I was very happy today to stay after school with four students who are trying their hardest to make it to nationals. Sara from Comm. Health is working on a speech regarding philanthropy in business. Huh? After previewing and hearing her speech, we actually think it might be a little too long! Good work, Sara! If you keep at this pace, you'll perfect the art of public speaking in time for states!
Three other Comm. Health girls stayed to work on Entrepreneurship and Medical Office Procedures. They ran into some trouble with some of the terminology and decided to go seek expert medical help.
Jacquie is doing entrepreneurship and so is Mike. Their business ideas seem pretty fabulous to me, (I won't write them here because it's super-ultra secret!) but it seems they have a lot of work ahead of them. Today I showed them both some pretty decent reference materials I had which could help them with their business plans.
How about it previous members - have any advice for the computer and judged events? If you are an alumni posting here, it would be excellent if you included your year of graduation so the others know, okay? Thanks for reading!
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for judged events, speak at a medium pace and clearly. Don't interrupt the judges and make eye contact. I made it to nationals 2 years ago on our presentation alone. Ask Mrs Sylvia, our props and papers were terrible but with a great presentation we pulled second.
as for written and computer events...do what you can. if a problem is hard, mark it and come back to it later. they give you more than enough time to go back and finish problems you skip.
I made it to nationals both years I went on judged events and written events. Even managed a top 10 finish in California. Graduated in 06.
Oh yeah, Chris. I remember being up at about 1 a.m. (Which if you know me, then you know my appropriate bed time is 8:00 p.m.!) in Lynne's room helping print out all of the materials. Remember that? You didn't want to hook up your printer and said you'd do it in the morning. You nearly gave me a heart attack!
But you listened to me and although your materials might have been terrible - you are right. You had a great presentation and had an intelligent proposal. I was so proud of you guys!
haha yeah...i was tired! but we pulled it off. That was conquest right there. Now, I'm not saying to rely on the presentation, but a strong presentation will do you an unlimited amount of good. pair that with strong materials, you'll go far. so take the time you're given and work on your stuff now! don't wait until the last minute
Practice is definitely important. I tend to be one of those people that just like to dive in, and when I did one year, BP's principle, Mr. Gross, was the judge and it got me all flustered. lol.
IMPROV! Unless you're giving a formal speech, give your presentation a bit of jazz and improvise! I'm not saying go into the room completely unprepared, but practice your presentation with only a few key points written down on a note card. I did that at the 2005 state competition for global marketing and we nailed first place for the third year in a row. It probably would've worked at the national level if we had actually given our judge a copy of our presentation.
The point is, in real life, you're not always going to have months or even weeks to prepare a presentation and practicing that skill now will not only help you in the future, but make you sound like less of a robot while being judged.
As Chris's team mate I agree. We had a killer presentation, but one suggestion I have is make sure to print and prepare as many pages as possible before you arrive at states/nationals and always go into the presentation with more copies of your proposal than you think you need. You look prepared. (And I could have killed you that night Chris... it's not good to make a bunch of girls stress)
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