4th Annual Speech Competition held at Dubai Women’s College

 Around 15 of Dubai Women’s College (DWC) students from various academic departments recently took part in DWC 4th Annual Speech Competition which was aimed at encouraging students to actively participate in voicing their opinions on various pre-selected subjects.  DWC being an HCT flagship institution for over 20 years, organizes such annual events to inspire young Emirati women to become world leaders.
Participants were divided into two categories. Category A started the event with 2 Higher Foundations and 2 Diploma students taking the stage to deliver their views and opinions on subjects ranging from ‘Blackberries’ to ‘Hold on to life’.  The panel of 3 judges placed their votes and Maytha Sultan from Higher Foundations emerged as the winner with her talk on ‘A Boy’s Dream’.  Her fellow Higher Foundations participant, Alia Ahmed was the runner up with her take on ‘Hold on to Life’.
10 Higher Diploma and Bachelor students, representing Category B, were keen to walk up to the podium with HD2 well represented this year.  The well-delivered speeches gave the audience plenty to think about as they focused on subjects as diverse as ‘The value of money’, ‘The Bermuda Triangle’ and ‘Human Trafficking’.  After a hard fought race, the contested position of runner-up was tied with Marwa Hussain with her speech on ‘The value of Money’ and Meaad Ali Abdullah with her speech on ‘Body Language’.   The judges were unanimous in their choice of winners in yet another tie with Asma Ahmed and her speech entitled ‘The Law of Attraction’.
Manal Yousuf Mohamed, Year 2 Business student whose speech was based on ‘Widows’ said, “I felt terrified taking part in the speech competition, because it was my first time to stand in front of a huge audience and judges, but then again there’s a first time for everything so I knew I had to be brave. By the end of my speech I enjoyed it and it is definitely something I would love to do again. I chose this topic for my research for an English report and it was really interesting to do it.  I was shocked to know how widows were treated around the world and decided to share it with everyone through the speech.” Sarah Coldwell, DWC English Faculty commented after the competition, “I was very impressed with all of the speeches today, I can’t imagine ever being able to speak in a foreign language so effortlessly and fluently about such difficult themes!”