Ethics Bowl
The UT Tyler 2025-26 Regional High School Ethics Bowl will take place on Saturday, January 31, 2026 at the Soules College of Business.
Registration Information
NHSEB registration fees may be waived for our regional event. Please reach out to the NHSEB staff at ethicsbowl@unc.edu to request a fee waiver.
Schools are allowed to register up to two teams. However, the second team will be an alternate until we determine how many teams register. You may register three to seven students per team with three to five students participating each round. Teams with more than five members can have up to two alternates to use in the next round.
About the Bowl
The annual UT Tyler Ethics Bowl offers the opportunity for high school students from all over Texas to develop their critical thinking skills and compete against their peers in mock moral and ethical dilemmas. The purpose of the Bowl is to prepare students to navigate complex situations in their lives and careers in a way that is collaborative and respectful. The winning team goes on to compete in the National High School Ethics Bowl Central Divisional Playoffs for a chance to progress to the National Playoffs.
For more information about how the National High School Ethics Bowl works and what to expect when participating in the competition, visit their website. To learn more about the UT Tyler Ethics Bowl or to register your high school team for next year's Bowl, contact our Coordinator.
Last Year's Bowl
The 2025 winner of the UT Tyler Regional Ethics Bowl was Westwood High School! Westwood went on to win the wild card bid, advancing to the Nationals in April where they competed admirably and won the Social Media Award.
Congratulations and thank you to ALL the teams that competed last year. We look forward to seeing you in 2026!
KETK - UT Tyler hosts 2025 High School Ethics Bowl
The UT Tyler Center for Ethics hosted the 2024-25 Regional High School Ethics Bowl as a way for students from across Texas to collaborate and compete by discussing real-life ethical problems.
Tyler Morning Telegraph - 13th annual Ethics Bowl teaches students critical thinking skills
[...] Westwood High School student Landon Iley, 17, previously participated in the Ethics Bowl held last year at Rice University. Iley, along with his classmates, prepared together for the competition. He learned about the Ethics Bowl from other friends in speech and debate class who described it as a more collaborative process.
The skills he learned in class came in handy when preparing for the competition. “I think it prepared us massively,” Iley said. “A lot of the strategies we did are almost mirrored directly from speech and debate. For instance, very much focusing on what the question is asking us and each individual word in the question, as well as the fact that, like taking alternative routes and courses of action, mirrors ideas such as counterpoint.”
The experience has taught Iley to think about things differently. “I think it’s forced us to look a lot more at what the root ethical reason for doing stuff,” Iley said. “A lot of the times we go about life where we’re just assuming, ‘hey, I know this is good, so let me go about that.’ But when you’re being forced to answer so many questions about where do we draw the line, how do we differentiate, it gives us the ideas of how do we weigh one issue against another and what are our true ethical beliefs when we’re forced to look at something.” [...]
