – Australian National University Team 1

Whitworth University was close behind in fourth, with honorable mentions awarded to Tufts University, University of Chicago and Monash University.

Kudos to Matthew and John for making this first collegiate-level international Bowl/Olympiad a reality, to the judges for volunteering their valuable time, and to the coaches and teams for spreading the goodwill of our unique approach to difficult moral and political issues across oceans and around the world. It’s needed in every country, and through partnerships like these the ethically-minded can combine forces, mutually empowering and elevating discourse one conversation at a time.