The Brewer Foundation and New York University are proud to announce the “Top 64” teams for the 25th annual International Public Policy Forum (IPPF) – the world’s only contest that gives high school students the opportunity to engage in written and oral debates on issues of global importance.

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This year marked a milestone for the IPPF, with a record 332 teams from 39 countries submitting qualifying round essays on the global education crisis. It was the largest and most internationally diverse field in the competition’s history.
 

We extend our sincere gratitude to all participating students for the time and thought you dedicated to this year’s topic: “Resolved: The Group of 20 Nations should levy a global education tax equal to 1% of each member country's gross domestic product to establish a dedicated international organization that supports the provision of universal, free, quality primary and secondary education.”  

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Through your research and writing, you helped advance a worldwide conversation on how to ensure access to quality education for all.

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Below is the list of advancing teams, presented in alphabetical order. Because several schools submitted multiple entries, the names of the students on each advancing team are included for clarity.

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Academy of Classical Christian Studies, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Students: Kaiser Braly, Gunnar Larson, Elliot Stutes

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Alpha Co, La Crescenta, California
Students: Michael Kim, Sean Lue, Katie Moon

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American School Dhahran, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Students: Jayden Lee, Jiseong Chung, Raahim Lone

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BASIS International School Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
Students: Ching “Emma” Lin, Qianchen “Eric” Sun, Alice Wu, Zirui “Edric” Wang

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Bergen Debate Club, Fort Lee, New Jersey
Students: Jeeya Ballaney, Suvid Bordia, Sophie Hao, Taran Wadhera

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British International School Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Students: Neil Antony Benny, Daniel Edward Pitts, Tanush Yogesh More

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Brookfield East High School, Brookfield, Wisconsin
Students: Lily Sun, Elise Miller, Srinidhi Chitluri

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Carroll Senior High School, Southlake, Texas
Students: Tanvi Golla, Arnav Kakarala, Amber Lin, Aditi Nagunoori, Natalie Wang

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Çevre High School, Istanbul, Turkey
Students: Duru Yonar, Dima Köksal, Ayşe Karadeniz, Zerya Lorin Gürkan

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College Preparatory School of America, Lombard, Illinois
Students: Aamina Golewale, Huda Ali, Nabeeha Ahmed, Nabiha Mohammed, Tayyaba Tajammul

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Cypress Ranch High School, Cypress, Texas
Students: Shahad Attar, Nikhil Gokhale, Tarannum Taha, Nicholas Xydas, Ishana Vutukuru, Ahir Valluri, Simran Verma, Jennifer Dinh

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Damien Memorial School, Honolulu, Hawaii
Students: Ciana Aquino, Nataniel Balantac, Jethro Bumanglag, Kacie Cabiles, Sophia Capili, Nalani Dela Cruz, Michelle Lee, Riley Malasig, Abigail Pasion, Theresa Pasion, Mikayla Saito, Hideo Tsukiyama

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Debate Education Forum, Mayfair, London, United Kingdom
Students: Kazi Zuairia Binte Habib, Claudia Harper, Arjun Jaya, Kyle Hu

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Delbarton School, Morristown, New Jersey
Students: Andrew Kapp, Ryan Amin, Holden Leidl, John Dufner, Sebastian Thomas

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The Episcopal School of Dallas, Dallas, Texas
Students: Alexa Avramis, Cooper Ayers, Krisha Bhatnagar, Annabel Brown, Zachary Fish, Alexandra Lackey, Kate Lewis, Gabriela Loewen-Eells

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Flower Mound High School, Flower Mound, Texas
Students: Krish Kulkarni, Pravith Munipalle, Surya Dasari

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German European School Singapore, Singapore
Students: Lucas Gargiulo, Kiran Wiederhofer, Camille Bouchez

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Grand Oaks High School, Spring, Texas
Students: Gabriella Buhl, Peyton-Quinn Love, MaKaila Ott, Evelynn Phillips, Parker Russo, Annika Thomas

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Greenwich High School, Greenwich, CT
Students: Raghav Ramji, Arnav Bhatia, Alex Jackson, Neev Nedungadi

