8/5/2025 Club Meeting Minutes

Attendance:

	Alex	x	Kaitlynn	x	Rahul
x	Alicia	x	Lien	x	Rayven
x	Art	x	Mariah		Sehee
	Audrey	x	Maricela		Tammy
x	Ben	x	Matt
x	Cami	x	Michael B.
x	Diana	x	Michael M.
x	Don		Michelle T.
x	Eddie	x	Mike B.
x	Elise	x	Mona		Inactive:
x	Emi	x	Niki L.		Chad
x	John	x	Nikki M.		Stephen
x	Justine	x	Pietro		Steve

Guests:

Larry

1st Visit or

x

Return Visitor

Meeting Theme: Endless Summer

Word of the Day:

Functionaries:

• Presiding Officer: Mariah

• Toastmaster: Rahul

• Timer: Don

• Grammarian: Elise

• Ah-Counter: Lien

• General Evaluator: Kaitlynn

• Topicmaster: Niki L.

• WordMaster: Mariah

• JokeMaster: Justine

• WisdomMaster: Maricela

Speeches:

• Speaker #1: Ben

  Speech Title: Speaking the Impossible Into Existence

  Path: Motivational Strategies Level #: 2 Project Name: Understanding Your Communication Style Summary: Ben demonstrated his supportive communication style through telling the stories of his rim to rim to rim trip where he helped a couple of tired women make it back to the top, and during his ultra marathon where he and his son encouraged each other. Evaluator: Michael M.
  

• Speaker #2: Pietro

  Speech Title: Finding My Rhythm: A Journey of Faith, Recovery, and Drumming

  Path: Presentation Mastery Level #: 1 Project Name: Evaluation & Feedback (1/2) Summary: Pietro joined a drum circle and was immediately hooked, becoming fully engaged. He learned to connect with the heartbeat of life and found the experience to be a healing one for him. Evaluator: Emi

  

  
  

• Speaker #3: Michael B.

  Speech Title: How to Create a D&D Character

  Path: Presentation Mastery Level #: 3 Project Name: Using Presentation Software Summary: Michael introduced us to the character-creation process for Dungeons & Dragons, using a charming character, Flumph, as an example. Evaluator: Mike B.

Table Topics Participants:

• Matt

• Eddie

• Alicia

• Diana

• Art

• Larry (guest)

• Justine

Awards:

• Speech of the Day: Ben

  

• Best Table Topics Speaker: Larry (guest - not pictured)

• Most Effective Evaluator: Emi

  

• Spark Plug Award: Michael B.

  

Club Business & Announcements:

• Next week's agenda

• Level completions: Ben completed level 1, Cami completed level 2 - congratulations!

• Toasties awards ceremony will be on September 20th. Click here for more information.

• Upcoming contests (club contest date TBA) will be the International Speech Contest and Tall Tales Contest - start preparing now!

Minutes taken by: Emi