WEEKLY EDUCATIONAL MEETINGS

Educational meetings are of high significance in the Gavel club as they nurture speakers to be better versions of themselves in public speaking. The gavel club of the University of Kelaniya has weekly educational meetings on a preferable day for gavel members. Usually, weekly educational meetings are held on Fridays from 5.00 pm to 7.00 pm. Owing to the pandemic, the traditional physical educational meetings have transformed into virtual meetings hosted via the Zoom platform.

Each educational meeting has a theme dedicated for the meeting which is set by the Toastmaster of the Day and role players like timer, ah counter, grammarian, table topics master, table topics evaluator performs their defined tasks.

JOINT EDUCATIONAL MEETINGS

This is usually held as a very friendly gathering to associate Gaveliers from other universities and to interact with each other. The meeting structure of a joint meeting is similar to that of a regular educational meeting. The meeting roles are distributed among members of both clubs which requires the members to interact with each other prior to the educational meeting, through which new bonds and friendship are cultivated.

In a joint meeting, members from both the gavel clubs are encouraged to improve their public speaking skills by delivering speeches in a friendly and stress-free atmosphere.

THEMED EDUCATIONAL MEETINGS

UOK Gavel Club is all about fun and fellowship. In order to nourish these fellowships, we organize special themed meetings. Themed meetings are organized to celebrate special festivals such as Avurudu, Christmas and other special days like Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Halloween and Valentine’s Day. Themed meetings also enhance the involvement of a diverse fan group within the club with special meetings like MARVEL, Harry Potter, F.R.I.E.N.D.S themed meetings.

The members are often clad in different costumes honouring the themed meetings. We encourage our members to be creative and spread laughter in these meetings.  Members can come up with various ideas to make the meeting interactive and enjoyable.

Gaveliers are encouraged to come up different stories related to the theme. Themed meetings highlight the cultural diversity within our club as well as differences in experiences and ideas between us. Through themed meetings, Gaveliers will master the art of public speaking and have a great time.

BEST SPEAKER

As much as the club thrives to craft its members into passionate public speakers, it aspires to contribute to the public speaking community beyond the club. All Island Inter University Best Speaker is an annual flagship event, organized by the club in affiliation with the Career Guidance Unit of University of Kelaniya to unite mastery in public speaking of all the state universities in Sri Lanka.

Underlying the title ‘Best Speaker’, is a glorious quest that strides to discover authentic talent. The club believes that the title ought to be earned by a well- rounded speaker who is adroit in both prepared speech and impromptu speech. The contest consists of three rounds: The preliminary round, semi- final and grand finale and is held under two main categories; prepared speech and impromptu speech contests. Undergraduates from any state university of the country are eligible to participate in the contest. It is mandatory all the contestants compete in both prepared and impromptu speech contests to honor the purpose of the contest.

INTER SCHOOL BEST SPEAKER

The University of Kelaniya Gavel club is an outstanding student organization with the main intention of helping the undergraduates as well as the school community to enhance their communication, public speaking, and leadership skills.  Thus, the Interschool Best Speaker contest has being through a successful expedition for over five years, discovering young passion and uplifting their public speaking and leadership skills.

Moreover, with the fact that the Sri Lankan school community generally receives the opportunity to participate in public speaking contests after school years, it is commendable that the University of Kelaniya Gavel club is engaged in a sincere attempt to change this convention for the first time. ‘Unleash Yourself’ was first organized in 2013 as a school workshop series. In 2014 the project was expanded with the commencement of the first Inter School Best Speaker Contest. These contests were continuously held for nearly five years along with the workshop series conducted at various schools and even at children’s homes.

Inter School Best Speaker invites all the schools in Sri Lanka to participate for the contest.  Just like the Inter University Best Speaker, the contest is a collaborative exploration initiated by both the club and the Career Guidance Unit to discover passionate speakers at school level and lend them a helping hand to enliven their future. This is yet another glorious event that resonates the legacy of the club, perceiving its dream to create a space to improve public speaking, manifest leaders, and nurture true friendship

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Gav. Famidha Faiz

Vice President – Public Relations

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