Creative Public Speaking Tournaments

Our public speaking tournaments were developed as a charitable initiative while working with students in China when they went into lockdown in January 2020, to give them something productive and creative to do while cooped up at home. It was a huge hit with the kids, parents and teachers - providing an opportunity to learn public speaking skills, tackling big ideas, and having fun in the process. Since then we have been conducting contests with students in Africa, China, India, Korea, and the US.

Before and After Video

Check out this before and after video of some of our finalists from the 2020 Kothari competition.

The before examples are the participants’ initial submissions and the after examples demonstrate the improvements participants made after receiving feedback and on-on-one training from our mentors.