When:
November 17, 2018 @ 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
2018-11-17T09:00:00+05:30
2018-11-17T16:00:00+05:30

Toastmastering and KCG TM Clubs………An Introduction

Toastmasters International is a US headquartered non-profit educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of promoting communication and public speaking skills initially and at present toastmasters has introduced a programme called pathways which covers all professional skills. There are about 3, 60,000 members in 141 countries which is divided in to regions and districts. KCG Toastmasters Club (for faculty) is functioning in our campus since the year 2011 with 28 faculty members as on date and KCG Youth masters TM club (for students) is functioning in our campus since 2016 with 22 members as on date. The Clubs belong to region 13, district 82 and division G, covering Tamilnadu and Srilanka. It is worth mentioning that the club has bagged „Golden Gavel‟ Award twice, a prime honour in the toastmasters fraternity and produced two district leaders who served as Area Directors and has been the first educational organization in the district to have a faculty club exclusively for teachers amidst many other corporate and community clubs.

The Conference….

The Semi-annual Conference of Division G in association with Division B was hosted in our campus on Saturday, 17th November 2018. Around 380 toastmasters from different corporate and community clubs from the division participated. The Conference Comprised of the following components

  1. Humorous Speech and Evaluation Speech Contests
  2. District Council Meeting
  3. Keynote Speeches
  4. Distribution of Educational and Leadership Awards.

We are happy to inform that 4 out of the final 20 contestants were from KCG TM Clubs.

Finalists from KCG

Dr. Jaya R, Assoc.Prof, English Division and Balaji R (Aero Student) were the two among the top ten contestants for the Evaluation Speech Contest and Balaji

R (Aero Student) & Gautam R (CSE Student) were the two among the top 10 contestants for the Humorous Speech Contest.

Organizing Team from KCG

Faculty

  1. Praveen Joe, ACG, ALB, (CSE)
  2. Venketramanan, CC,CL (AERO)
  3. Ravichandran, CC, CL (AERO)

Students

  1. Aniruth(CSE)
  2. TM.Daniel Christopher (CSE)
  3. Akshaya (CSE)
  4. Poornima (AERO)
  5. TM.Thejshri (AERO)

News Letter

The division newsletter was released on the day by the district-trio, and TM. Aniruth was the reporter representing our area.

Awards, Recognitions and Winners

Six educational awards were filed and the toastmasters received their certificates for the same.Minu Susan

Jacob (CSE) and TM.Akshaya were recognized with “Excellence in Leadership” Awards for club growth.

Aniruth, TM, Akshaya and TM. Thejshri were recognized for being the newsletter reporter, Sargent at Arms and Co-Logistics Chair for the conference.

Venketramanan and TM. Ravichandran were recognized for being hospitality Chairs.

The team was recognized for being the venue partners for the conference and TM. Praveen Joe received it on behalf of the team

TM Balaji R of the KCG Youthmasters Club was the 1st  Runner Up in the Humorous Contest

Cultural Performance

Our first year dance team entertained all the delegates by their fabulous performance. They were recognized for the same by the organizers.

TEAM KCG – VENUE PARTNERS