One participant per school is eligible to enter the PSC 2026.

Participants must be students from an ESU member school. AGES 16-20. If not sure, write to esu@esu.cl.

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:

“The light of a candle / is transferred to another candle/ – spring twilight”
   (from the haiku “Lighting One Candle” by Yosa Buson)

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 submission and registration deadline is 13 March 2026, for judges to begin their viewing. Round 1 judging will be virtual.

20 March: Semifinalists will be announced, plan to attend final heats in person (venue to be announced)

26-27 March. Workshops + Semifinal & Final Heats. Hosted by Universidad Andrés Bello, at Casona de Las Condes.

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:

“The power to question is the basis of all human progress”
                                   (Indira Gandhi)

IPSC week in London  13-18 July 2026