Every year each Toastmaster Club holds four speech contests, two in the Spring and two in the Fall. On February 21, 2012, the Park City Toastmasters Club held an international speech contest. The winner of this contest goes on to the Area contest, the Area winner goes on to Division, from Division to District, from District to Regionals, from Regionals to International. If you win the international speech contest there is a good chance you could have an instant new career in public speaking.
There were four contestants and one ‘warm up’ speaker (for the judges). Bill Kahn volunteered to be the ‘warm up’ speaker and gave a great speech on how weight training is the new ‘fountain of youth’. The other contestants were Julio Garreaud, John Concannon, David Wintzer, and Stacy Dymalski.
Julio came in 3rd place, David in 2nd, and Stacy took 1st place. Stacy will go on to compete at the Area contest on Saturday, March 24th, at the Utah Olympic Park. Three other clubs are in our Area so she could face three other competitors. The Table Topics (spontaneous speaking) contest will also be held on March 24th.
