Past Speech Contest Winners

Annual Conference Speech Contests

International:

• 2022:
  • First Place – Lindy MacLaine
  • Second Place – Michael Hanes
  • Third Place – Ajay Hiraskar
•  2021:
  • First Place – Cat Nguyen
  • Second Place – Ravi Adusimilli
  • Third Place – Gordon Mattingly
• 2020: Nish Neelalojanan, Fair Oaks Club
• 2019: Janet Hebert, Almaden Valley Orators Club
• 2018: Gopi Kallayil, I’m Feeling Chatty
• 2017: Barbara Busch, Sunnyvale Speakeasies

Evaluation:

• 2022:
  • First Place – Marcia Davis-Cannon
  • Second Place – Declan Shalvey
  • Third Place – Gayathri Natarajan
• 2019: Elaine Lung, Silicon Valley Storytellers
• 2017: Brad Jacobs, Next Step
• 2016: Matthew Stevenson, SynapTalks

Table Topics:

• 2021:
  • First Place – David Singer
  • Second Place – Janet Janssen
  • Third Place – Haixia Yu
• 2017: Sanjana Das, Cadence AHgorithms Club

Tall Tales:

• 2020: Dennis Dawson, Big Basin Toastmasters
• 2018: Andy Keates, TGIF Management

Fall Fusion Speech Contests

Evaluation:

• 2020:
  • First Place – Renee Yao
  • Second Place – Lin Chao
  • Third Place – Cat Nguyen

Table Topics:

• 2021:
  • First Place – Birgit Starmanns
  • Second Place – Nish Neelalojanan
  • Third Place – Megan Mayer

• 2019:
  • First Place – Alyson King
  • Second Place – Benjamin Shaibu
  • Third Place – Eric Szczerbaty
• 2018: Alyson King

Humorous:

• 2021:
  • First Place – Gordon Mattingly
  • Second Place – Jingyu Tan
  • Third Place – Karen Cornwell

• 2020:
  • First Place – Declan Shalvey
  • Second Place – Lisa Bennett
  • Third Place – Gordon Mattingly
• 2019:
  • First Place – Dennis Dawson
  • Second Place – Lynn Stuart
  • Third Place – Pradeep Gandhi
• 2018: Doris Tse

Costume Contest:

• 2021:
  • First Place – Kim Amundson
  • Second Place – Bastian Reimuth
  • Third Place – Tejas Sathe

• 2020:
  • First Place – Nishant Chandrashekar
  • Second Place – Chie Kawahara
  • Third Place – Dan Merget