By Justin Weinberg. September 25, 2025 at 9:00 am2
The Bowl is a new documentary that follows a team of six girls and their teacher as they prepare for and compete in the National High School Ethics Bowl—and you may be able to arrange an interactive screening of it in your town.
Created by documentary filmmaker Eli Yetter-Bowman of Ethereal Films, The Bowl aims to capture the excitement and the value of young persons reasoning about complex moral issues.
The National High School Ethics Bowl organizes “competitive yet collaborative events in which students discuss real-life ethical issues.” Here’s how it works:
In each round of competition, teams take turns analyzing cases about complex ethical dilemmas and responding to questions and comments from the other team and from a panel of judges. An Ethics Bowl differs from a Speech and Debate competition in that students are not assigned opposing views; rather, they defend the position they actually hold or think is reasonable, provide each other with constructive criticism, and win by demonstrating that they have thought rigorously and systematically about the cases and engaged respectfully and supportively with all participants.
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