Boaters Toastmasters

Toastmaster club. District 72, New Zealand. Rakaia Building, Ara Institute of Canterbury, Madras Street, Chch.

Archives for July, 2021

The Toastie Award

What is the infamous toastie award? It is an award given out once at every meeting to a speaker that has done extraordinarily well. How did it start? David explained the interesting origin story of the Toastie Award. It was many years ago when the club was in trouble, the venue kept changing due to ... read more.

Captured in collage

This week’s member blog was done in collage style – some pictures really do speak 1000 words. read more.

International connections with Toastmasters…

Member blog by Colin Hampson. Bravo to all who attended our meeting last week including our visitors both online and in person. We were lucky enough to have a visitor join us over Zoom all the way from Japan. He was interested to see how we run toastmasters meetings in New Zealand. Hopefully, we have ... read more.

Man taking photo of person presenting on a large screen via Zoom

Saving the world, one speech at a time

Member blog by Max Delaney. Steve Kennelly was our Toastmaster for the morning, exploring the meeting theme of the Winter Solstice. He presented different winter themed facts and got us looking forward to the longer days as we head towards summer! Corinne Bataille started us off with a research speech on food systems that can ... read more.