SPEAKING Prepared/Unprepared Speech Contest Results Announced
The Turkish-Social Department once again hosted its annual “Laf Ebesi / Prepared and Impromptu Speech Contest” on Friday, May 3. The opening speech of Uras BAHÇEKAPILI kicked off our competition, which seeks to develop the abilities of expressing one’s emotions and thoughts with integrity and consistency and speaking in front of the community.
Our students gave a three-minute prepared speech on a topic of their choosing in the first of the competition’s two parts, which was hosted by eighth-grader İpek Lily GRIFFITH. In the second part, the top six performers gave impromptu speeches for two minutes on topics chosen by the speech wheel.
The competitors’ speeches were assessed by the jury based on their “mastery of the subject, consistency, pronunciation, fluency, originality, and richness of vocabulary.” Following the jury’s assessment, Zeynep DİNÇTÜRK from 5A took first place, followed by Melisa BELGİN from 5C and Ekin SILAY from 8A. We congratulate and wish ongoing success to all of our students who took part in the competition.this journey. Mathematikum, an interactive science museum in Giessen, offered us the opportunity to explore mathematics in a fun and hands-on way. From geometric shapes to optical illusions, from mathematical modeling to number games, we realized how mathematics is intertwined with real life through a wide range of interactive experiences. The Chocolate Museum in Cologne was a sweet stop that brought history and taste together. We traced the fascinating journey from cocoa beans to chocolate. The last stop of our trip was Amsterdam’s famous NEMO Science Museum. We felt the excitement of discovering and learning by experiencing scientific experiments one-to-one. This trip broadened the students’ cultural and scientific perspectives and gave them new horizons.
