Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Team
Clarity | Insight | Connection
2026 Meetings
Wednesdays, 5:30-6:30pm
September 2-November 4
All WSU undergraduates are welcome to participate, whether or not you want to compete.
Please email the coach to join.
Join or inquire here
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.
Rocky Mountain Regional competition: Saturday, November 7, 2026
* If the team advances, National Competition: March 2027
(Spoiler: The WSU team did great!)
