Friday, October 30, 2020

388th Meeting: A Toastmaster Wears Many Hats




 

Filcom International TMC
Meeting Summary
24th October 2020
A Toastmaster Wears Many Hats
Word of the Day: Mummery
Filcom's 388th was held on the 24th of October via Zoom.
The meeting began with the Sergeant-At-Arms Fouad reading out the club mission and meeting protocol. Right after, President Diana May formally opened the meeting, and warmly greeted the guests. Then the virtual floor was handed over to the Toastmaster of the Day, Hieu Huu Huynh, DTM who rocked the virtual stage with his unique way to describe various roles, members play in #Toastmasters journey as well as in our common life. He also changed different hats to justify and explain each role.
He introduced the role players for the night: TM Dale Amazed as the Timer, and TM Rinku Saha Mallik as both the Ah-Counter and Grammarian.
💼PREPARED SPEECHES
3 Filcomites took over the reins of this segment.
1. Grace Moran Billington, DTM beautifully portrayed a vivid picture of her personal life where she wears different hats to play different roles through her speech – “Toastmasters wear many hats”.
2. Deepti Potnis shared her experience on how various cultural background makes us different and unique being a “Bridge walker”.
3. Michelle Macaraig explained the purpose of Leadership and how we all should be a “Mindful Leader”.
💼TABLE TOPICS
Table Topics are presented by Diana May, who played the role of a brand ambassador:
1. Guest Ray - Have a Break, Have a KitKat.
2. Guest Rose - McDonald's, I'm lovin' it.
3. Mohammed Farooq, DTM - Ford, Go Further
4. Guest Luis - Levi's, Quality never goes out of style
5. Hamad - Coca-Cola, Open Happiness.
6. Dhruv - Nike, Just Do It.
💼EVALUATION
Mohammed Farooq, DTM was the General evaluator and introduced TM Shyam Sundar, Philip Cherian and Nadim Bitar, respectively , who provided their evaluations on their assigned speeches. Joseph Amande, DTM evaluated all Table topic speeches. Thereafter, the role players rendered their reports.
🏆Best Speaker– Grace Moran Billington, DTM
🏆Best Table Topics Speaker– Guest Luis & Guest Ray
🏆Best Evaluator - Shyam Sundar and Philip Cherian
🏆Best Segment Host – Diana May

Monday, October 19, 2020

Filcom & RCS Debaters: A Tale of Two

 



Filcom International TMC
Filcom International club and RCS Debater joint meeting
Meeting Summary
10th October 2020
A Tale of Two
Word of the Day: Riveting
Filcom's 387th was held on 10th of October via Zoom.
The meeting began with the Sergeant-At-Arms Michelle Macaraig reading out the club mission and meeting protocol. Right after, Presidents Diana May Tangente and Fouad Al Fares, formally opened the meeting and warmly greeted the guests. Then the floor was handed over to the Toastmaster of the Day, Swetha Raghuraman, who took us through an interactive session with "A Tale of Two". Swetha introduced the role players for the night: Hieu Hynh, DTM as the Timer, and Sajath Shahnawas as the Grammarian.
💼PREPARED SPEECHES
Two prepared speech Speakers took over the reins of this segment.
1. CJ Rojas took us through a transformative journey of "Why"in his leadership development.
2. Krishanthan Soundarrajan recited his leadership development journey and assured that "Leaders are made, not born".
💼DEBATE SESSION
Leo Ortega, DTM moderated the debate session on the topic "Resolved that, Companies should be required to hire 50% male 50% female employees". The affirmative speakers were: Mustafa Syed and Nadim Bitar and the negative speakers were: Pooja Bhat and Rinku Saha.
💼TABLE TOPICS SESSION
Bidya Mohanty served as the Table topic Master and the following speakers spoke on the given topics:
1. Joseph Amande, DTM vs. Eno Budo: Has Covid made you Fit or Fat?
2. Alfonso and Ram: Advent of technology in our life is a boon or bane.
💼EVALUATION
Sunny Iype, was the chief judge for the debate session and introduced the evaluators: Nirmala Raghuraman, DTM and Fouad Al Fares the affirmative and negative team evaluators respectively, who provided their evaluations. The winning debate team and best debater was announced.
District 116 CGD, DTM Rajesh VC was the General Evaluator and introduced and called the speech evaluators, Shyam Sundar and Philip Cherian who gave their evaluations on their assigned speeches. The role players also provided their reports
🏆 Best Speaker– TM CJ Rojas
🏆 Best TT Speaker –DTM Josepph Amande
🏆 Best Evaluator –TM Shyam Sundar
🏆 Best Debate Evaluator –DTM Nirmala Raghuraman
🏆 Best Debater –TM Pooja Bhat
🏆 Best Debate Team –Affirmative Team
🏆 Best Segment Host – TM Swetha Raghuraman