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Small groups, real speeches, and the Grand Finale that ends every level. Filter by what you want to see.

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A DSI student presenting into a microphone beside the Destination Speech Improvement banner at a DSITalks showcase — Every participant presents at DSITalks. Not one representative — all of them.

Best Speaker, DSITalks-23 — Dhaniya Venkat

The independent judging panel scoring speeches at a DSITalks contest — Best Prepared Speaker is chosen by independent judges, not by the coach.

Children and parents seated in the audience at a DSITalks showcase, applauding — Real stakes: a live audience of families.

A DSI student shaking hands with a judge while receiving a Youth Leadership Workshop certificate, Coach Priya looking on — Certificates of Completion are handed over at the Grand Finale.

A DSI student mid-speech at the microphone, the DSITalks agenda projected behind her — Twelve weeks of practice, in one moment.

A full DSI cohort with their certificates, standing beneath the Destination Speech Improvement Youth Leadership Workshops banner — A whole workshop, certificates in hand.

The view from the front of the room at a DSI event — a young speaker facing a hall full of families — What a child sees from the front of the room.

A full impromptu session, Competence level

DSI events are run like formal, corporate-styled meetings.

Coach Priya Sundararaman speaking with a headset microphone in front of a projected DSITalks June 2018 agenda slide — Every finale runs to a published agenda.

A DSI student speaking into a handheld microphone in front of the projected DSITalks agenda — Each speaker gets the microphone and the room.

A young DSI speaker in a Girl Scouts sash presenting at the microphone beside a projected award slide — Students bring their own material to the stage.

Four guest judges seated at a long table with ballots and score sheets at a DSI event — Ballots, not opinions: guests judge every contest.

A group of DSI students holding certificates on and around a stage beside a hand-lettered DSI TALKS sign, with guest judges standing to the right — Certificates in hand, judges and guests alongside.

A large hall filled with rows of seated families facing speakers at the front of the room — Families fill the hall for the finale.

A six-photo collage of DSI cohorts posing with their certificates of completion at successive graduation ceremonies — Six graduating groups, certificates in hand.

A printed Our Robbinsville Schools magazine page covering Destination Speech Improvement's 13th speech show and contest, illustrated with cohort photographs — DSITalks Mar 2018, written up in Our Robbinsville Schools.

Coach Priya standing on a small stage at a microphone, addressing rows of seated children and parents beside the DSI banner — Every session opens from the front of the room.

A DSI workshop in progress, a student speaking at the microphone while children and parents watch from rows of chairs — Small room, full attention, every child speaks.

A view from the coach's table as a DSI student presents at the microphone to a seated audience — The coach evaluates from the floor while a student presents.

DSI students, coaches and a local official gathered outdoors beside the Destination Speech Improvement youth leadership workshops banner — DSI at a local community event, banner and all.

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