Category: Meetings
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Meeting – Women’s Equality Open House
August 30, 2023 Toastmaster Helen gave an inspiring introduction about Women’s Equality and August 30, Women’s Equality Day, ♀️celebrating the ratification of the 19th Amendment protecting the right of women to vote. 🗳️ Patrice shared her speech about the future of shopping with 3D and augmented reality.🛒 Linda shared an inspiring speech, “10,000 hours” about…
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Meeting – Friendship
August 16, 2023 Our meeting on August 16 was full of friendship!🤗 Sonia shared her experience volunteering with children in Haiti. Priya’s speech bridged the topics of fire alarms and chocolates. 🍫 Uulkan led us in a round of Table Topics 💬 about friendship and loyalty. ☀️ Summer travel meant that a bunch of roles…
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Meeting – Inner Strength
August 9, 2023 Our August 9 meeting was full of inspiring examples of inner strength. 💪 Leena’s leader profile shared the life of Ahilyabai Bolkar, an example of inner strength, ❤️ who ruled an empire with compassion and responsibility. Helen shared a speech about the updates coming to Toastmasters.She began by discussing the discomfort of…
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Meeting – Bliss
August 8, 2023 Our August 2 meeting was full of bliss! 🌈 We began with Helen’s inspiring leader profile of Sheryl Sandberg. Sheryl was COO at Facebook and has been an advocate for women’s achievement in the workplace and for resilience after loss and setbacks. Chandara shared an Icebreaker titled ⏳Time Capsule. She shared reasons…
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Meeting – Thrills of a Lifetime
July 26, 2023 In line with our theme “Thrills of a Lifetime” our Grammarian Gail chose “exhilaration” as our word-of-the-day. We were exhilarated to try a new Zoom link that utilizes the camera in the conference room. Ruhina spoke about leadership styles and Mayura told us the lore behind the upcoming Chinese mid-autumn moon festival.…
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Meeting – Road Trips
July 18, 2023 Our July 18 Road Trip 🛣️ meeting was a fun journey. Speaker Giyora Barzilay shared his speech, A Worrier’s Choice. He brought us all the way all the way back through his family history as worriers in this moving story about how worry can cause you to miss life as it happens…
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Meeting – Follow the Sun
July 12, 2023 “Follow the Sun” was our theme for July 12 meeting, and it was luminous. Preetha Menon shared a leader profile of Virginia Holsinger, an unsung hero of food science. As a chemist and nutritionist, she improved and saved lives by developing milk substitute and powdered drink mix to relieve lactose intolerance and…
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Meeting – Ignite the Light
July 5, 2023 🎆 “Ignite the Light,” in honor of the 4th of July was the theme of our July 5 meeting. 🎇 In her speech,🌻 “Change is Beautiful”, Anushree Ramanath shared her journey from her hometown to the US to pursue her doctoral degree and her career as a researcher. Her story was full…
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Meeting – Follow Your Excitement
June 14, 2023 Our meeting began with Maurya providing an interesting leader profile of Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD, who provides inspiration to all in her company in the way she models servant leadership. We also conducted our annual Toastmaster elections where we elected Sarah Tang (VP Education), Helen Josephine (VP Public Relations) Ramya Radhakrishnan…
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Meeting – Adventure Time
June 7, 2023 Our new club emprise: a New Member Induction led by our VPM, Ramya. We officially welcomed Ruhina, Jun, and Gail as club members. Abhijeet led a workshop, “How to Craft a Speech” and told us to start in Media Res, bare our souls, and dig deep! Table Topics Master Liz asked two of our…
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