Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Team
2026 First Meeting
Tuesday, August 18
3:30pm
Katherine Bradfield Student Lounge (Fiske Hall basement)
All WSU undergraduates are eligible!
Coach: Susan Castro
What is the APPE Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl?
- Teams of undergraduates from across the nation compete in regional and national matches where they analyze cases with multiple ethical dimensions and present their ethical analysis for a panel of judges.
- Cases are drawn from real-life examples that span many areas of ethics, including (but not limited to) bioethics, education, engineering, environmental, social and political, technology and research.
- Teams in the competition are judged on clarity and insight rather than beating your opponent.
Why participate?
- It’s fun! Students not only get to work with one another to craft detailed assessments of real cases, but they also get to meet students from other universities, too.
- It’s free! No payment required.
- It improves your critical thinking and communication skills.
- A unique experience to discuss in job/school application letters.
What are the expectations?
- Meetings will be held twice a week for the 8-9 weeks before the competition in the Fall semester. Each meeting will last roughly an hour.
- For the competition, teams should be comprised of 3-5 students. Registering multiple teams is possible if enough people want to participate.
- If you're not interested in competing, you're still welcome to attend meetings to discuss the cases.
Regional Date: first or second Saturday in November
* If the team advances, National Competition: March
(Spoiler: The WSU team did great!)
