MIT Can Talk! Speaking Competition
Tony Eng
Thu Feb 2, 03-05:00pm, 6-120
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 27-Jan-2012
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Many great thinkers of the past, the so called "Renaissance Men", excelled in both Engineering/Science and Exposition/Rhetoric/Oration. There is no reason why the MIT engineers and scientists of today, the creative men and women who will be the leaders of tomorrow, cannot do so as well. "MIT Can Talk" promotes campus-wide awareness of good oral communication skills. It consists of: (1) a series of independent workshop sessions on public speaking/oral communication, followed by (2) a speaking competition. The workshops are open to the MIT community, but the contest is open only to MIT undergraduates and MEng students.
Come watch MIT students compete for prizes at the "MIT Can Talk: Speaking Competition". Participants recite 5 minutes worth of material in English that relate to the competition theme for this year. This material can be original, or it can be an excerpt from a speech, a literary work, a poem, a story, etc. Prizes will be awarded by a panel of judges to those who are best able to deliver their material to a live audience. Audience members will also win prizes!
See also the entry for "MIT Can Talk: Workshop Series".
Web: http://web.mit.edu/~tleng/www/mitcantalk/main.html
Contact: Tony Eng, tleng@mit.edu
Sponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Latest update: 28-Nov-2011
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