EFL Initiates the First Sekolah Mentari Speech-Fest

 Friday, 4 April 2014. Sekolah Mentari Grand Surya held its first “Speech Fest”. This is an activity which helps us develop our confidence by talking in front of a big crowd. Speech Fest’s contestants were from the Grade 7, but not all of them joined. Only 14 of the lucky ones were chosen, the rest were hoped to do in another venue.

All of the EFL students were picked. However 1 student from the EFL was not able to join and the rest 7 contestants were form the ESL. The grade 7 had to wear formal clothes to school. The activity started from 08.30 am -9.30 am in our school auditorium. The theme of this year’s was “The Voice of the Youth is the Echo of Tomorrow”. The judges were the audience and were composed of Grade 4, Grade 5 and Grade 6.

The judges were given evaluation sheets where they had to vote. They gad to vote their top 5 contestants, top 5 topics, reasons and their comments. The EFL have work very hard to count those cotes and came out with the results and the top 5 contestant were Vianca, Bastian, Elvira, Gaby and Robin. Vianca got the highest vote, 59 votes out of 74 papers that were counted. She was also the first one to perform. The 2^nd highest with just a 2-vote difference was Bastian who got 57 votes. The 3^rd had a very important wake up call to the youth, it’s Elvira with 47 votes. Next one was Gaby, with her “confidence topic” getting 39 votes. The last but not the least, was Robin was Robin with 26 votes.

Aside from the top 5, we also had our bottom 5. This will make them improve their speech and public speaking. The person who had the lowest score was Regine, 5 votes only. The second to the last was Angela who got very interesting topic but she only got 8 votes. Next were Grecia and Tamara, they got a total of 12 votes. In the 8^th position, we got Thea, with 17 votes. With 18 votes, we have Jennyfer with her cellphone topic.

This activity had brought everyone joy. Not only the students were, satisfied but also the principals and teachers. Like our principal said, Pak Hari, “This activity is really good and I personally support the kids of the future class to do this next year. For this year’s speech fest, the students have performed their best and have chosen good topics related to the youth. Even though 1 of the 14 had difficulties, it’s all good.” It’s his closing remarks for the 2014 “Speech Fest”


( By : T-Rex - Vianca )