Division Contests

2 weeks ago, I not only attended, but chaired the Southern Division Contest.
While I chaired the event, it would not have gone off without some amazing help! Thank-you to all those who helped, especially those I can not name!
A big thanks to 4 key roles:
1) Jennifer Costello, for a professional and entertaining job as Toastmaster
2) Mike Pierson, for his calm and personality as Chief Judge
3) Our Test Speaker - Terry Smith
4) Mary Hooper for Agendas, labels and support
I really appreciate those who were willing and able to change roles as needed to make everything work so well!

I was really very rewarding to see how a number of contestants tuned their performance between the area contests and the division contest. It is tough to see only 1 from each contest picked to go on to the District Level.

Last weekend, I was up in the Lakewood area in the morning, in my role as Secretary of Geocaching Colorado, helping out with a Girl Scout day at Dinosaur Ridge. The fed perfectly into going to the Eastern Division Contest just a few minutes away. I had a feeling it would be good if I could be there. It was very rewarding to be able to be there to see how other contestants approached the 2 contests.

This past weekend, I was able to attend 2 more Division Contests! It was not that far to go to see 2 more division contests: Denver and Metro Division were holding their contests the same day, and the same location! What a great way to have some high energy and synergy, while saving transportation costs!

It is a shame that the more distant Divisions, like Southern, can not take part at this level. There is only one solution: our Southern Division will just have to grow so big, that we will have to split into 2 divisions, and then we can have 2 Division Contests on the same day!