Northwest University will host the East Seattle Debates on Sept. 28 and 29 and feature two top Yale students.

The debate will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Health and Science Center. The Yale students will face debaters from Northwest University and two other institutions. Admission is free.

Students expected to attend the contest are from the University of Washington, Bothell and Simon Frazer University, B.C. Students will debate five rounds over the two day tournament. Topics are announced fifteen minutes before each round and concern current events. Participants must be able to debate both sides of any issue in the news. The public is welcome to watch any round of the tournament.

Before the tournament the students will take part in a debate hosted by the Microsoft Corporation in Redmond.

The students from Yale are Becca Steinberg and Nathaniel Rubin. Steinberg is a sophomore majoring in history with a focus in women’s history. Originally from St. Louis, Miss., Steinberg competes primarily in the American Parliamentary style of debate and has reached elimination rounds of many tournaments, including MIT, where she was a finalist this year. She also coaches a high school debate team in New Haven and is the vice chair of the ACLU chapter at Yale.

Rubin is a sophomore philosophy major. Originally from Anchorage, Ala., he is interested in philosophy of mind and its implications for simulated reality and the ethics of artificial intelligence. Along with numerous other achievements, Rubin has debated at the North American Debating Championships in 2012, was a semifinalist at the Hobart and William Smith College Intervarsity in 2011, and was the Alaska State Oratory Champion in 2010.