Three Tri-Valley high school students drew on firsthand experiences for the theme “Serve to Change Lives” to win Rotary District 5170’s club-level, Richard D. King Annual Youth Speech Contest Feb. 3 at Foothill High School, Pleasanton.
Arya Krishna, a junior Foothill junior, Shrey Raj, a junior at Dublin High School, and Audrey Shotland, a ninth grader at The Athenian School, Danville, each won $200 cash awards and qualified for the second of three rounds that will lead to district finals and its $1000 top prize in April. Colin Gillette, a Foothill ninth grader, and Ashley Mantha, an Amador High ninth grader, placed second.
Because of surging Covid-19 cases, the contest was actually three club-level contests combined into one. The sponsoring chapters were Dublin Rotary Club, Pleasanton North Rotary (PNR), and Tri-Valley Evening Rotary Club, according to Kevin Greenlee, PNR youth service coordinator.
The Rotary clubs of District 5170 support the annual contest with three goals in mind. It strives to increase awareness about the importance of effective public speaking as a communications skill and for leadership development. It spreads the word about Rotary International’s humanitarian mission and the work of its 1.4 million members, and it strives to increase participation in the speech contest itself and the skills its participants learn by competing. For more information, see www.rotary.org.
Competitors show how they finished in Rotary’s 2022 Club-Level, Richard D. King Annual Youth Service Contest.
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