After some promising early data collection last year, we’re excited to announce that for the 2023-2024 academic year, the Parr Center for Ethics will be conducting a new study to investigate how participating in the National High School Ethics Bowl affects students’ intellectual and interpersonal traits.

Four to bring student ideas to the Center of Ethics Bowl planning and governance.

As the National High School Ethics Bowl prepares to open its 2023-2024 Season this Fall, the NHSEB team is excited to announce some exciting developments and new resources which are now available to our community. We hope you'll take advantage of these opportunities, and we're excited to get to work on NHSEB's best year yet.

Parr Center Director of Outreach Michael Vazquez and Consulting Research Scientist Michael Prinzing have recently published an open-access article on the educational value and impact of the National High School Ethics Bowl program.

We are very proud to announce that Maria Hester is the inaugural winner of the National High School Ethics Bowl’s Austin Foushee Alumni Scholarship. Hester is a recent graduate of the School for Creative Studies in Durham, NC, and a competitor in the North Carolina High School Ethics Bowl. Her application essays stood out among over a dozen candidates, and we look forward to welcoming her to the UNC Chapel Hill campus later this Fall!

The National High School Ethics Bowl is pleased to invite student applications for two vacant seats on the NHSEB Student Advisory Council.

As we look forward to our 2023-2024 Season, the National High School Ethics Bowl is excited to announce a variety of new leadership and advisory appointments across NHSEB’s Administration Team, Executive Committee, and Advisory Board.

This Summer, in addition to our recently launched 2022-2023 Feedback Survey, the NHSEB Executive Committee and Advisory Board will be conducting three topical Community Town Hall sessions for real-time feedback—one each in June, July, and August.

Students, coaches, and organizers: Please take NHSEB’s 2022-2023 Feedback Survey (completable in about 10 minutes) to help us learn, improve, and plan for the future of NHSEB!

Congratulations to our partners at UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Public Philosophy on their selection as the 2022 winner of the American Philosophical Association and Philosophy Documentation Center’s Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs!

Senior Austin Foushee’s commitment to the National High School Ethics Bowl has helped encourage the next generation of deep thinkers and inspired the program’s first alumni scholarship.

This Spring, the Director and Executive Committee of the National High School Ethics Bowl are proud to announce the Austin Foushee Alumni Scholarship, and excitedly invite applications from prospective students.

On the weekend of March 31-April 2, the Parr Center was proud to host NHSEB10: The 2023 National High School Ethics Bowl Championship. This event was a special one, coinciding with the tenth anniversary of the NHSEB program’s founding in the 2012-2013 academic year

Parr Center Graduate Assistant Delaney Thull is a 2022-2023 recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award from Carolina Center for Public Service’s APPLES Service-Learning Initiative for her work on the Philosophy Department’s innovative PHIL 292 course, Democratic Deliberation Across the Rural-Urban Divide.

NHSEB Director Alex Richardson has been appointed to a three-year term on the American Philosophical Association’s Committee on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy. Alex’s term will begin July 1 of this year and run through 2026.

To culminate the National High School Ethics Bowl’s largest and most competitive season yet, the Parr Center for Ethics is thrilled to announce NHSEB 10: The 2023 NHSEB National Championship. This year has been a historic one, and will mark the tenth anniversary of NHSEB's original founding in the 2012-2013 academic year.

This month, the Parr Center team was pleased to welcome over 100 volunteers from NHSEB Regional Competitions around the country to a series of Judge Training Clinics on NHSEBAcademy Live.

As institutions around the country cautiously return to normal operations in a new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, most NHSEB Regional Competitions, too, are returning to primarily in-person events. In 2022-2023, 95% of NHSEB Regionals will be conducted in-person. From the very first iterations of NHSEBOne, it has always been NHSEB HQ’s intention to make its features generalizable post-pandemic, while keeping its video-conferencing centric use model available for scrimmaging, outreach events, and NHSEB’s new Divisional Playoff Circuit. This year’s major update to the NHSEBOne web app, which we’re calling Companion Mode, is a bold initial step in this direction, and we look forward to sharing it with you during the 2022-2023 Season.

A Year-End Letter from NHSEB Director Alex Richardson