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Speech Olympiad VII
Speech
Olympiad VII
The
Gavel Club of University of Moratuwa, an affiliate of Toastmasters
International, commenced the 7th volume of its flagship event,
Speech Olympiad VII for the Imperial College Challenge Shield with its
preliminary rounds falling on the 2nd of July 2013 and the
Semi-finals on the 16th of July 2013. This event is one of the most
anticipated events in the University Calendar among the students from all three
faculties of the university.
The
contest, Speech Olympiad, is organized for no other purpose than for the
betterment of communication and presentation skills of the undergraduates of
University of Moratuwa. The event is reputed for its ability to uncover the
hidden and unseen skills of the undergraduates which will undoubtedly aid them
in their road to success. This is proven by humbly but proudly acknowledging
the fact that Speech Olympiad has produced winners and finalists in contests
such as the 'Inter-university Speech Contest' and 'All Island Best Speaker
Contest'.
Contestants
from all faculties and departments took part in the preliminary round of the
competition, out of whom the twelve best speakers were selected as
semifinalists, the best five out of them, ventured into the Grand-Finale, and
contended to be crowned as the best public speaker of the university of
Moratuwa, and for the Imperial College Challenge Shield for Speech Olympiad
VII!
The grand finale, which was held on the 1st of August
2013, in the Auditorium of the Department of Civil Engineering of University of
Moratuwa, was graced by the presence of the Deputy Vice Chancellor of
University of Moratuwa, Professor Rahula Attalage, who admired the efforts of
the students who were tirelessly involved in the process of organising such a
spectacle to such great effect. Mastering the ceremony and chairing the contest
was done by the Vice President-Education of the Gavel Club of University of Moratuwa,
Hasini Abeywickrama. The panel of judges comprising of Distinguished
Toastmasters was spearheaded by none other than the Club Coordinator,
Distinguished Toastmaster Zameen M. Saleem.
After thorough and difficult evaluation of the equally competitive
prepared speeches by the five finalists; in the order of Hasindu Siyambalape of
the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, Dinesh Kenady of the
Department of Transport and Logistics Management, Akshika Wijesundera of the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mohamed Yasir of the Department
of Civil Engineering and Rafidh Rifaadh of
the Faculty of Architecture, they were required to make an impromptu
speech of 1 to 2 ½ minutes on the topic “A thousand-mile journey begins with
one step”. And after the conclusion of both rounds, the panel of judges
announced their results. Mohamed Yasir was dubbed the 2nd Runner Up
of the contest and Hasindu Siyambalape came Runner Up. And despite the close
competition, the winner of Speech Olympiad VII, whose name will be etched into
the Imperial College Challenge Shield for Speech Olympiad was none other than
Rafidh Rifaadh. Akalanka Samarasena, one of the project co-chairs extended the
gratitude of the club to all parties who helped in numerous ways for such a
successful event.
Being the only entity operating within the
university with the sole intention of the enhancement of soft-skills of the
undergraduates- particularly their presentation, public-speaking and leadership
skills, Gavel Club of University of Moratuwa provides a sound platform on which
they can burnish their skills by following the internationally accepted
methodologies followed by Toastmasters International.
The flagship event of the Gavel Club of
University of Moratuwa, Speech Olympiad is a spectacle not to be missed
by anyone who would admire the clash of wits and words of brilliant young
folks, which enlightens the masses of the importance of public speaking, and
brings the unheard voices and opinion to the spotlight by providing them with a
stage!
Damith Senanayake
Project Co-Chairperson
26th July – 2013 – Daily
Mirror
174th Gavel Meeting
“A Tribute to the often unsung hero”
It was the high time to appreciate the hero of our world,
our father. According to a suggestion of the Immediate Past Vice President
Membership, Chandima Senevirathne the 174th Gavel meeting was
dedicated to voice our thoughts about our fathers.
The meeting was held at room 215 Sumanadasa building on 4th
of July 2013, 5.00 p.m onwards. The President, Pasan Pethiyagode called the
meeting to order. Everyone stood up for
the national anthem. Then the control of the meeting was handed over to the Toastmaster.
The Toastmaster was the author of the club, Samawath mallawarachchi. He then
presented the role players for the day. They were as follows.
Topic Master – Sajith Asanka
Timer- Hiran
Karunarathne
Ah counter – Kasun
Chanaka
Grammarian – Rukshan Maliq
Table Topic Evaluator I- Sandareka Wickramanayake
Table Topic Evaluator II- Hasini Abeywickrama
Prepared Speech Evaluator –
General Evaluator – Pasan Pethiyagode
Arousing the pride and lovable feelings about our own
fathers Samawath gave the round robin session topic as “What’s so special about
your father?” We got to know that each and every one of us admire our own
father a lot and above all we all become wordless when it comes to express our
thoughts about him. Then the table topic
session was started by Sajith introducing the topics for today’s session. The
gathering was able to listen to a bunch of emotional touching speeches. If our
fathers were in the audience, no doubts their eyes would fill with tears.
Control was returned to the Toastmaster. Then the stage was
opened to a prepared speaker. The smiling gravellier, Imesh LihiniKaduarachchi
delivered his interesting second speech.
After taking all the reports, the Gavel was returned to the President.
The meeting was adjourned by the President.
173rd Gavel Meetiing
The arena of orators – Speech Olympiad VII, was getting
ready to crown the best speaker of the university for the year 2013.
Enthusiastic speakers were also gathering their thoughts and preparing to
deliver their best speeches making the dream to hold the Speech Olympiad Shield,
a reality. With the intension of lending a hand to those speakers next Gavel
meeting was held as a workshop. The guest speaker was none other than our
beloved Immediate Past President, the finalist of All Island Best Speaker 2011 Niles
Perera.
The 173rd Gavel meeting was commenced by the
President Pasan Pethiyagode at 5.20 p.m at CSLR on 24th of June
2013. After the national anthem the President introduced the Toastmaster for
this special workshop. He was Rukshan Maliq. Then time was for the round robin
session. This was a great chance to gavelliers and especially for presented non
gavelliers to warm up themselves and have the experience of an impromtive
speech. Then the stage was open for a
grand show. The winner of the Speech Olympiad VI, Sirimevan Jayasundara was
called upon to the stage to entertain the gathering with his wining speech. The
room was echoed with applause given to Srimevan at the end of his speech. It was indeed a fabulous speech.
How to make such a wining speech was the next question came
to most of heads in the audience. Niles Perera the guest speaker was ready to
answer the question. He presented a fantastic presentation on “How to prepare a
wining speech?” It answered each and every question a novel speaker would have
in a detailed manner providing dozens of tips. He explained everything from
selecting a topic to delivering a speech. There is no doubt that it was a worth
attending meeting.
Control was returned to the President by the
Toastmaster. Another productive Gavel
meeting met the end of it at about 8.15.
172nd Gavel Meeting
After a successful orientation meeting Gavel members again
met on 20th of June 2013 for another Gavel meeting. It was the 172nd
Gavel meeting held at room no 215, Sumanadasa building.
Role players for this meeting were as bellow:
Toast Master – Isuru Pasan
Topic Master – Sirimevan Jayasundara
Timer- Hiran
Chathuranga
Ah counter – Imesh
Lihinikaduarchchi
Grammarian – Sachille Athapaththu
CL Evaluator- Sandareka Wickramanayake
Table Topic Evaluator I- Dinesh Kenady
Table Topic Evaluator II- Rukshan Maliq
General Evaluator – Charith Akalanka
The president, Pasan Pethiyagode commenced the meeting at
about 5.15 p.m. According to usual
proceedings everyone stood up for the national anthem. Then toastmaster, Isuru
was given the control of the meeting. After a wonderful round robin session he
called upon the Table Topic Master, Sirimevan. Sirimevan put an exciting array
of topics on the table which led to an entertaining and worth listening
speeches. Then time was for the evaluation reports. After taking those reports
control was returned back to the Toastmaster. Toastmaster then called the
president to conduct a special event. It was a game in order to enhance
negotiation skills. What players had to do was meet anther five players,
negotiate and divide 100/= so that he/she would be able to get the bigger
portion. The game was really interesting and funny. Everyone took part
actively. The person who got the highest amount was the winner. Then came the 2nd
part of the game. Two volunteers were invited to argue on a given topic. Two
new comers accepted the challenge. After the first round the debaters were
asked to argue on the opposite topic. After an enjoyable session Toastmaster
called the Grammarian’s report. Then General Evaluator presented his report.
The president concluded the meeting at about 7.45 p.m.
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