Edina Meeting Info

7:40 – 7:50 Business Meeting (10 minutes)

• Sergeant at Arms starts the meeting and invites Club’s
  President.
• Club’s President welcomes club to read pledge of allegiance
  and invites Invocation/Timer to say meeting invocation.
  • Welcomes guests
• Club conducts Business Meeting (Presiding Officers Present)
  (10-15 minutes, if needed)
  • Reading of the minutes from last meeting
  • Old business
  • New business
  • Announcements
• Club’s President welcomes Toastmaster

7:50 – 7:55 Toastmaster (5 minutes)

• Welcomes members and guests; explains his role
• The Toastmaster introduces Key meeting participants and asks
  them to explain their duties
  • Court Jester
  • Invocation/Timer
  • Grammarian
  • One Minute Toastmaster
  • Table Topic Master

7:55 – 8:15 Table Topics Master (10 – 20 minutes)

• Gives topic of the day and call on people to speak
• Turn meeting back over to Toastmaster

8:15 – 8:20 Break. Toastmaster announces break for 5 minutes

• General Evaluator pairs speakers and evaluators

8:20 – 8:50  Toastmaster starts ‘speaking’ part of the
meeting (30 minutes)

• Introduces Speaker 1 (5-7 minutes)
• Introduces Speaker 2 (5-7 minutes)
• Introduces Speaker 3 (5-7 minutes)
• Welcomes General Evaluator to conduct evaluation part of the
  meeting

8:50 – 8:55 General Evaluator conducts meeting
evaluation (15 minutes)

• Conducts voting for the Best Speaker
• Calls for evaluations – one by one calls evaluators to
  report
• Conducts voting for the Best Evaluator
• Calls for reports:
  • Timer
  • Grammarian awards “Word Picture of the Day” award.
    The award is for best visual expression during any speech given at the meeting.
    Currently big pencil.
  • Calls Table Topic Master to award the Best Table
    Topic Speech. Currently “Wise owl”.
• Awards “The Best Visual Effect” award. The award
  goes for the best visual presentation or picture.
• Awards Best Evaluator award. Currently
  key-chain-with-talking-fish.
• Awards Best Speaker award
• Overall meeting evaluation.
• Welcomes back Toastmaster

8:55 – 8:58 Toastmaster finalizes the meeting (3
minutes)

• Awards “Spark Plug”. The award goes to a
  member who was the most igniting or energizing during the meeting.
• Awards “Fuzzy Mouse” awards.  “Fuzzy
  Mouse” purpose is to be awarded for the best explanation of complex
  technical topic or idea in the most elegant, simple and understandable way.
• Closing comments (2 minutes)
• Welcomes Presiding Officers

8:58 – 9:00 Presiding Officer last minute updates (Is
schedule complete for the next 2 meetings) (2-5 minutes)

• Invocation/Timer – closing thought of the meeting.
• Adjourn

Each week, meeting roles rotate so that, over time, every chapter member gains
experience in each of these roles.