If not, thank the committee and return to your seat. Modified instructions for speaking to the legislative committee during the Project Citizen State Competition Each class will be assigned to a hearing room for the entire competition. Those students should take their seats at either front tables where there are microphones located or speak from the front row seats where the audience is located. The chair and members of the committee will introduce themselves and than the students should introduce themselves individually and identify which school they represent. The chair will then ask the group to begin their testimony on their area of the Research Project.
Students have four minutes to give their prepared testimony.
Students may use notes or note cards and every student should participate during the testimony phase. A timer will be on hand and will give the unit a one minute warning using flash At the end of the four minutes, the timer will call time. If a student is in the middle of a sentence, the judges will allow the student to complete his or her comment. Following the four minutes of prepared testimony, the judges will begin six minutes of follow-up questions. The questions may or may not be directed toward a particular student, so all students should be prepared to respond to the question.