Youth Leadership Program 2022

from Triumph - Club ToastEd Newsletter Dec-May 2022

by pooja saran

Science Behind Body Language

Some of the accolades received by my club members in DTAC 2022 are as follows:

Alarmel Mangai DTM

Swetha Raghuraman DTM

Leadership Excellence – Division G Director; President Distinguished Division; Training Excellence Division; Outstanding Division in Education, Golden Quill Award, Program Achiever, Distinguished Toastmaster (2nd time)

Blazing Area – Area 28 Director; Classic CEO; Discoverer Award; Leadership Excellence

Exceptional Learner, Distinguished Toastmaster, Vibrant VPE, Passionate Learner; Charger Award; Mercurial Member; Supportive Toastmaster

Deepti Potnis

District Toastmaster of the Year;

Outstanding Leader;

Light House Award;

Finalist of the District International Speech competition

Rinku Saha DTM

Christopher Almeida DTM

TM Fathima Shameema

Charger Award for Sponsoring Club ToastEd

Light House Award for Mentoring Club ToastEd

Ameerudeen Moulana DTM

Dashing Debutant Treasurer

Growth Booster Award

TM Juliet Gladies

The two-day convention was not just any other event but was two full days of non-stop entertainment, lessons learnt, opportunity to network, make new friends, perseverance to work hard, determination to achieve more and memories to cherish forever. Eagerly looking forward for the DTAC 2023.

Youth Leadership Program 2022

Youth of today are leaders of tomorrow. - Nelson Mandela

TM Nagalakshmi V Kumar

Club ToastEd Toastmasters imagined adding value to the life of rural youth. What else other than YLP would give that kind of head start, as they hone communication and leadership skills? We identified Royal Park School in Salem, India. Toastmasters are relatively new to Salem and thus YLP also. With a brief explanation, school management confirmed their participation with 65 students in total from grade 8 and 9. Along with that few of our member’s children showed interest to join.

Club ToastEd in association with Westhills Toastmasters Club were all set to start with 71 students in total, divided into four groups namely Divergent, Avengers, Insurgent and Allegiant, along with four coordinators. Weekly two online sessions were planned starting from 10 May 2022 till 07 June 2022. Every session was supported by fellow toastmasters of Club ToastEd as Assistant Coordinators, Zoom Masters and all other roles that helped to avoid hitches.

"A person's person no matter how small" - Dr Seuss

Every session had module presenter toastmaster from across the world. Every student participated enthusiastically taking up all the roles and presenting speeches. The grand finale on 07 June 2022 witnessed the change, which was brought in by YLP in the Youth. Overall the children gained leadership skills by taking up different roles, fear free through speech presentations, confident through impromptu speeches and overall better communicators. As a life skill, this YLP induced in every student to realize their potential to excel through that.

It didn’t stop here! We toastmasters also groomed ourselves in collaborative leadership skills in large. This program was well received by school and they extended their interest of getting associated further.