Sundance Open Invitational Online
2022 — NSDA Campus, UT/US
Informative
Event Description:
NOTE: This is an Asynchronous Event, you will not see students in person or go to a room. You will see on your ballot the names of the students with a camera icon...click on that icon and view their speech and evaluate it on the ballot. After viewing all of them, you will make your decision and submit your ballot. Please do so as if this was a real round in real time.
Students author and deliver a ten-minute speech on a topic of their choosing. Competitors create the speech to educate the audience on a particular topic. All topics must be informative in nature; the goal is to educate, not to advocate. Visual aids are permitted, but not required. The speech is delivered from memory.
Informative is a speech written by the student with the intent to inform the audience on a topic of significance. Informative gives students the unique opportunity to showcase their personality while educating the audience.
An Informative is not simply an essay about the topic—it is a well researched and organized presentation with evidence, logic, and sometimes humor to convey a message. Topics are varied and interesting. Whether it be a new technological advance the audience is unaware of or a new take on a concept that everyone is familiar with, Informative is the students opportunity to teach the audience. Types of topics and structure vary greatly.
Sample Ballot--All speech events are judged on similar skills.
https://www.speechanddebate.org/wp-content/uploads/Sample-Ballot-All-Speech-Events-Blank.pdf