Festival Managers
Speech Contests
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 | Pastel Green |
| Extemporaneous | Pastel Gray |
| Farrago | Pastel Goldenrod |
| Group Interpretive Reading Readers Theatre (ML) | Pastel Salmon |
| Impromptu | Cosmic Orange |
| Informative | Lunar Blue |
| Moments in History | Pulsar Pink |
| Oratory (Persuasive ML) | Terra Green |
| Play Acting | Pastel Canary |
| Poetry Reading | Pastel Orchid |
| Prose Reading | Pastel Blue |
| Public Address | Sunburst Yellow |
| Radio News Reporting | Pastel Green |
| Solo Acting | Pastel Ivory |
| Special Occasion | Cosmic Orange |
| Storytelling | Pastel Pink |
| Adjudicator Guidelines | Re-Entry Red |
| 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). Enroll: Speech Contest Management.
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: