Chennai Speakers Forum: Meeting No 248

Attendees

TM Siddarth	TM Shriram	DTM Saro	TM Rajesh Vel
TM Kishore	TM Selvan	TM Barathi Goel	TM Supraja
TM Pratima	TM Gopal	TM Rajeev Menon	TM Karthikeyan A
TM Sowmya	TM Nagaraj	TM Thyagarajan	TM Satish
TM Pranav	Guest TM Prasanna	Guest TM Ishwarya	TM Vijay
Guest TM Divhya	Guest TM Irfan	Guest Firoz

The 248^th Chennai Speaker Forum meeting was conducted on 16^th April’17, at Trust Conference Hall, Nungambakkam.

Meeting started at around 10 am.

Houseful Meet @ CSF

10.00 A.M. SSA CALLS FOR MEETING.

Meeting was called to order by the Sergeant at Arms, TM Supraja , who explained the mission and vision of Toast Masters and control was handed to The President.

10.03 A.M. PRESIDENT ADDRESS.

President TM Siddarth set the tone for the meet and declared the meet open.

10:07 A.M.- GUEST INTRODUCTIONS.

The President requested the guests to introduce themselves. Guests for the day were TM Irfan , TM Prasanna, TM Ishwarya ( Was at CSF to give her CC6),TM Dhivya and Firoz.

TM Ishwarya

TM Irfan

10:10 A.M. – PRESIDING OFFICER INTRODUCED THE TMOD.

Presiding office TM Siddarth introduced the TMOD – TM Karthikeyan , who announced the Theme and word of the day in his signature style.

Theme Of The Day: Inside Out

Word of the day: ‘Bliss’ meaning perfect happiness.

TMOD Karthikeyan Arumugam

10:15 A.M. – GENERAL EVALUATOR INTRODUCTION.

TMOD introduced the General Evaluator for the meet, TM Nagaraj , who explained his role and in turn announced the TAG Role Players of the day, as below

Timer – TM Thayagarajan

Ah Counter - TM Sathish

Grammarian - TM Shriram

10:20 A.M. – PREPARED SPEECH SESSION

The Prepared Speech segment started with TMOD calling upon the below speakers to present their prepared speech

Speaker & Evaluators	Project
Speaker : TM Gopalakrishnan Evaluator: DTM Saro Velrajan	Manual: Competent Communication Project #1 : Icebreaker Title: Try me
Speaker : TM Kishore Kumar Evaluator: TM Bharthi Goel	Manual: Competent Communication Project #2 : Organize your speech Title: It’s now or never
Speaker : TM Ishwarya Evaluator: TM Vijayaragavan CC,ALB	Manual: Competent Communication Project #6 :Vocal variety Title: Mirror mirror on the wall
Speaker : TM Sidharth CL Evaluator: TM Rajesh V ACB,CL	Manual: Competent Communication Project #8 : Visual aids Title: History on film

By the end of this segment, TMOD requested the gathering to vote for the best speaker and proceeded to the next segment.

10:50 A.M. – TABLE TOPIC SESSION

TMOD handed over the control to Table Topics Master for the day ,TM Supraja.

TT session saw some fine topics and participation from most of the attendees present.

By the end of the TT session, control was handed back to TMOD.

11:20 A.M. – EVALUATION SESSION

The General Evaluator was called upon by the TMOD for an evaluation session. The GE and his team of evaluators presented their evaluations for all the prepared speeches.

All the evaluators for the prepared speeches gave bespoke feedbacks to the speakers.

After the evaluations were done, the control was handed back to GE.

11:40 A.M. – TAG TEAM & GE REPORT

GE requested the Tag role players to present their reports, which was later followed by the GE Report for the day.

GE noted that the meeting hall was well arranged by the SAA and so were all the sessions.

The GE handed the control back to the President.

11:50 A.M. – GUESTS FEEDBACK

President requested guests for their feedback on the session. All the guests liked the energy of CSF and expressed their interest in revisiting the club in future.

11:52 A.M. – ANNOUNCEMENTS OF WINNERS

President called upon DTM Saro to acknowledge the below winners

Best Speaker – TM Siddarth