"What was hard was that both of the teams have strong things for showing what is good and why we need both. I think we win because Ms. Mankel says that we were giving a lot of ideas and we were speaking in English." - Daniela
"I like debate because you could discuss your answer and what you think. What I think was hard was looking for your ideas and calming down when the other team said something that was wrong about our team." -Anny Maria
"I like debate because I love debating with people about things that I know a lot about. I think my team won because we used more things to explain and we showed things about the other team that were not good." - Jeffery
"I like debate because we learn more from the other people and we get more ideas. My team won because we talked more than the other one and we gave more detail for the graph on the debate." - Jean
"I like debate because I learned new things and it is fun to debate and learn these things." - Yaritza
"I like debate because we get to express our ideas and hear other ideas. The team that won was the other group because they worked as a team so they found their result." - Lawrence
"I think the hardest thing was the opening because if you don't do it well your team can lose. I think our team won because we were explaining and talking a lot." - Jose
Thoughts from the Algebra students