Jessica Strachan changed her mind halfway through responding to a judge’s question in the final case, but her underdog team from Humberside Collegiate Institute still won the argument and the national championship at last month’s virtual Ethics Bowl. In fact, her teammate Abi Franceschetti credits the four-member team’s malleability as a key reason they emerged victorious in the competition that rewards collaboration and collegiality. The Grade 12 students at the school in Toronto’s High Park neighbourhood were able “to grow and change our opinions, but further build onto what we were proposing and what the other team was proposing,” she explained in a recent video interview.