Macintalkers is back and ready for the new year. Meetings resumed this past week and will continue each Wednesday at 5:40 pm. Before we took a break for the holidays, we gathered at the City Center Caffè Macs for a year-end celebration. We had an unconventional round of Table Topics, with members acting as news […]
Our last regularly scheduled meeting of 2019 was last week on December 11. Club members are invited to attend our annual holiday party tonight at the City Center 1 Caffè Macs. Please join us again in 2020, with meetings starting up again on January 8. For members looking to take on a leadership role in […]
At our November 6 meeting, Risabh was our toastmaster. We heard an icebreaker from Jennie, who told us about how everyone seems normal until you get to know them. Sharon delivered a prepared speech about how the “rule of three” can help us form a speech outline. I (Jack F) won the award for best […]
This past Wednesday we had our last meeting of October, right before Halloween! Rajat served as Toastmaster, and he did a great job of keeping things running smoothly. We heard prepared speeches from Jack L, Deima, and Keong. Jack took on the challenge of explaining a technical topic through analogy and Keong spoke to us […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Aaah! 2016 is almost over. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions? Did you adhere to “New Year, New You”? Now not to brag… but I did. I had one simple resolution: Say Yes. Just say yes. Now, when you look at me—Kory— you probably think, “Oh Kory—he’s not that exciting…” Well, sure, but did […]
