GENERAL MEETING: 187

MEETING NUMBER: 187

Date: 06/01/2017

Venue:VIT board room

Time: 12:30 pm-02:30 pm

THEME: “SUPERNATURAL”

‘Silence’, it speaks a lot. Try to listen to the sounds around you in silence. Have you ever felt the powers that you can’t see? Have you ever felt a power that’s driving you and you can’t understand why? Have you ever tried to answer the ever prompting question, “Is it real?”? Yes, surely you must have and termed those weird powers as ‘supernatural’.

Supernatural that which is not from the observable, tangible, or measurable universe, or ,in simple words, “beyond nature”. There are many words related to this, like mystical, spiritualistic, divine or metaphysical. On one hand, many think ‘’supernatural” simply means there’s no known explanation for it yet. They use ‘supernatural’ as a stopgap measure (commonly called as ‘the God of the Gaps’) until somebody finds a reasonably reasonable ‘answer’. While others use ‘supernatural’ to describe just about anything that happens a little strangely. Some people are prone to superstition, UFOs and lifestyle fictions. Like, while praying for someone, if the flame of the diya blows out, then the person you were praying for is in major harm might even DIE; a funny looking cloud or lightning will make people think about UFOs or aliens.

 

With keeping this theme in mind a general meeting was organized in VIT toastmasters and it was initiated by our former SAA TM Rishabh in absence of present presiding officer. After getting acquainted with the basic code of conduct of the meeting by SAA, the TMOD TM Hemant initiated the meeting.

The TMOD Tm Hemant initiated very dramatically, in accordance with the theme, with lights off and a candle in hand. He made the ambiance full of supernatural powers by his imaginative situations of being in a castle, abandoned from years, in which all other members have dared to enter unaware of the outcomes. He even made the table topic session more interesting by saying, “Imagine you are driving on an empty road and its midnight. Suddenly your car broke down and a shadow appears on the road. It’s becoming bigger, bigger and boom! It enters in the car and chokes you. The same happens in the table topic session of our meeting. You see those devils, the topics, in front of you and they choke you for a while. But, we need to fight and defeat them to break the fetters and move ahead. So, I would like to call upon thestage the TTM for today’s meeting, Tm Mahima.”

 

This first meeting of new tenure had five sessions.The first session involved theintroduction of new EC members to other members. The second session was prepared speech session in which speakers were guided from their modules. The third session was Table Topic session (commonly termed as extempore) in which members got a topic to speak with their instantaneous thoughts. The fourth session was Evaluation session in which evaluators gave their feedback for the speakers guided by modules. The fifth session was announcing the winners, i.e., best speaker, best table topic speaker and best evaluator. Members of VIT TOASTMASTERS family justified their projects beyond expectations.

 

Following were the role players for the meeting:

S.No.	Roles	RolePlayers
1.	TMOD	Tm Hemant
2.	TTM	Tm Mahima
3.	General Evaluator	Tm Vaibhav
4.	Grammarian	Tm Haseema
5.	Timer	Tm Yash
6.	Ah-Counter	Tm Shobhit

 

Following is the list of speakers along with their project no. , Time limit, topics, and evaluators:

S.No.	Speakers	Project no.	Time limit(in minutes)	Title	Evaluators
1.	Tm Anand	ACB:3	5-7	Power Couple	Tm Raghav
2.	Tm Rashi	CC:5	5-7	Narendra-A Leader	Tm Rishabh
3.	Tm Payal	ALB:2	20-30		TmAnand
4.	Tm Raghav	ACS:4	As allowed	Keynote Address	TmShobhit

 

Following were the remarked speakers:

Best Speaker	Tm Raghav
Best Table Topic Speaker	Guest Dishant
Best Evaluator	TmVaibhav
Best Role Player	TmHemant

 

Following is the list of new EC Members:

Post	Names
President	Tm Anand
VP-Education	Tm Raghav Raj
VP-PR	Tm ShobhitSaxena
VP-Membership	Tm Rishabh Singh
Administration Manager	Tm RashiTanwar
Finance Manager	Tm PiyushMeena
Logistics Manager	Tm Yash Agrawal

 

Following are the pictures of the meeting:

 

The meeting was attended by most of the members. Every speaker gave their speeches and contentment to themselves by their way of delivery as shown in satisfactory evaluation session. Every role player did his/her job perfectly and maintained the decorum of the meeting. Overall a meticulous meeting ended calmly with a splendid start.

Landed with the word of the day:

SPIRITUAL, which means, relating to religion or religious belief.

FACULTY COORDINATOR: TM HASEEMA SHAHJAHAN