Glimpses of Crescendo’25
A warm welcome and good afternoon fellow toast masters
Welcome to vTalk meeting number #461
<Intro>
How are you all doing ,
How was your vacations. Everyone was taking their turns to enjoy this summer
Where did you go ?
<Let the audience respond>
Well my vacation was planned at cradle of indian banking.
A place known for its historical significance – for the development of several prominent banks – Canara Bank, Syndicate Bank, Corporation Bank, Vijaya Bank , Karnataka Bank particularly Dakshina Kannada District.
Are you able to figure out my place of vacation?
<Let the audience respond. Allow one or 2 points to stem from that discussion if required to make it lively and engaging >
Its Mangalore
Apart form the banks Mangalore is also known for its beaches, sea foods, wide roads , tropical climate, good culture and the Tulu language
But my plan to Manglore was for a different cause.
CRESCENDO’25 – The word crescendo literally means “Peak of loudness, Gradual increase to Loudness”
The more striking info for us as Toast masters of district 121 is – CRESCENDO is the annual conference of district 121
<First segment>
Before we run through the crescendo events, let me brief the events of every toast master meeting for the benefit of guests and new members
Every toast master meeting has 3 diff sections
No:1 The prepared speeches (Loaded with Powerful speeches)
No:2 TTM (Loaded with Spontaneous speeches)
No:3 Evaluation (Loaded with Constructive feedbacks)
For evaluation we have our own toast master from vTalk today
<GE introduction goes here>
<GE comes on stage introduces his role * TAG team, TAG team details their roles>
Thank You GE and TAG team players for giving crystal clear view of your roles
Now lets push the backdrop to Crescendo events for a while
What usually happens at Annual Conference ?
<Let audience respond>
We have special , incredible, insightful Key note speech, activities where we learn through gamification.
We felicitate, celebrate the achievers for their outstanding work through out the year.
We have three contests – Evaluation , TT, and ISC – international speech contest happening
So if you look at our District 121. It comprises of 10 divisions
Divisions A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J
We are from Division ?
<Let audience respond, if the response was not confident – Make it loud that vTalk belongs to Division E)
There are 4 areas at every division , and we are from Area 3
An area can comprise of n number of clubs
When a speech contest is conducted at club level, we get our winners to compete with winners of every other club and they advance to Area level contest
Winners of Every Area compete at Division level and the Topper of every division will make their pride way to the stage of District 121.
District 121 stage – is a big stage where winner of every division – altogether 10 winners climb the stage to get their speech heard.
It was Toast master Radha BK from Our Area 3, Division E – E3
There are 4 areas in division E.
The winners of every area E1,E2,E3,E4 competed at Division level contest and again RADHA BK won out of the 4 contestants and she represented DIVISION E
Similarly there will be winners of every division – totally 10 contestants competeing at the district 121 conference – CRESCENDO
Winners of the district-level International Speech Contest advance to the quarterfinal stage,
Winners of the quarterfinal stage advance to the semifinals.
Winners of the semifinals are then invited to the World Championship of Public Speaking.
Every toast master meeting is a chance for a speaker to hone their skills and rise up to the occasion of World championship.
and today we have a speaker
<Speaker introduction goes here>
Speaker is evaluated by a toast master <Evaluator introduction goes here>
I welcome on stage <Name of Evaluator 1> to read out the objectives of the speech
<Evaluator reads the objectives>
Thank You <Name of Evaluator 1>
I welcome on stage our first speaker
< Name of Speaker 1> <Topic> <Topic>< Name of Speaker 1>
<Speaker 1 delivers the speech>
<Few thoughts on the speakers view and words of appreciation goes here>
<Second segment>
Now tell me , Have you ever watched 10 different movies by same same title?
<This invigorates the audience and create some space for them to interact>
The next engaging contest at CRESCENDO is TABLE TOPICS CONTEST.
Every toast master meeting offers unique question to every Table topics speaker
But at Crescendo, its one and only Question or Table topic.
All 10 winners of the division contest has to think on their feet and speak their heart and mind about that one and only table topic
That’s such an enriching experience to watch 10 different movies of same title
back to back on same stage but by different speakers.
You have to wait for just 12 months to wintness that table topic and for today.
We have our Table topic master <TTM intro goes here >
<Table topic master elucidates the role and conducts Table topics>
Thank you Table topics master <name> for those insightful questions
<Third segment>
Its time for the third segment.
Have you ever heard 10 diff reviews, constructive reviews of a movie after watching it 😊
That sounds dramatic for movies because we need the review before watching the movie as it helps in saving our precious time.
Wheres the reviews post speeches help us to sport our blindspots and improve them.
10 such Evaluations happen for the same speech at the crescendo as it is a contest.
Our context today is yet another engaging meeting.
Here comes our GE to evaluate our meeting right from the start.
I welcome back the General Evaluator to the dais to evaluate the entire meeting.
** General Evaluator and TAG team reports their observation, shares constructive feedback and areas of improvement **
Thank you General Evaluator
<Conclusion>
Well now you would have got the glimpse of Cresendo.
I just helped you with the 3 contests conducted on the stages of Crescendo.
There is lot more engaging, interesting and enriching happening on its stages.
Do make sure to attend these events and rejuvenate
With that I hand over to our president for closing remarks