Tropicana Public Speaking - What How and Why

The Tropicana Public Speaking speech contest explained at Speech Topics Help. This famous contest is really an excellent concept and great way to instill self confidence and strong communication skills in children who will then have a greater chance of maintaining those traits in their adult lives.





Especially for young people who are afraid of public speaking it can be an eye-opener.

Sponsored by the Tropicana corporation famous for its delicious orange juice, the Tropicana Public Speaking contest is held for children in Florida in grades 4 through 6. Each year, this contest helps thousands of children learn how to properly write and deliver a public speech between two and three minutes long on so-called special tropicana speech topics. They have to come up with ideas and speech examples themselves, teachers of course may help them.

Hundreds of thousands of children throughout 46 Florida counties have participated in the contest through the years. With lots of success!

All children who participate are given a Certificate of Participation in a different color that indicates their grade level. The organizing committee also provides:

• One camp scholarship for the 6th grade county-level winner
• and one scholarship for the elementary (grade 4 or 5) county-level winner.

• classroom winners of ribbons (first through third place)
• school-wide winners of medallions (first through third place)
• and first through third place plaques plus a roving trophy on the county level.

In addition to the contest's sponsorship by Tropicana, it is administered by the Miami-Dade County/University of Florida 4-H Youth Development Program.