Introduction

 The Rotary Youth Speaks Competition is a well-established and successful competition organised and promoted by Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland.  It is a four-stage competition that is designed to support and encourage the development of effective communication skills. Some stages may have more than one round.

Aims

This competition aims to offer young people:

• experience in speaking on a public platform as a member of a team
• an incentive to formulate ideas on topical subjects
• discipline in dealing with a topic in a limited time
• the opportunity of learning and practising high standards of expression, presentation and appearance
• impartial feedback and assessment of performance by experienced adjudicators

Who can take part?

The competition is open to all schools and college communities including those that are home-educated and any other young people’s community organisations, for example, community RotaKids, community Interact, Scout Groups, and Girl Guides.

Each team will comprise three students in full-time education in the age group, 7-10 years.

With the age qualifying date of 31 August in the year of the competition, It should be noted that some junior entrants may be 11,

Students should enter the competition organised by the local Rotary club through their respective groups, as detailed above.

Competitors, schools, colleges and other organisations can participate in a district that is outside of their boundary, but can only compete in one club or district.

Download our information pack on the Forms page