Over the years, Anchorvale CC Toastmasters has always been a cultural melting pot, bringing people from many cultures together. Today, we tried to be a different kind of melting pot- one focused on Ideas in our first ever Hackathon Brainstorming meeting entitled "Anchorvale CC Toastmasters - Where to Next?"
As our SAA of the day, Ram kicked off the meeting by asking everyone to share an inspirational quote. Senthil next took to the stage to deliver a fantastic opening in his TMD role.
Thereafter, Club President Norman shared on the recent demise on our beloved ex-President Mr S.R Nathan, his opportunity to meet him and the lessons that we could all learn from him.
What an exciting day we had lined up. 6 prepared speeches, 3 from the Competent Communicator Manual and 3 speeches from 3 different Advanced Manuals. Our 6 speakers, Vicky, Hemant, Ricky, Zulhafni, Muthu and Benjamin were all revved up to entertain us. And they most certainly delivered! Inspiration, Life Tips, Moral Lessons, Humour, we had it all! It was an oratorical delight that made the Saturday afternoon absolutely awesome!
The first half was inspiring and now its time for a short refreshing break. This was not just a break but a time to sing "Happy Birthday to you...." yes..its birthday celebration for Salma, Senthil and Ms.Vicky (Sorry Mr. Vicky). It was good to meet few members after a long time. Also exchanged few ideas and got ready for the next upcoming Evaluation and Hackathon sessions.
After a short break, we resumed with our Project Evaluations, helmed by our own Salma, Zul, Benjamin and Sathya and our awesome guest evaluator Timothy Lin, DTM. Each evaluator had his own distinctive style, some opting to use analogies while others relied on hilarious yet useful lines. Zul chose to evaluate Muthu from the perspective of a taxi driver and it was truly a great experience watching all these great evaluators.
The Hackathon was such an experience that everyone was so impressively involved in the brainstorming of ideas!
Furthermore, all of such contributions from the club's Toastmasters, the visiting Toastmasters to the guests, will help grow and develop the club further. In addition, crafting a wholesome experience for future chapter meetings.
This must not be the only Hackathon to be hold. More must come. More ideas must be spewed out. More of such fun!
Congratulations to our Award Winners:
Best Prepared Speech: Ricky Setiawan, TM
Best Project Evaluator: Zulfani Zulkeflee
Please join us for our next chapter meeting on the 10th of September at Sengkang West Zone 'A' RC
Centre, Blk 303B Anchorvale Link, #01-92, Singapore 542303, from 2pm to 4.45pm. We will be having another fantastic line-up of speeches as well as a Special Speech Craft Session by District 80's Public Relations Manager, Mohd Hijazi, ACG/ALB.
Hope to see you then!
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