03/06/2014

ORATION-2014 @ GOA

VIT Toastmasters participated in Toastmaster’s International Annual Conference – ORATION 2014 held in Goa, India from 16 may 2014 to 18 may 2014.
It was organized by YMCA TOASTMASTERS, Goa along with local Clubs.

We started with Semi Finals held in National Institute of Oceanography. We had two contest in this session “International speech contest” and “ Evaluation contest” and Contest Chairs Adolfo Castellino, Dixith Pnp, Umesh Agashe and Parag Karve managed the contests well, while the Chief Judges, Chinnappa Nanaiah, Sunil Nair, Biswajit Adhikari Sabari Girish were meticulous in their jobs. Our club member and the qualified contestant Chinoy Pareek participated  in International Speech Contest.

We had inaugural function in the evening, with the Hon'ble Governor of Goa as the Chief Guest!
The day was over for most with dinner and interaction session with the other clubs.

Day 2 began with training sessions from Amey Hegde, Sai Prasad & Siraj Syed. Then we had Evaluation Contest Finals. Contest Chair for finals was LGM Brillian SK and Chief Judge, Akbar Khan! It was a very well conducted contest and we had a great experience.



The evening fun night on the cruise was full of enthusiasm and energy held on Paradise Cruise ship.

On day 3: We started with a fantastic training session by Prakash Iyer and later had the newly elected officers installed by ID Deepak Menon.


Post lunch, we had the Awards & finally the results of the contests were declared.

This has been one of the best conferences that we have witnessed under Toastmasters.


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