The Season Begins!

Chaska Finalists at Woodbury "Royal Kickoff" Speech Tournament 1/13/18

January 13, 2018:
Welcome to Jeremiah's Speech Endeavors, a way for us to communicate with anyone interested about his Speech journey this year. A huge thanks to everyone who has supported Jeremiah in his fundraising efforts to get to national tournaments this year. More about that later.

There is a separate blog about speech and how it works. If you are unfamiliar with competitive speech, please see that entry. It also explains Jeremiah's two categories he is competing in this year.

1st Speech Tournament of the Year
Jeremiah attended speech camp last summer to help him learn the POI category. It's considered to be the most difficult category and would have been a difficult one to learn on his own. That time at camp and his hard work paid off today. Jeremiah got 2nd place in the POI category!!!  In spite of lots of work on his speech, he is still refining his Original Oratory speech.  He still had to compete with it today and have it memorized. He did not place today in this category so is hoping for another week to have the speech more refined and re-memorized. That's how the season goes, refine the speech each week and re-memorize!! He's been so excited to get started and is off to a great start!