Past Speech Contest Winners
Members who have reached the pinnacle at District 101’s speech contests.
Annual Conference Speech Contests
| Year | Winners |
| 2025 | π₯ First Place: Yiming Pan | π₯ Second Place: Marq Lipton | π₯ Third Place: Santosh Kumar |
| 2024 | π₯ First Place: Sara IvieΒ | π₯ Second Place: Jennifer Noble | π₯ Third Place: Bob Gulino |
| 2023 | π₯ First Place: Yuki AscueΒ | π₯ Second Place: Cat Nguyen | π₯ Third Place: Bryan Condy |
| 2022 | π₯ First Place: Lindy MacLaineΒ | π₯ Second Place: Michael Hanes | π₯ Third Place: Ajay Hiraskar |
| 2021 | π₯ First Place: Cat NguyenΒ | π₯ Second Place: Ravi Adusimilli | π₯ Third Place: Gordon Mattingly |
| 2020 | π₯ First Place: Nish Neelalojanan, Fair Oaks Club |
| 2019 | π₯ First Place: Janet Hebert, Almaden Valley Orators Club |
| 2018 | π₯ First Place: Gopi Kallayil, Iβm Feeling Chatty |
| 2017 | π₯ First Place: Barbara Busch, Sunnyvale Speakeasies |
| Year | Winners |
| 2024 | π₯ First Place: Nish Neelalojanan | π₯ Second Place: Dustin Kroeker | π₯ Third Place: Lalitha Natraj |
| 2022 | π₯ First Place: Marcia Davis-Cannon | π₯ Second Place: Declan Shalvey | π₯ Third Place: Gayathri Natarajan |
| 2019 | π₯ First Place: Elaine Lung, Silicon Valley Storytellers |
| 2017 | π₯ First Place: Brad Jacobs, Next Step |
| 2016 | π₯ First Place: Matthew Stevenson, SynapTalks |
| Year | Winners |
| 2025 | π₯ First Place: Avishek Gyanchand | π₯ Second Place: Tatyana Margolina | π₯ Third Place: Alyson King |
| 2023 | π₯ First Place: Marcia Davis-Cannon | π₯ Second Place: Doris Tse | π₯ Third Place: Yarleen Kourt |
| 2021 | π₯ First Place: David Singer | π₯ Second Place: Janet Janssen | π₯ Third Place: Haixia Yu |
| 2017 | π₯ First Place: Sanjana Das, Cadence AHgorithms Club |
| Year | Winners |
| 2020 | π₯ Dennis Dawson, Big Basin Toastmasters |
| 2018 | π₯ First Place: Andy Keates, TGIF Management |
| Year | Winners |
| 2025 | π₯ First Place: Vidya Bhandarkar | π₯ Second Place: Kapil Bodkhe |
Fall Fusion Contests
| Year | Winners |
| 2020 | π₯ First Place: Renee Yao | π₯ Second Place: Lin Chao | π₯ Third Place: Cat Nguyen |
| Year | Winners |
| 2021 | π₯ First Place: Birgit Starmanns | π₯ Second Place: Nish Neelalojanan | π₯ Third Place: Megan Mayer |
| 2019 | π₯ First Place: Alyson King | π₯ Second Place: Benjamin Shaibu | π₯ Third Place: Eric Szczerbaty |
| 2018 | π₯ First Place: Alyson King |
| Year | Winners |
| 2025 | π₯ First Place: Sudharshan AnandanΒ | π₯ Second Place: Santosh Kumar | π₯ Third Place: Shoba Rao |
| 2022 | π₯ First Place: Eleanor Shalvey | π₯ Second Place: Lindy MacLaine |
| 2021 | π₯ First Place: Gordon Mattingly Β | π₯ Second Place: Jingyu Tan | π₯ Third Place: Karen Cornwell |
| 2020 | π₯ First Place: Declan ShalveyΒ | π₯ Second Place: Lisa Bennett | π₯ Third Place: Gordon Mattingly |
| 2019 | π₯ First Place: Dennis DawsonΒ | π₯ Second Place: Lynn Stuart | π₯ Third Place: Pradeep Gandhi |
| 2018 | π₯ First Place: Doris Tse |
| Year | Winners |
| 2021 | π₯ First Place: Kim Amundson | π₯ Second Place: Bastian Reimuth | π₯ Third Place: Tejas Sathe |
| 2020 | π₯ First Place: Nishant Chandrashekar | π₯ Second Place: Chie Kawahara | π₯ Third Place: Dan Merget |