Category: Moments

Our Division G’s Online Contests Event, Humans Benefiting From Software

DG Speech Contest 2020

Thanks to 2020’s communication technology, we can shelter in place while connecting virtually. We successfully did so with Zoom’s software on Saturday, March 28, for the annual Division G Evaluation and International Speech Contests for 18 clubs in the North Bay. Noon’s attendees, at least those identifiable from their on-screen names, were Frank, Mark & …

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Michelle Dazzles at Toastmasters Speech Contest

Michelle Hardeman-Guptill at Toastmasters District 57 Area G25 and G31 Speech Contest

On Saturday, 7 March 2020, Areas G31 and G25 (Ours!) of District 57 of Toastmasters held its International Speech and Evaluation Contests. Our very own Noon Toastmaster Michelle Hardeman-Guptill competed in the evaluation contest and did very well. I’ll get back to that in a moment. These Area and District events are really great to …

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Have Fun with Word of the Day (from YouTube)

This is almost 5 Minutes long.  For a quicker snicker, go to minute 1:57.

MeL Shows How to Evaluate a Speech

This post is mostly just to show, more or less, what we can do with video at the meetings. This one shows our president, MeL Konrad, evaluating a speech by Brian Buckman. Sadly, I didn’t have the camera running when Brian gave his speech. But as I said, this is mostly just a test. It …

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