Azernews.Az

By Laman Ismayilova

Azerbaijan Public Speaking Championship 2017 wrapped up in Baku last weekend.

The final event was held at the Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University, where fourteen best speakers were evaluated by the jury members.

Head of the project Kanan Mammadov, addressing the event, said that this is the fifth edition of the project and he is proud to endure this tradition.

The project aims to form and improve public speaking skills of the youth and make this championship brand.

Project consists of 3 phases:

#learn – Selected participants attended a public speaking training course by the certified World Class Speaking Coach and TED speaker, Seymur Rasulov.

#prepare –all participants prepared presentations with help of professional mentors.

#win - the finalists performed in front of wide audience. Jury delegation evaluated them.

The jury consisted of Director of Youth Inc. Alakbar Mustafayev, representatives from EBSCO Seymur Rasulov, BP- Rashad Bayramov, and PASHA Bank - Jeyhun Atayev.

Student of the Baku Engineering University Rubay Samadzadeh became the winner of the #APSC2017 with the topic “Law of attraction”.

The Public Speaking Championship was organized by “eproject” group with collaboration with “Mugan Bank”, “AAA” Public Union, “ASAN Volunteers” Youth Union, “Youth Inc.” Entrepreneurship Program, “EduHUB”

Media partners of the event are Trend.az, Day.az, Milli.az, Azernews.az

---

Laman Ismayilova is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @Lam_Ismayilova

Follow us on Twitter @AzerNewsAz