2nd Annual BS Contest: THE RESULTS ARE IN!

Congrats to:

1st place: Edoardo Policano
2nd place: Shawna Kaufman
3rd place: Aubrey Levy

for showing the world they can "fake it till they make it" at our 2nd annual BS contest on 2/9/10.

144 beers
70 attendees
22 BS'ers
3 winners
1 great club

2nd Annual BS Contest: 1st Place Winner-- $150 to Edoardo Policano with "MicroBlogging"

2nd Annual BS Contest: 2nd Place Winner-- $100 to Shawna Kaufman with "Rope"

2nd Annual BS Contest: 3rd Place Winner-- $50 to Aubrey Levy with "Creative Juice"

11/18 Lecture by "Confessions of a Public Speaker" author Scott Berkun

Bestselling author, Scott Berkun gives tips on how to avoid zombie audiences during his 11/18 "Confessions of a Public Speaker" talk to a crowd of 70 CBS students.

Warren Buffett pledges $1.5M to Columbia MBA's with Public Speaking Abilities

10/13 Peer-to-Peer Workshop on Powerpoint presentation delivery

Our own Howard Umehara assumes the role of librarian Mrs. Nois an energetic talk during our October 13th peer-to-peer presentation workshop.

Professor Wadhwa shares his personal secrets to public speaking success

Professor Wadhwa shares his personal secrets to public speaking success at our 9/29 event.

PSA's Kickoff Improv Speeches Event Clip

Jason Chekofsky '11 explains why pink is the best color.
(after being given 3 seconds to collect his thoughts)

Amazing TED speech about how we read others' minds

Speech reel for Association Day 9/11

Sign-up link for Association Day

Hello CBS! As the '09-'10 president of the Public Speaking Association, I am happy to meet all of our new 2011 brothers and sisters and welcome back the class of 2010.

For both existing members and prospectives, I hope you can stop by our table during Association Day tomorrow (9/11) from 3-5PM to meet our new leadership team and hear about the exciting events line-up we are diligently planning.

Feel free to leave your name and email address here:

http://bit.ly/psa_asso

so that we can add you to our list and invite you to our first event (Improv Speeches) on Tuesday, 9/15 from 12:30-2 in Uris 307.

-Greg Bateman