The Rostrum Voice of Youth ACT Heats

By Nick Ewbank, Head of History, Philosophy and RaVE, Director of Oratory

On 22 March, Radford hosted the ACT heats of the Rostrum Voice of Youth.

This is the premier speaking competition for secondary students around Australia and has been running in the ACT for 50 years. It is the ‘big sibling’ to the Rostrum Primary Schools Speaking Competition, also run by Rostrum.

Two Radford students entered the Rostrum Voice of Youth public speaking competition for secondary students.

Anvi Gupta (Year 9, pictured below) and Thenuki Weerabaddana Dissanayake (Year 7, pictured above) entered the competition, which required them to present a six-minute speech on a topic chosen from a list of six options.

Anvi spoke on ‘This Time It Will Be Different’ and Thenuki on ‘Blue Skies’.

In what was a very pleasing result, Anvi placed second and Thenuki won the heat! As a result, Thenuki progresses to the NSW semi final, which will be held at Campbelltown in the second week of May.

Congratulations, girls, a fine effort!

If you would like more information about the competition, you can visit https://www.rostrum.com.au/rvoy.

If you would like more information about Rostrum (which is a public speaking organisation open to all) please visit www.rostrum.com.au.