361st Meeting: WOW FILCOM!

Filcom International TMC
361st Meeting Summary
31 August 2019
WOW FILCOM! 

Sergeant-At-Arms Vijji jumpstarted Filcom's 361st meeting by sharing the club mission and meeting protocol. Right after, President Joseph formally opened the meeting and welcomed our valued guests. He then gave the floor to Arjay as the Toastmaster of the Day, who introduced the theme "WOW Filcom" using his unique and creative approach - deviating from the normal format of every Toastmasters Meeting, Arjay introduced his anchor hosts who assisted him in getting real-time feedback from the audience, Sahar and Joseph. He also introduced the role players for the night: Jessie as Timer, Michelle as Ah-Counter, and Raffy as Grammarian.

SPEAKATHON 

Seven brave Filcomites took up the challenge to deliver their respective speech projects in an attempt to “WOW” the audience.

• Stella in her Ice-breaker Speech "Call Me Names", did not only introduced herself in the club but enthralled everyone with her delivery, poise, and eloquence.
• Asma, on her inspiring delivery of "The Virtue of Kindness", left the audience in awe of how a simple act of kindness can make a great impact and change in this world.
• Satish with his speech "Serendipity", painted a vivid picture of how delightful it is to fall in love and come across special and great things unexpectedly.
• Kushagra amused and entertained the audience with his piece "So, what do you want to be?" Concluding with a heart-warming message, to be whatever you want to become.
• ”Happy Disaster Day" was Aymans's entry in his High-Performance Leadership 1 Project. He spoke about the pieces of lesson he has learned in his years of experience.
• Cj’s "Where Leaders Are Made" is his entry for his High-Performance Leadership 1 Project where he shared his plan and vision as the VP for Public Relations of the club for the year 2019 - 2020.
• Lastly, Leo on his speech “We Did It!”, reenacted the accepting of an award and acknowledging the presenting organization. He expressed his gratitude to everyone who supported him in his term as the club president last Toastmaster Year.

EVALUATION 

Guest Toastmaster S.K. Naidu took charge in the Evaluation segment. He introduced and called the evaluators Gino, Deepti, Diana, Joseph, Nadim, Mamta, and Damitha. The evaluators delivered their respective evaluation on their assigned speeches. Thereafter, the role players delivered their reports, and Guest Toastmaster S.K. Naidu rendered his thorough General Evaluation.

PREPARED SPEECH WINNERS:

🏆1st Place – Kushagra
🏆2nd Place – Stella
🏆3rd Place – CJ & Satish

EVALUATION WINNERS:

🏆1st Place Evaluator – Diana
🏆2nd Place Evaluator – Nadim
🏆3rd Place Evaluator – Damitha