Speaker Slam: Speaking Competition
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Judging Criteria

Inspirational Speech (100 pts)  
Storytelling (30 pts)
  • Powerful personal story
  • Vivid and descriptive
  • Entertaining
  • Relevant learnings from story

Universal Message (25 pts)
  • Powerful and meaningful message
  • Strong moral to the story
  • Great learnings
  • Message worth sharing

Emotional Connection (15 pts)
  • Inspiring and Impactful
  • Resonates, passionate, heart touching
  • Ability to connect the audience emotionally to their speech

Presentation (10 pts)
  • Vocal variety
  • Body Language and performance
  • Powerful and commanding

Uniqueness (10 pts)
  • Creativity
  • Innovative
  • The “It” Factor

Language (10 pts)
  • Compelling use of language
  • Powerful word selection

Timing Criteria 

Video Submissions

Speeches should be 4 minutes.​​

Disqualification: Any video longer than 4 minutes and 31 seconds will be disqualified

Live Competition Online

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Disqualification: Anything more than 4 minutes and 46 seconds will be disqualified
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