What is an Ethics Bowl?An Ethics Bowl is both a collaborative and competitive event, where teams of students analyze and discuss ethical dilemmas. They imagine, criticize, and compare bold strategies, and may even amend their original positions when faced with convincing arguments. Students have opportunities to pose and respond to probing questions, which results in a deepening awareness of the stakes and principles that animate the discussion.
Teams from all schools are eligible to participate, and each school team comprises five students from Grades 9 to 12. In advance of the Ethics Bowl, schools receive cases that focus on current ethical issues—social, political, economic, scientific, cultural, or beyond. Students research and develop the cases, and arrive at the Ethics Bowl prepared to present their ideas and to listen to other perspectives. All teams participate in a round-robin style competition. In each round, two teams discuss two cases, and winning teams proceed to the semi-final and final competitions.
Students are evaluated on the following skills:
Each year, Immaculata students are required to perform a minimum of 30 hours of general community service. Community service is a priority for Immaculata and therefore we ask our students to complete more hours than in the public school system. Completing community service hours allows students to see how they can make a difference and broadens their range of experiences. The service work can be in the school, church, our feeder schools, or in the general community. Service hours are monitored by homeroom teachers to ensure the goal is met.
As a school community, we partake in school-wide projects to serve the less fortunate. We regularly collect for and participate in the St. Vincent de Paul Society, with food and toiletry drives as well as a Christmas toy drive. Our students work for social justice through the Social Justice Team and the Legacy Project for Inn from the Cold. The Linus Project is new for us this year - knitting, crocheting, and sewing blankets for gifts to the children in our community experiencing some kind of trauma.
On Weds March 16, 2022 the Mission Team enjoyed a wonderful day of service at St. Charles Garnier! What were we doing? We constructed a path through the newly built outdoor stations of the cross there. Our missionaries were hard workers hauling bricks, laying bricks, shovelling rock, power washing, leveling….there to SERVE! After 8:30am morning mass together, we got to work and enjoyed “celebrity” drop ins throughout our day from Catholic VIPs like Bishop Gregory, Father Wayne, Father Cerlouie, and Father Gabriel. How blessed we will be to have an outdoor stations like this within walking distance from our school. A wonderful day all around putting FAITH into ACTION the Mustang way.
Look for the mission team out in the community again soon as we prepare for our MISSION WEEK April 25-29, 2022. We will be learning outside of the walls of classrooms that week while we partner again with Mamas for Mamas as well as some other organizations who serve youth homelessness. Serving local poverty. We’re doing it!
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Life Garden 2023 Team From the Ground Up Team