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Hamilton High School, Chandler, Arizona
Students: Katheryn (Katie) Chan, Sophia Zhao, Aayush Kalmadi, Tony Liu

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The Hockaday School, Dallas, Texas
Students: Anusha Chowdhary, Kaitlyn Ouyang, Lillian Vollbrecht, Vivian Zhou

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Ivy Bridge Academy, Johns Creek, Georgia (Team 1)
Students: Vivian Chen, Jiin Choi, Samuel Choi, Ayanna Das, Abigail Kim, Ananya Kommuri, Leo Leger, Ted Park, Christopher Shin, Gabby Shin, Ray Ye

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Ivy Bridge Academy, Johns Creek, Georgia (Team 2)
Students: Aanya Arikepudi, Nirvi Baddela, Ella Chidolue, Paavana Davuluri, Isaac Hong, Pranay Kalra, Ethan Kwon, Neev Paul, Olivia Wang, Eric Xu

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Jabberwocky Studio, Delhi, India
Students: Shaarav Gupta, Ganeve Kaur, Miraya Chitkara, Ananya Rana

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Jasper High School, Plano, Texas 
Students: Abhay Harika, Pratham Karia, Jay Lee, Dan Xie, Jacob Yang

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Kealakehe Public High School, Kailua Kona, Hawaii
Students: Azalea Thorp, Lucy Cameron, Zachariah Smith, Autumn Brown, June Wheeler, Olivia Rudolph, Kaʻea Adams

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King George British International School, Bucharest, Romania
Students: Iana Mihulescu, Estelle Badarni, Luca Guruiţă, Şerban Stanciu, Ema Dumitru, Irina Bănilă, Amira Badarni

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KIPS College Sargodha / Aitchison College, Punjab, Pakistan
Students: Zainab Jamshed, Sayyed Muhammad Haider Ali, Bahawal Hussain Chattha, Hadi Mubashir Kazmi

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Marymount Academy International, Montreal, Canada
Students: Bokyung Chung, Sanya Bucktawar, Shaya Catarina Fadel, Ranim Sleiman, Drisana Ravichandran, Saia Wallis

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Millburn High School, Millburn, New Jersey
Students: Jake Silberstein, Rohan Nigam, Saanvi Kulkarni, Eleri Davies

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Mountain View-Los Altos Speech and Debate, Mountain View, California
Students: Amyra Kedia, Andrea Wong, Charlene Wang, Laasya Kompella, Neha Nalumasu, Veda Mungara

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Newark Academy, Livingston, New Jersey
Students: Sophia Mu, Abi Mengistu, Leah Gershgorin

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North Allegheny Senior High School, Wexford, Pennsylvania
Students: Sanjeev Arora, Kaartic Muralidharan, Eric Peng, Aayushi Vardhan,  Samuel Xiao, Casey Yang

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Northport High School, Northport, New York
Students: Josh Fields, Nora Magas, Andrew McRoy

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Notre Dame High School, Sherman Oaks, California
Students: Madeleine Khammar, Cailyn Paredes, Scarlett Snoke

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Notre Dame San Jose, San Jose, California
Students: Arushi Shah, Janani Janakiraman, Aanya Ramaswamy, Anushka Arjun, Aahana Nagwekar

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Nova High School, Davie, Florida
Students: Jolie Filpo, Christie Carlo, Rubab Asif

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Orlando Science High School, Orlando, Florida
Students: Aarati Abhilash, Madhu Chintalapati, Srihitha Doddi, Anushka Patni, Zahra Unlu

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Panther Creek High School, Frisco, Texas
Students: Siri Chamaraj, Kanishka Jayakumar, Kinisha Katta

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Phillips Academy Andover, Andover, Massachusetts
Students: Yara Handchin, Kristen Ma, Vivian Plouffe

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Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire
Students: Aryan Agarwal, Kate Gilchrist, Minnie Kim, Alexa Morel, Melia Thibault

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PM SHRI Kendriya Vidyalaya 1, AFS Sambra, Karnataka, India
Students: Anirudh Singh, Varshini, Sahana Basavaraj Kunchanur, Zoya Ansari

