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2025 International Collegiate Ethics Olympiad Registration Open

For collegiate Ethics Bowl teams anywhere in the world, consider the Ethics Olympiad with our friends Down Under this fall. If you’re unfamiliar, “Olympiad” in this case is the same as Bowl. And “tertiary” just means college/university-level.

Hosted via Zoom and sponsored in part by the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics, registration is $50 Australian per member or $250 Australian per team (with current exchange rates, that’s $31 or $157 U.S. dollars).

Organizer Matthew Wills always puts on a fun show, and and nobody coordinates ethics-events across time zones like him. And speaking of time zones, it looks like things will kick off at 8 a.m. Hong Kong time on Thursday, October 9th and wrap up just after noon, but that should be 8 p.m. Wednesday, October 8th until just after midnight EST, or 5 p.m. through 9:30 for U.S. teams on Pacific time.

For details on the case pool and rules or to register, email Matthew at EthicsOlympiad (at) gmail.com or visit the official registration site here.

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Inaugural International Tertiary Ethics Olympiad Coming April 2023

According to a recent press release, leaders in the US and Australia have agreed to hold the very first International Collegiate Ethics Bowl (aka Tertiary Ethics Olympiad) this coming April!

“In October 2022, ten university teams participated in the first-ever Tertiary Ethics Olympiad. Teams from universities in Queensland, NSW, Victoria, ACT and Western Australia participated in these heats. And in the end, teams from ANU and Monash University were awarded medals. This event is based on the popular Inter-Collegiate Ethics Bowl held annually in the US for nearly three decades. Given the long history of running these events in the US and the recent history of running Ethics Olympiads in Australasia, it made sense for the first International Tertiary Ethics Olympiad to happen on Wednesday, 19th April. Four top teams from Australasia will face the top US teams from the recent Intercollegiate US Ethics Bowl.”

To clarify, while it’ll be held the morning of Wednesday, April 19th down under, it’ll still be the evening of Tuesday, April 18th in the U.S. However, not too late – 6 til 10:30 Eastern, 3 to 7:30 Pacific. Awesome that a mutually amenable schedule was set.

To register a team, click here. To sign up to observe, email admin@ethicsolympiad.org. And for more info on Ethics Olympiad generally, visit ethicsolympiad.org.

Thanks to the folks on all sides for making this happen, chiefly Matthew Wills and John Garcia. Someone needed to do it. No one was. Way to be the change rather than merely talking or dreaming about it. Cheers!