B. OPEN Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 Speech - 2:00pm

  1. Speaker 1


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1.  “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” --Kevin Kruse


    2.  “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt


    3. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” - Mae West

  2. Speaker 2


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1. “ Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” –Napoleon Hill


    2.  “I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” -Herbert Bayard Swop


    3. “Little by little, one travels far.”- J.R.R. Tolkien

  3. Speaker 3


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1.  “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” –Florence Nightingale


    2.  “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”

    – Mother Teresa



    3. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” -Oprah Winfrey

  4. Speaker 4


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1.  “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” –Woody Allen


    2.  “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” – Hans Christian Andersen


    3. “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” Dalai Lama

  5. Speaker 5


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1.  “Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” –Pablo Picasso


    2.  “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson



    3. “The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.”- Malcolm X 

  6. Speaker 6


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1.   “If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.” –Sheryl Sandberg


    2.  “It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.” -George Washington



    3. “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” - Albert Einstein

Round 2 Speech - 3:30pm

  1. Speaker 1


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1.  Brutality


    2.  Memory


    3.  Weakness

  2. Speaker 2


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1.  Music


    2.  Skill


    3. Forgiveness

  3. Speaker 3


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1.  Grief


    2.  Insanity


    3. Patience

  4. Speaker 4


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1.  Helpfulness


    2.  Energy


    3.  Adventure

  5. Speaker 5


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1.  Death


    2.  Surprise


    3. Self-control

  6. Speaker 6


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1.  Grace


    2.  Childhood


    3. Success

Round 3 Speech - 4:30pm

  1. Speaker 1


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1.  racing car


    2.  detective


    3.  sand

  2. Speaker 2


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1.  hurricane


    2.  wallet


    3. frog

  3. Speaker 3


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1.  parachute


    2.  birdcage


    3. ocean

  4. Speaker 4


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1.  bananas


    2.  shoes


    3. arrow

  5. Speaker 5


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1.  tunnels


    2.  cloud


    3. Soap

  6. Speaker 6


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1.  prince


    2.  coffee


    3.  rock


FINALS Speech - 5:30pm

  1. Speaker 1


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1.  A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.


    2.  A half-truth is a whole lie.


    3. There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

  2. Speaker 2


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1.  Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.


    2.  You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink.


    3. Two men in a burning house must not stop to argue.

  3. Speaker 3


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1.  Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.


    2.  Words are like spears -- Once they leave your lips they can never come back.


    3. Knowledge is like a garden -- If it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.


  4. Speaker 4


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1.  It's not enough to learn how to ride -- You must also learn how to fall.


    2.  Don't insult the alligator until you've crossed the river.


    3. If you always walk down the same path, you’ll only go where you’ve already been.


  5. Speaker 5



    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1.  A horse has four legs, yet still stumbles.


    2.  You can bend a young twig, but it is hard to bend an old tree.


    3. He who doesn't look ahead, gets left behind.


  6. Speaker 6


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1.  There are no shortcuts to the top of the palm tree.


    2.  Better an hour of thought than a year of regret.


    3. The more you give, the more you receive.



  7. Speaker 7


    Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat. Once the student has received the topics, you may begin the timer. 


    1.  Do bad and remember… Do good and forget.


    2.  A wise man changes his mind… A fool never will.


    3. Without the support of small pebbles, a big rock cannot be stable.