Festival Managers
Speech Contests
This is meant ONLY for festival managers. To register your team’s entries, please visit the Contests page in the menu above.
The WHSFA provides SpeechWire, free of charge, to all subdistricts and districts. Festivals are encouraged — but not required — to use SpeechWire to schedule and tabulate; however, all festival hosts/managers must use SpeechWire to report to contestants advancing to the next festival level.
SpeechWire Manager Instructions
SpeechWire generates schedules for each student and prints adjudicator master ballots each round with contestants pre-printed. Contest managers/hosts can enter scores as ballots are turned in, and tabulated results are reported automatically for purposes of determining advancement to the next contest level.
Materials/Evaluation SheetsPhotocopying Forms - Colors
| Categories | Color Paper |
|---|---|
| Demonstration | Green |
| Extemporaneous | Tan |
| Farrago | Gold |
| Group Interpretive Reading Readers Theatre (ML) | Salmon |
| Impromptu | Gold |
| Informative | Canary |
| Moments in History | Cherry |
| Oratory (Persuasive ML) | Pastel Blue |
| Play Acting | Canary |
| Poetry Reading | Lilac/Orchid |
| Prose Reading | Pastel Blue |
| Public Address | Salmon |
| Radio News Reporting | Green |
| Solo Acting | Ivory/Cream |
| Special Occasion | Gray |
| Storytelling | Pink |
| Adjudicator Guidelines | Turquoise |
| Ballot (SpeechWire generates) | White |
Training
We offer a free online course that will walk festival hosts/managers through the basics of what plans, preparations, and steps they need to follow to run a successful contest (including step-by-step details on using SpeechWire). Visit: WHSFA Professional Development (click “Speech Contest Management” course to enroll).
Manual Scheduling
While WHSFA provides SpeechWire, free of charge, for subdistrict and district festivals, we allow subdistricts to schedule festivals manually, provided they report results at the end through SpeechWire. Here’s a downloadable/printable guide: