Chamber Speakers Circle
September 14, 2015
Attendees: Annamarie,
David N., Lara, Marina, Saurabh, Lefterris, Bacher and Samya and Eric and Aditi
Guests: Gustavo
Word of the day: Craft
Saurabh was the Toastmaster, Annamarie was the General Evaluator, Gustavo was the Vote
Counter, Eric was the Timer, Lefteris was the Grammarian and Lara was
the Ah Counter.
Speaker #1: Marina
Speech: Show
and Tell Project #1 Ice Breaker
Samya introduced the speech’s
objectives. Marina started off by
discussing her high standards. Marina
spoke about being a writer and how writing is more difficult for writers. Marina spoke of the speech criteria, which was
similar to a personal essay, how she approached writing this speech and how she
came up with the format “Show & Tell”, since it is the way we started off
in preschool.
Marina showed the audience
the “Family Fun” magazine because it shows her “mom” side. She spoke on writing a story about a trapeze
school in Oakland and how she took her family with her to have this experience
to write about. There was a photographer
with her and she had to take notes on the whole experience and also be a mom
and have the experience. Marina noted the photographer, at one point,
confiscated her notebook in order to photograph Marina as a participant. She concluded with “what looks easy, isn’t
always easy”.
Speaker #2: Bacher
Speech: Untitled
Project #1 Ice Breaker
David introduced the speech’s
objectives. Bacher spoke about his
career and the job that had the most impact in his life. Bacher went to school for philosophy and
genetics. He dropped out of Berkeley
right before graduating in order to pursue religion for a few years. He became interested in computers, then
started a job as a systems administrator for Visa.
Bacher noted how he delved into systems
administration, working 15 hour-days, 6 days per week. He spoke about the data center that was
being set up in Japan and how he would go to Japan to work 48 hours in the
center, without leaving each trip and he did this for 3 trips.
Bacher spoke about his coworker who went
with him and had a heart attack during one of the trips. He decided to resign to stop being a
workaholic, because it was having a negative impact on his personal life. Bacher said his experience at Visa had the
most impact because it taught him such an important life lesson.
Table Topics: Aditi
led Table Topics with the “Table Talk” card deck. Eric, Annamarie, David N., Lara and Gustavo
participated.
Saurabh called on his team of evaluators:
Evaluator #1: Samya
evaluated Marina’s speech.
Samya noted
Marina’s confidence and comfort with the audience. She noted that we got to know Marina as a
writer. Samya noted Marina showed us the
magazine she wrote for as well as other topics. She noted Marina spoke clearly and that Marina had a good opening and
good flow. Samya expressed that Marina
looked confident and comfortable when she was speaking. Marina didn’t use notes. She suggested that Marina use her manual on her next speeches, since it is a useful tool for
evaluating and providing project guidelines.
Evaluator #2: David
evaluated Bacher’s speech.
David spoke
about Bacher’s gestures, how he started in one pose but opened up as he
spoke. He said Bacher didn’t use the
notes he carried. David thought that the
term “workaholic” summed up his speech and experience. He would have loved to hear more about how
others could deal with similar challenges.
David thought it was an intelligent and relatable speech.
The meeting
ended at 7:12.
Local Only Speech Contest and Open House 9/21/2015
Toastmaster: Samya
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Humorous Speech Contest
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Evaluation Contest
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ROLE
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NAME
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ROLE
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NAME
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Contestant
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Annamarie
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Contestant
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Aditi
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Contestant
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Lefteris
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Contestant
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Bacher
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Contestant
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Sergio
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Contestant
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Saurabh
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Judge
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Aditi
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Test Speaker
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Eric,
project #4
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Judge
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Lara
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Judge
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Annamarie
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Judge
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Judge
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David
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Timer
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Judge
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Timer
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