Project Description Country: USA Location: Phoenix Total Budget: $18,620 Area of Focus: Basic education and literacy Activity Type: Education: General Summary: 2025 Annual Rotary Speech Contest Phoenix Rotary l00's Speech Contest will be held this school year (2024- 2025) within the House of Representatives Building at the State Capital. This will be our 94th year, in what we believe is the longest running speech contest in Arizona. Invitations are sent to High Schools throughout Arizona and our contest is open to any high-school aged student within our state. Over the last few years, we have had students participate from throughout the Metro Phoenix area, as well as Tucson, Flagstaff, Oro Valley, Prescott and Cottonwood. Several students were home-schooled. Last year, we had over 80 contestants and their coaches participate, and we had approximately 40 volunteers (mostly Rotarians) run the contest. All the contestants give their speeches in the morning with teams of Rotarians acting as judges and timekeepers (we have a short training prior to the speeches so the volunteers know what to do). Finalists give their afternoon speeches from the Chamber within the House of Representatives. The following week, the four Upper Division Finalists give one last speech in front of our Rotary Club during our Friday lunch meeting, and then we hand out trophies and College Scholarships to the top 8 participants (two Freshmen, two Sophomores, two Juniors and two Seniors). The costs for this project are significant and include college scholarships/trophies for the winners and two Coaches A wards, food for the participants and volunteers at the House of Representatives, and room rental and lunch for the Finals and Awards Ceremony. Phoenix Rotary 100 would appreciate participation by District 5495, which would be acknowledged in the project publicity and during the awards ceremony. Project Contact Person District: 5495 Rotary Club of: Phoenix Primary Contact: Fred Goldman Email: fred@feg-pe.com Project Status Paid This project is "Paid". This means that the funds from the district have been issued. This project is now being ready for implementation. When this is done, a report needs to be uploaded on the project page and the "Reported" button needs to be clicked, then the status of the project will be changed to "Reported". Project listed for the 2024-25 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Phoenix (5495) 20-Jun-24 $16,620 $2,000 $18,620 Total $16,620 $2,000 $18,620

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [20-Jun-24] 2025 Speech Contest Budget [20-Jun-24] Signed MOU

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History Log Entries 20-Jun-24 by Fred Goldman System Entry: Creation of project page. 22-Jun-24 by Tom McLarty System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 22-Jun-24 by Conrad Heede System Entry: Project signed by Thomas Mclarty. 23-Jun-24 by Conrad Heede System Entry: Project signed by Fred Goldman. 23-Jun-24 by Conrad Heede System Entry: Project signed by Fred Goldman. 23-Jun-24 by Conrad Heede System Entry: Project signed by Dan Capote. 24-Jun-24 by Ted Haynes System Entry: Project signed by Ted Haynes. 24-Jun-24 by Conrad Heede System Entry: Project signed by Mike Stohler. 25-Jun-24 by Conrad Heede System Entry: Project signed by Kathy Mitchell. 25-Jun-24 by Conrad Heede System Entry: Project signed by Kathy Mitchell. 14-Jul-24 by Tom McLarty The district grant process is progressing but is delayed somewhat due to the second round of grant submissions. We will notify you as soon as the grant funds are available. Reminder: No money should be spent until the funds are sent to the clubs. No receipts for spending prior to that can be accepted. 2-Aug-24 by Fred Goldman We received a notification from this website that we need to add a history log entry to keep the project active. We are awaiting a decision from District 5495. 31-Aug-24 by Tom McLarty After some delay from RI our block grant was approved on Friday August 30, 2024. The funds should be transferred sometime next week. We will be changing the status on your grant to “Approved” as of that date. As has been stated several times RI will not recognize receipts dated prior to August 30, 2024. Also, PO’s and cancelled checks are not acceptable forms of documentation. Please be sure all banking information is up to date. 2-Sep-24 by Tom McLarty System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 25-Sep-24 by Tom McLarty System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer.