SPEAKER'S IDOL 2021
Presented Live across Social Media on May 13, 2021 at 1pm. Speaker's Idol has become a widely recognized public speaking competition for students in Ontario and beyond. This year we reached students from across Canada by moving the competition online. While commenting on a quote by Simon Wiesenthal, students connect these words to their vision of how to improve their communities and the world around them. Simon Wiesenthal believed that future generations needed to learn from the past, and therefore, the onus is for the next generation of student leaders to look deep into the past in order to improve the world. Winners of Speaker's Idol have been students who understand that to make the world a better place, they must take action.
Speeches will include Simon Wiesenthal's quote, "The history of humankind is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition,” while sharing thoughts on how to create positive change in the world.