{"id":10385,"date":"2023-03-24T02:42:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T02:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/?p=10385"},"modified":"2023-03-24T02:48:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T02:48:32","slug":"nma-organises-an-inter-squadron-debate-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/?p=10385","title":{"rendered":"NMA Organises an inter squadron debate competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"10385\" class=\"elementor elementor-10385\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7d9ae0f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7d9ae0f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2f6cc7e\" data-id=\"2f6cc7e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2fe17b0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2fe17b0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\"><p>The Inter Squadron Debate Competition Final organized by the Toastmasters club of Naval and Maritime Academy was held on 22<sup>nd<\/sup> \u00a0March 2023 at the Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda Auditorium. Talents of the midshipmen of 36<sup>th<\/sup> \u00a0intake KDU and 64th intake were highlighted.<\/p><p>The Commandant Naval and Maritime Academy Commodore Buddhika Liyanagamage graced the occasion as the Chief Guest. The competition was witnessed by an audience comprised of Senior Officers, Officers, Officer Under Trainees, Senior and Junior Sailors from Naval and Maritime Academy.<\/p><p>Beauchamp Squadron became the Champions defeating the Bank Squadron at the final round of the debate. Midshipman KMNSM Bandara was adjudged the best speaker at the finals.<\/p><p>Addressing the audience, the Chief Guest Commandant Naval and Maritime Academy Commodore Buddhika Liyanagamage congratulated the winners and all the participants in the finals. He also highlighted the importance of improving the ability of public speaking and debating as the servicemen. Further he put forward some valuable points on \u201cthe technology and the man behind the weapon\u201d which was the topic in the final debate. Debate was concluded with the awarding ceremony.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e88289d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e88289d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3cfc847\" data-id=\"3cfc847\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e9b7777 elementor-widget elementor-widget-gallery\" data-id=\"e9b7777\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;gap&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:4,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;aspect_ratio&quot;:&quot;4:3&quot;,&quot;lazyload&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;gallery_layout&quot;:&quot;grid&quot;,&quot;columns&quot;:4,&quot;columns_tablet&quot;:2,&quot;columns_mobile&quot;:1,&quot;gap_tablet&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:10,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;gap_mobile&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:10,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;link_to&quot;:&quot;file&quot;,&quot;overlay_background&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;content_hover_animation&quot;:&quot;fade-in&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"gallery.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery__container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inter Squadron Debate Competition Final organized by the Toastmasters club of Naval and Maritime Academy was held on 22nd \u00a0March 2023 at the Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda Auditorium. Talents of the midshipmen of 36th \u00a0intake KDU and 64th intake were highlighted. The Commandant Naval and Maritime Academy Commodore Buddhika Liyanagamage graced the occasion as the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/?p=10385\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NMA Organises an inter squadron debate competition<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes"},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}