Note: Rebecca Boorsma won third place at the District 101 Table Topics Contest on May 20, 2017. She represented the Macintalkers. Here is her account of competing in the Club, Area, Division and finally District level. My Path to District By Rebecca Boorsma Most of us fear the dreaded Table Topics question. We feel our […]
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Lillian Hull achieves Distinguished Toastmaster award!
On March 29, 2017, our very own Lillian Hull was honored with the Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) award, the highest designation that the Toastmasters organization bestows. According to Toastmasters International, the award recognizes “a superior level of achievement in both communication and leadership.” Members who have reached DTM are in an exclusive club. Less than 1 […]
Macintalkers’ Rebecca Boorsma and Shloka Kini win Area Contest!
We held a very successful Area E2 Contest on March 15. Members from our club, Macintalkers, completed with representatives from five other clubs—Fair Oaks, VentriTalks, Sunnyvale Speakeasies, PCYC and Flying Toasters in in the Table Topics and International Speech Contest. Rebecca Boorsma, our former club president, won first place in the Table Topics contest with […]
Shloka Kini and Rebecca Boorsma win Macintalkers Toastmasters Contests
Cupertino, CA – February 9, 2017 Shloka Kini and Rebecca Boorsma won the Macintalkers Toastmasters Club’s 2017 International and Table Topics Speech Contests, respectively, on Wednesday, February 8 on the Apple campus. The International Speech Contest featured speakers presenting a five to seven-minute speech on a topic of their choosing. Kini bested other contestants with […]
Kory’s first-time experience competing at an Area Contest
This August our club, the Macintalkers, had a humorous speech contest. I thought, hey I’m kind of humorous—often unintentionally—but still, I’m usually able to get laughs from my club members when I speak. So I took a speech I had given earlier this year about saying yes to new things, revised it and performed it […]