Health Occupations Students of America, HOSA, needs judges for their competitive events. HOSA is a student organization that provides health care professionals with an opportunity to tap into Health Science classrooms to reach tomorrow's best and brightest potential health care workers. The competitions are designed to motivate HOSA members to study, work hard, and achieve a high standard of excellence in a variety of leadership and skill disciplines. 

There are a variety of events where judges with varying skills and experiences are needed. Also, HOSA will provide all judges information and answers to the questions prior to the competition. Some of the events are EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING, and POSTER, BIOMEDICAL DEBATE, CAREER HEALTH DISPLAY, CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING, HEALTH EDUCATION, CLINICAL SPECIALTY, JOB SEEKING and INTERVIEWING skills and MEDICAL and DENTAL SPELLING.  

Listed below are event particulars:

Congratulations to Chris Porter of the Irvine Toastmasters Club for winning first place in the second annual Founder's Film Award.

Are you amazed by some Toastmasters who have the simplest formula to achieving success? Robert Richert, DTM, and Nigel Blackwell, ACB, ALB, our very own Founder’s District members, inspire and show us how to triumph in conducting club matters as featured in the April 2011 Toastmaster International magazine. (Note: member login ID and password are required to access the current month's online magazine.)

Method, Mentors, Mindset, Metamorphosis, Measuring Up, and Me–Ready.

Robert reminds us that “All of us can help encourage new or shy members and instill confidence in them by fostering an atmosphere in which anyone has a chance to win a ribbon.” And

“If the club atmosphere can resemble a rehearsal more than the ‘play’ it reduces the sense of intimidation.”

Nigel, a member of Le Gourmet Club, tells us the winning formula is as old as Shakespearean days – Conduct the Scrumptious Symphony.

In Nigel's article “Dinner Club Celebrates Eating and Oratory” he logically points out that if you combine the biological eating imperative with the societal norm of the sharing of food then a Toastmaster does not have much choice left – “The sense of bonding and club community is strengthened when people break bread together.”

Hats off to Robert and Nigel for inspiring the leader and communicator in all of us.

What an exciting contest season it's been! All eight divisions of Founder's District have outdone themselves in the quality of the contests and the quality of the contestants. It's going to be a real showdown at the District Conference on April 16! 

Clcik on the links below to view video highlights from the Spring 2011 division speech contests.