|
Youth Speaks Competition Details |
|
|
|
|
Written by Chrissy Moog
|
|
Friday, 20 June 2008 |
Overview: | Nature of the event Rotary Youth Speaks is a public speaking competition for young people. It has been successfully organized by Rotary for many years. The competition aims to offer young people: - An experience of speaking on a public platform as members of a team.
- An incentive to formulate ideas on significant subjects.
- The discipline in dealing with a topic in a limited time.
- The opportunity of learning and practising high standards of expression, presentation and appearance.
The impartial criticism and assessment of peformance by experienced adjudicators. Individual clubs should seek out suitable teams, from schools or other youth organizations. If it has a number of teams interested in taking part the in will need to arrange a local competition to find a winner to go forward to the District event. A team is composed of three young people. The Chairperson has TWO minutes to welcome the audience, to introduce the Speakerand to inform the audience of the relevance or expertise of the Speaker to the subject of his/her speech. The Speaker has SIX minutes for the address and a maximum of TWO minutes to consider and answer a question that will be posed by the Questioner. The Speaker is free to choose any subject approved by the organisers, with the exception of subjects directly concerning party politics, race or religion. Considerable discretion is urged in the choice of subjects which might be sensitive to members of the audience. The subject selected may however change from round to round. When the Speaker has finished, the Chairperson will invite the Questioner, who shall NOT be an adjudicator, to put one question only to the Speaker. The Speaker shall answer the question. After this the Chairperson will briefly introduce the Proposer of the vote of thanks. The Proposer of the vote of thanks has TWO minutes in which to propose the vote of thanks, remarking on both the content of the address and the response to the question asked by the questioner. The audience should then be invited to show its appreciation of the Speaker. After the vote of thanks and applause, the Chairperson will close the proceedings. The overall time for each team’s presentation will be approximately 15 minutes, including the question. | Stages in the Competition: | Club competition District Finals Regional Finals National / RIBI Finals | Age Group: | There are two competitions, the Intermediate Competition for students aged 11 to 13 years on 31st August 2008 and the Senior Competition for students aged 14 to 17 years on 31st August 2008. | Information for young people who want to join: | To enter a competition, contact your local Rotary Club. If you are unable to locate your club (you can see the list of all clubs in this district at the top of the page - click club info), then click email us by clicking ‘contact us’ found at the top of the page for details of your local club. You should make contact with the Rotary Club as soon as possible to check when the club competition will be. | Commitments / involvement of clubs: | There is no financial commitment on clubs that sponsor a team. Their responsibilities are to encourage the team and to ensure their attendance at the relevant competitions by arranging transportation etc. as necessary. | Timescales: | Clubs wishing to sponsor a team should be making contact with their local schools and youth organizations as early as possible in the Rotary year (if not before). 24 / 01 / 2009 All school / college competitions to be completed by clubs. District Competition Date and Location TBC. Regional Finals Date and Location TBC. National / RIBI Finals Date and Location TBC. | Implications for National Curriculum: | | Implications for the Every Child Matters Agenda: | Enjoy and Achieve Make a positive contribution |
|
|
Last Updated ( Friday, 20 June 2008 )
|
Youth Opportunities