Wyndham Youth Public Speaking Competition 2006

For a two week period during May of this year the second Annual Wyndham Youth Public Speaking Competition was held, again as a joint project with the Apex Club of Hoppers Crossing.

This year some twenty seven students from eleven local colleges took part and the standard of the competitors, and particularly in the Final on May 25^th, was outstanding.

In the 2005 event, we had 19 students from 8 local colleges take part and the added numbers this year show increasing confidence by the Colleges in this Competition which is rapidly growing in stature in the Wyndham School communities.

We are confident, after receiving positive feedback from school since the competition, that each school currently involved will continue to warmly embrace the concept and will enthusiastically encourage their students to enter in coming years.

We achieved around 80% capacity audience for the Final represented by Apexians , Rotarians , Rotaractors, friends , parents and teaching staff, joining local councillors, school Principals, and both Apex and Rotary dignitaries at Victoria University Auditorium for a marvellous evening of entertainment provided by these exceptional young students.

This project is now firmly entrenched as a prestigious event in Wyndham and is eagerly anticipated by our colleges who see it as a means of further developing the Public Speaking skills of senior Secondary age students who have shown great enthusiasm, and have competed strongly again this year for the title of the best young Public speaker in Wyndham.

The Competition has also served to build a positive profile of both service clubs in Hoppers Crossing and we have also gained a co-operative working relationship as a joint committee which plans and implements the competition each year.

This year the Competition was won by Adalaeta Salkovic from Werribee Islamic college who displayed great improvement and added maturity from her previous attempt in 2005 . Runner up was Mustafa Sheik, also from this College and Ben Watson from Heathdale Christian College was third in the Competition.

The Impromptu section, which featured a variety of challenging topics for which each student was required to speak "off the cuff" for  a period of two minutes, was won by Craig Hodgson , school Captain  of Westbourne Grammar

We look forward to continued club support for this now intrinsic project in the clubs annual calendar.

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