One participant per school is eligible to enter the PSC 2025.

• Participants must be students from an ESU member school. AGES 16-20
• Participants must be passport holders or permanent residents of Chile.
• This year’s theme for ESU Chile and all other country’s national competition is:
  • “Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.”
                                                         (Mahatma Gandhi)
• All participants will be required to deliver a prepared, original 5-minute speech on the theme on video, which is sent to esu@esu.cl for judges to view. Video must be received by 14 March for judges to begin their viewing. Round 1 judging will be virtual.
• 24 March the Semifinalists will be announced, plan to attend final heats in person (venue to be announced)
• 03 and 04 April Semifinal & Final Heats (to be held at Campus Oriente, PUC)
• Note, this year’s PSC and IPSC National Competition will include impromptu speeches.
• IPSC theme for ESU Chile winner to prepare a new speech for the IPSC competition:
  • “We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
                                       (William Shakespeare)

    IPSC week in London 12-17 May 2025