May 12, 2014 Club Meeting

The following is a summary of the minutes from our May 12th meeting.

Meeting Location:   San Mateo City Hall, San Mateo, CA     6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.

Attendees:

Present at the meeting were: Samya Boxberger Oberoi, Brenda Chung, Eric Jones, Randy Lee, Glenn Low, Lara Miller, Aditi Mishra, Suzanne Mulcahy, David Nazzaro, Martin Quan, , and Xin Tang.  There were no guests.

Martin was the Toastmaster; David was the General Evaluator; Brenda was the Timer, Glenn was the Grammarian, and Eric was the Ah Counter.

Speaker #1:  Lara – “How to Create an Effective Power Point”

Advanced Manuel #1:    “Speaking to Inform”.

Lara gave an excellent presentation about how to create an effective power point presentation.  She went over the specific details that we need to know to use the power point and how we can present better slides.  Lara showed us ways to present slides using graphs and other methods to make a better presentation.  She gave us the following key points:

1. ·        Use bullet points to present your message.
2. ·        Illustrate with visuals.
3. ·        Avoid paragraphs.
4. ·        Use “SMART” graphs like charts and graphs.
5. ·        Use photo editing.
6. ·        Use animation to reveal key points.
7. ·        Make text large and use color.
8. ·        Distribute hand outs.

Evaluation:  Aditi gave Lara’s speech evaluation.  The speech was very informative and her voice was very commanding.  Lara started with a question that got our attention immediately.  She presented a very relevant topic and gave good examples for us to take away and use. 

Lara was clear and concise, used no “fluff”, and got right to the point. 

Speaker #2:  Suzanne :  Project #9, “Persuade with Power” – “Bullying Behavior Among Our Youth - #3”

Suzanne gave the third speech in the series on bullying behavior and got into the ways of preventing bullying behavior.  She used the power point that we had learned in our club meeting presentations. 

Suzanne began with two approaches to preventing bullying behavior, and then went into teaching the alternative behaviors that are inconsistent with becoming a bully.  She described the four aspects of the human being and went into the primary aspect, the spiritual aspect, which she called the heart.  She ended the speech with a powerful example of how children can use their hearts.

Evaluation:  Samya gave Suzanne’s speech evaluation.  Samya said that Suzanne really knew the subject well and spoke from the heart.  She showed examples where she gave the life skills necessary to counteract this behavior. 

Samya gave the suggestion to bring back the powerful statistics of how much bullying behavior is occurring now in the high schools.  This would bring people back to the urgency of the problem in schools.      

The theme of the meeting was: “Spring” and the Word of the Day was “Blossom”.   Randy was the Table Topics Master.  

Samya closed the meeting. 

Meeting was adjourned at 7:15