Announcements
Club earns the prestigious President's Distinguished Club recognition for the SIXTH Year running
Toastmasters International recognized our club for the past SIX YEARS by awarding The Austin Toastmasters the President's Distinguished Club honor. This puts us among the elite clubs in the world, recognizing the consistent levels of performance, membership, learning, and achievement required to earn these awards.
Congratulations to our club members and officers for striving each week to portray our club culture as one of simple values - excellence in the Toastmasters Program.
Club contests every Spring and Fall
Plan early to participate. We plan a Speech and Evaluation contest every Spring and a Humorous Speech and Table Topics contest every Fall. The Spring contest is the local-level requirement for the International Speech Contest. If you don't feel the urge to compete, we need supporting roles such as timekeeper and sergeant-at-arms filled. We also need members to serve as judges at other clubs, so we can have judges at our contests. Please speak to Education VP, Tonja Miller, about participating in any contest. The District 55 website has more information on International Contests.
All-Around Toastmaster Award
A recent addition to our club is the All-Around Toastmaster Award, which can be earned by any member of the Austin Toastmasters Club if that member serves in all eleven roles by the date of our banquet this summer. All a member has to do is fill every role at least one time:
- Toastmaster
- Topics Master
- Speaker
- General Evaluator
- Evaluator
- Grammarian
- Videographer
- Ah Counter
- Vote Counter
- Timekeeper
- Invocator
A certificate will be presented to each Austin Toastmasters Club member who has earned the award at our annual banquet.
If you made a New Year's Resolution to be more active in Toastmasters this year, this is just the way to do it! The Membership VP, Amy Samet, is keeping track of who fills the roles each week.