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Pomperaug Regional High School, Southbury, Connecticut
Students: Luciano Bevilacqua, Adam Wisnefsky, Matthew Nespoli

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Richland High School, Prosper, Texas
Students: Sreekar Chalamalasetty, Gavin Hernandez, Ahaan Agrawal, Ayush Baral

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Rock Canyon High School, Highlands Ranch, Colorado
Students: Sumanth Kaja, Arnav Kandukuri, Ishan Kalluri, Danush Murugesan

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Saint Paul Preparatory Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Students: Bill Cho, Sarah Kwon, Seah Jin, Seungmin Oh, Victoria Hwang

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San Marino High School, San Marino, California
Students: David Michael Dean, Kaihann Sayed Hashimi, Joonhee Kim

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Saratoga High School, Saratoga, California
Students: Richard Chen, Anthony Luo, Sanyukta Ravishankar, Tanvee Tirthapura, Jet Tsang

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Seido Mikawadai High School, Nagasaki, Japan
Students: Onishi Kohei, Tanaka Syugo, Matsuo Yuto, Murakami Keitaro

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Seoul International School, Seongnam-si, Republic of Korea
Students: Anabelle YD Lee, Jacob Siyun Sung, Joseph Hahmmin Kang

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Shanghai American School Puxi, Shanghai, China
Students: Yiming Chen, King Him Chung, Peng (Oscar) Su, Koki Kishida, Christian Wong

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Shanghai Pinghe School, Shanghai, China
Students: Zhanbo Xie, Yizhang Chen, Zhilin Yang

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Solon High School, Solon, Ohio
Students: Falak Dahiya, Minghao Gu, Ria Isayas, Sophia Shong, William Stella

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Speech & Debate India, Mumbai, India
Students: Arnav Agrawal, Aadith Kacholia, Videep Agarwal

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Summit Christian Academy, Yorktown, Virginia
Students: Oliver Clydesdale, Mercy Cooper, Daniel Gibson, Mason Kepka, Nathaniel Pettus, Natalee Strand

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Syosset High School, Syosset, New York
Students: Jiayi Meng, Leon Zhao, Norman Li,Anabella Pisapia De Marco

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TH School, Hanoi, Vietnam
Students: Lai Uyen Nhu, Nguyen Bao Anh, Tran Thanh Chi, Nguyen Khoa Dien, Le Khanh Vy

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Troy High School, Troy, Michigan
Students: Shreyan Maini, Patricia Mao, Nathan Wang

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Upper St. Clair High School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Students: Mana Barimani, Aaron Jiang, Maria Alfredson Themudo, Aryajeet Tatipamula, Michaela Pacella

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Washington High School, Fremont, California
Students: Aditya Kaul, Aidan Fernandes, Vyomesh Vijay, Yashas Patil

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Westwood High School, Austin, Texas (Team 1)
Students: Chaaya Annamreddy, Sristi Guduru, Saanvi Mittal, Ian Xu

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Westwood High School, Austin, Texas (Team 2)
Students: Jadyn Kennedy, Max Lim, Apple Ma, Brianna Rodriguez

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Westwood High School, Austin, Texas (Team 3)
Students: Ayushi Thakur, Tam Bao Tran, Diya Venkataragavan

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Woodberry Forest School, Woodberry Forest, Virginia
Students: Silas Tai, Zihong Chen, Bryan Li

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Advancing teams will receive an e-mail with additional information. 
 
The IPPF bracket includes the pairings for the written rounds of the competition and notes the side (affirmative or negative) assigned to each team.
 
The “Top 64” teams will now compete in a single-elimination, written debate tournament. Teams will continue to debate the 2025-26 IPPF topic on the education crisis. Essays will be volleyed back and forth via e-mail, and judges will select the advancing teams. This format continues until the final eight teams emerge. Those teams earn an opportunity to compete in the oral debate finals in New York City for the $10,000 grand prize!
 
For those teams that did not advance, your evaluation forms and certificates of participation will be mailed to you in the coming weeks. 
 
On behalf of the Brewer Foundation and NYU, thank you to every team and student who submitted an essay!

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