Fellow Toastmasters,
It seems that there is some early St. Patrick’s Irish magic afoot: our March 17 Open House has been mysteriously turned into a club speech and evaluation contest!
While we investigate this trickery, we are left with no choice but to announce that TASC Toastmasters will host the 2010 Spring International Speech & Evaluation Contest on Wednesday, 17 March 2010, 1130-1300.
Contests are fun, entertaining and provide a friendly competitive environment, and are a significant piece of the Toastmasters educational program for several reasons, including:
• presents an opportunity for speakers to build contest experience;
• provides an informative demonstration to visitors;
• affords members who aren’t participating an opportunity to learn from competitors.
As the title indicates, there are actually two separate contests on the same day:
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International Speech Contest: contestants (having a minimum of six completed CC manual speech projects) present a 5-7 minute original speech on a topic of their choice.
Evaluation Contest: contestants listen to a speech presented by a model speaker, then leave the room and re-enter one at a time to present a 2-3 minute speech evaluation.
Judges score each speaker and a formal process selects the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners.
The winners of each contest will then represent the club at the 26 March 2010 Area I-3 contest. Area winners compete in the Division I contest; Division winners compete in the District 27 contest held at the annual spring conference. Evaluation contest winners go no further than District, but International Speech winners advance through District and are invited to compete at the Toastmasters International convention at, as the title implies, an international level!
What does this mean to you?
All members are encouraged to compete – this is an excellent learning opportunity in a safe environment.
Please show up and encourage your fellow members! This is also an exciting opportunity to invite coworkers, friends and family.
All other non-competing TI members are asked to support the contest in the following roles:
• Contest Coordinator (Filled: Joe Short)
• Contest Chairman (Filled: Wendy Daunheimer)
• Chief Judge (Filled: Carolyn Bledsoe)
• Sgt-at-Arms (Filled: Bonnie Kean)
• Model Speaker
• Timer #1(Filled: Lisa Beatty)
• Timer #2
• Vote Counter #1
• Vote Counter #2
• Speech Judges (Filled: Non-competing members)
If you’d like to compete or volunteer for a role, please contact Joe Short, VP Membership, TASC Toastmasters. Joe’s contact information is located here.
Good luck to all competitors!