The 19th Annual All-USA High School Japanese Speech Contest to be held Sunday, June 4, 1PM(PDT) via Zoom
Live streaming will be available from the link below.
https://youtube.com/live/HrmDra2Kyh0?feature=share
The Japanese Language Scholarship Foundation will host its 19th annual Japanese Language Scholarship Foundation All-USA High School Japanese Speech Contest.
The contest will provide opportunities for young learners of Japanese to make presentations in Japanese and to inspire more students to improve their proficiency in Japanese.
It is also hoped that the contest will encourage students to further their understanding of Japan, its people, and its culture. The contest will be held remotely, online through Zoom, this year. Each participant will be logging in synchronously for this virtual event.
Speech Contest
Date: Sunday, June 4, 2023, 1 PM (Pacific Daylight Time)
Rules and Judging
- Each speech must be five minutes or less in length.
- The choice of topic is open.
- Judges will base their decisions on the content and presentation of your speech as well as interviews in Japanese with the judges after each speech presentation.
Prizes
One winner will receive a $500 scholarship and a trip to the Overseas Students’ Japanese Speech Award (JSA) contest to be held in Japan in the summer of 2023 (if not cancelled).
One runner-up will receive a $300 scholarship.
Each of the other participants will receive a $100 scholarship.
Eligibility & Application Requirements Applicants must
(1) Be one of the top three winners of a sub-national/region/state/multi-school Japanese language speech contest held in the USA between April 1, 2021 and April 30, 2022. (Each regional contest can send only one person to participate.)
(2) Provide a recommendation form completed on the applicant’s behalf by an official representative of that contest
(3) Be high school students in the spring of 2022.
(4) Not be native speakers of Japanese of have a Japanese parent (Issei)
(5) Be a citizen or a Permanent Resident of the USA. Aurora welcomes all students learning the Japanese language in the USA to enter the Aurora Speech Contest. However, in order to enter the Overseas Students’ Japanese Speech Award Contest in Japan, the student must be a citizen or a permanent resident of the USA. If the winner is not a citizen or a permanent resident of the USA, we cannot send the contest winner as a USA representative. In that case the runner-up would be eligible.
(6) Have not had more than six months of schooling in Japan after age six
(7) Not have entered an international speech contest
The 19th All-USA High School Japanese Speech Contest Contestants
- Ryan Chatchadathran / ライアン・チャッチャダスラン Clarkstown High School North, New City, NY, 12th Grade 「生かされた命を生きるということ」/ 「To Live a Given Life」
- Tianshuo Cui / ティエンショオ・ツイ Miami Palmetto Senior High School, Pinecrest, FL, 12th Grade 「私と折り紙の物語」 / 「My Journey with Origami」
- Leena Edais / リーナ・イデイス Dimond High School, Anchorage, AK, 11th Grade 「運転を学ぶ」 / 「Learning to drive」
- Joshua Jimenez / ジョシュア・ヒメネズ Northside College Preparatory High School, Chicago, IL, 11th Grade 「言語学びへの―喜び」 / 「The Joys of Learning Foreign Language」
- Casey Allen Jones / ケイシー・アレン・ジョーンズ Salinas High School, Salinas, CA, 11th Grade 「諦めないで！」 / 「Don’t Give Up!」
- Aniruddh Mahajan / アニルーッド・マハジャン Davis Senior High School, Davis, CA, 12th Grade 「花の秘密」 / 「The Secret of Flowers」
- Aidan Sisneros / エイデン・シスネロス Johnson High School, San Antonio, TX, 12th Grade 「誰かの架け橋になる」 / 「Anyone can be a Cultural Bridge」
- Olivia Rose Tomassini / オリビア・トマシニ Chaparral High School, Scottsdale, AZ, 10th Grade 「どうして美術が必要なのか」 / 「Why Art Is Essential」
- Megan Angelee Ubas Pajarito / メーガン・パハリート Notre Dame High School, Sherman Oaks, CA, 12th Grade 「ファストファッションを減らそう」 / 「How to Stop Fast Fashion」
- Zhuoru Zhou / ズル・卓如(タクニョ）・ジョ Southridge High School, Beaverton, OR, 11th Grade 「本からもらった 人生の教え」 / 「Life Value that books brought to me」
For more information please contact the Japanese Language Scholarship Foundation. E-mail: aurorafoundation@usa.net
http://www.jlsf-aurora.org/eng
http://www.jlsf-aurora.org/eng/page/speech-contest-1