Spinnaker held its premiere speech contests tonight – Evaluation and International Prepared Speech contests.

In the Evaluation contest, an invited “test” speaker delivered a powerful speech about how emails can pollute the world.

The evaluators gave the speaker Graham lots of useful tips and recommendations including the use of statistics, stage presence, hand gestures and “soft sighs”.

Evaluation speech contestants: Megan, Gary, Dave

Results:

1st – Megan Kloppenburg
2nd – Gary Nicholson

International speech contestants: Angela, Dave, Gary, Megan, Katina

Angela talked about her big bad thing, Dave talked about the hole in his floor which needed to be repaired during home renovations and compared it to climate change action needed, Gary talked about joining the dots in life, Megan spoke about meditation experiences and suppressed trauma, and finally Katina implored us to think positively and to rip up our to-do lists.

Results:

1st – Angela Randell
2nd – Megan Kloppenburg
3rd – Gary Nicholson