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