...but it can be at Gavel Club!
Registration is closed for this year. Check back May 2024!
If you're looking for a place for your 6th to 12th grade student to improve their public speaking skills, you've come to the right place! We are Queen City Gavel Club, a junior Toastmasters Club in the Charlotte, NC area. We truly strive to live up to the Toastmasters International club mission:
"...the mission of a Toastmasters Club is to provide a mutually supportive and positive learning environment in which every individual member has the opportunity to develop oral communication and leadership skills, which in turn foster self-confidence and personal growth."
Queen City Gavel Club is genuinely a "mutually supportive and positive learning environment." Every year we prepare teens for future job interviews, company presentations, or just a toast at a friend's wedding. We are always a supportive and positive environment, full of friendly peers. Members quickly learn fearless-speaking skills through impromptu "Table Topics", evaluating other speakers, and giving their own carefully guided and prepared speeches (generally 5-7 minutes long). After their first ten speeches, members receive the Competent Gavelier Communicator award, an excellent recognition from Toastmasters International for their college transcript or job resume. Many of us continue from there! Members can go on to receive other awards by completing Advanced Manuals, which are five-project speech guides on special speaking skills, like Storytelling and Technical Presentations manuals. Plus, students have the opportunity to run for a club office, including both President and Vice President, Sergeant at Arms, and Social Events Coordinator. These offices help a student gain vital leadership and communication skills, as well as learn Parliamentary Procedure in Executive Committee (EC) meetings - the essential meeting method used in Congress and most business meetings.
"...the mission of a Toastmasters Club is to provide a mutually supportive and positive learning environment in which every individual member has the opportunity to develop oral communication and leadership skills, which in turn foster self-confidence and personal growth."
Queen City Gavel Club is genuinely a "mutually supportive and positive learning environment." Every year we prepare teens for future job interviews, company presentations, or just a toast at a friend's wedding. We are always a supportive and positive environment, full of friendly peers. Members quickly learn fearless-speaking skills through impromptu "Table Topics", evaluating other speakers, and giving their own carefully guided and prepared speeches (generally 5-7 minutes long). After their first ten speeches, members receive the Competent Gavelier Communicator award, an excellent recognition from Toastmasters International for their college transcript or job resume. Many of us continue from there! Members can go on to receive other awards by completing Advanced Manuals, which are five-project speech guides on special speaking skills, like Storytelling and Technical Presentations manuals. Plus, students have the opportunity to run for a club office, including both President and Vice President, Sergeant at Arms, and Social Events Coordinator. These offices help a student gain vital leadership and communication skills, as well as learn Parliamentary Procedure in Executive Committee (EC) meetings - the essential meeting method used in Congress and most business meetings.
For your middle- or high-school student to become a better speaker, we would be honored if you considered Queen City Gavel Club. We are one of the best gavel clubs in Charlotte and considered to be the oldest Gavel Club in the nation, according to Toastmasters records! To learn more about us and what we do, visit our What is a Gavel Club? page. Check out our Where & When page for information on our current location, and drop us a line at our Contact Us page with any questions you might have. We're always here to answer them!
To learn more about Toastmasters and their education program, visit toastmasters.org.
To learn more about Toastmasters and their education program, visit toastmasters.org.
Have more questions about what we do or how to become a member? Visit our What is a Gavel Club? page!
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Want to become a member? See the Register page!
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