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Social Awareness Speech Contest

Sustainability

 

Speech Duration

The Social Awareness Speech Contest aims to find people capable of inspiring and galvanizing support for acting on the problems that our world is facing.

The speech should include a clear description of a social or personal problem that has a social projection (for example - discrimination, lack of access to water, lack of access to education, lack of communication skills, inequality, ....). Note that the problem may be either of the society as a whole ("climate change") or an indvidual problem that is shared by a number of people (eg.: a rare disease poverty, etc.)

The speech should propose a way to deal with the problem, and one that's both applicable(realistic) and ideally - original.  

Many times speakers just do the "awareness" part : they make us aware for example that there are people with some weird disease that face some very specifical difficulties of which we had never heard before, and then stop there. Contestants should go further - indcating what they suggest should be done. And we as judges need to think whether that's actually doable and whether that's a really interesting idea.  The suggestion should be specific and concrete, not some sort of pie-in-the-sky desire as in "social problem: discrimination. proposed solution : be more tolerant". Yeah, right 😅

 

For the social awareness speech, the idea is that if the speaker was to actually go to a governmental body with that proposal, or start a fundraising or signature collection campaign for implementing it, they shouldn't be laughed away.

 

Speeches entering the Social Awareness Speech Contest must have a maximum duration of 7 minutes.

Speeches on other subjects or that verse on imaginary “problems” (e.g., we want NASA to come clean on the moon landing hoax) or have a pseudo-scientific basis will be disqualified.

As in the case of the Educational Speech Contest, the use of or reference to pseudosciences will result in a disqualification.

 

Scoring of Speeches

 

Judges will score speeches according to the following criteria. Each criterion is scored from 0 to 10:

SOCIAL AWARENESS Speech Scoring
Criteria Explanation Weight
Clarity and Focus Will consider how clear the speech was, and whether it focused on a single, well-defined problem. 1
Social Accuracy Will consider how real and accurate the problem described was. 2
Usage of language Will consider the richness, expressiveness, and vividness of the language used. The ability of the speaker to project images into the audiences’ minds. 1
Use of props or visual aids Will consider how effective visual aids or props were for amplifying the message in the speech. 1
Narration quality Will consider vocal variety, body language, pauses, and other narration characteristics. 1
Emotional content Will consider the speaker's ability to convey and elicit emotions in the audience. 2
Social Message Will consider the depth of the speech's core message. 3
Persuasiveness Will consider how persuasive the speaker was and their capacity to move people to action. 3
Supporting Evidence Will consider whether the speaker provided enough arguments (in terms of data, or studies, or logical reasoning) in support of their position and proposal and whether those were free of errors and fallacies. 3
Actionability Will consider whether the speech contained actionable proposals, their viability, and how the audience reacted to them. 5
Action Originality Will consider the originality of the actions proposed. 5

For each speech, the weighted average of the above scores will be computed, and that will be the final score assigned to that contestant.

NOTE:   The use of props or visual aids is optional. If a participant did not use any props or visual aids, that category would be excluded when computing the averages.

Titles

The winner of any level except the World Final will have the title of “Best Social Awareness Speaker of (region)”

 


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