The final round of the 2013 Eleanor Stem Allen Speech Trek Contest was held on Saturday, April 20 at the AAUW CA Annual Meeting. The three finalists gave their speeches and the prizes were awarded.

Pictured are (from left): Pavin Trinh, 1st place winner of $1500, (Alhambra-San Gabriel); Tierney Pretzer, 3rd place winner of $500 (Mariposa);  Kaitlyn Schultz, 2nd place winner of $1000 (Oakddale/Escalon/Riverbank)

Gray Allen, sponsor, awarded the prizes and made a few remarks about his wife, Eleanor Stem Allen, in whose memory the contest is named.

 Eleanor Stem-Allen Memorial

Speech Trek 2012 Contest Finalists

 From left: Daisy Figueroa (3rd place), Shelina Noorali (2nd place), Kyron Richard (1st place) 

BULLIES ANONYMOUS

Is your branch planning a Speech Trek contest this year?  The deadline to notify Speech Trek of your intent to participate is October 1.  Email it to speechtrek@aauw-ca.org.

You can find all the materials you need in the Speech Trek Toolkit.  Download it from this website in the Forms & Documents section under Speech Trek HERE. 

The Student Packet, which you will give to each student contestant has been recently updated.  It can be found in the same section -- click HERE.

Dee Quatraro, AAUW CA Speech Trek Coordinator, reports that the the tool kit for 2011-12 has been posted. 

The contest theme for 2011-12 is "BULLYING: so what?"

The tool kit, which contains all the resources a branch needs to participate in the annual Speech Trek contest, can be found on the AAUW CA website, in the Forms & Documents section under Speech Trek (or by clicking HERE).