AECS 2022

"SOULS OF THE CENTURY"

Adolescence marks one of the most unforgettable phases of
our lives, which shapes each of us into who we are the next
day.

The chapter of growing up, developing, and building who we

are mostly taking place during our adolescence. However, in
that chapter, a lot of things happen to be our first(s). First
love, first school field trip, the first day of puberty, first trials,
first friendship, and first time finding our passions; reminds us of
how precious the phase of adolescence is.

Experiencing those first(s) may not always be our best, yet it’s
still remarkable, regardless.

We bring this theme up to convey our concern for

adolescence. We care a lot about their experience for
passing this moment; dreams that constantly change,
discovering our likes and dislikes, and seeking the truth about
ourselves as the ones who have experienced this chapter first.
All those feelings lead us to our future selves, teaching us
lessons we perceived during this chapter; like the name
suggests, ‘Souls of The Century’.
 SPEECH
PREFACE
AECS Speech Contest 2022 is an individual competition
where the participants convey their own original speech
according to the topic provided by the committees. The
purpose of AECS Speech Contest 2022 is to encourage the
participants to improve their public speaking skill and to gain
an inspiring experience through participating in it.
PARTICIPANTS
Participants of AECS Speech Contest 2022 consist of senior
high school and university students in Indonesia. The quota of
senior high school students is 40 participants, meanwhile the
quota of university students is 30 participants. The winners
consist of the 1st and 2nd winner for each category.
CONTEST SEQUENCE
AECS Speech Contest 2022 is divided into two rounds:
preliminary and final round. Here are the schedules of the
rounds:
Preliminary Round
The preliminary round for both senior high school and
university students will be held on August 29th, 2021 –
September 6th, 2022.
Final Round
The final round for both senior high school and university
students will be held on September 17th , 2022 on UPI.
GENERAL RULES
The participant/representative must join the virtual
technical meeting on August 28th, 2022 via Zoom
Meeting.
Participants who cannot join the technical meeting or send
a representative must tell the committee in advance, or
contact via WhatsApp on the same day as the technical
meeting if you have questions.
Each participant is not allowed to bring an outline or the
whole text during delivering speech.
Participants have to write their original speech text
without any kind of plagiarism, otherwise they will be
considered disqualified.
Participant substitution or change of name of participant is
only allowed at the technical meeting.
The participant should honor and appreciate each
adjudicator’s judgment.
The registration fee for the participant who is disqualified
or resigns is not refundable.
SPECIFIC RULES AND TECHNICAL EXECUTION
A. PRELIMINARY ROUND
Participants must select one of these following topics for
the preliminary round to be developed and delivered on
their speech.
a. For Senior High School students
i. Do you think upbringing affects adolescence?
ii. Do you think having insecurity is a bad thing? Why
or Why not?
iii. Do you believe in the power of mind?
iv. Do you think we have something to prepare for
facing adulthood?
v. Do you agree that struggle is a part of the
adolescent path of life?
b. For university students
i. Do you believe upbringing can affect mental
health/adolescence life?
ii. Do you think the environment can affect mental
health’s growth?
iii. Do you think lack and challenges help to thrive in
life?
iv. Do you think success can be defined solely by
age?
v. What struggles does someone face during a
quarter life crisis?
Participants must send their speech text for the preliminary
round along with the video submission to the link provided
in point number 7.
The speech text is submitted in .pdf with the file name
High School/Varsity*_Full Name_Speech. Below is the
format for the speech text:
Font : Times New Roman
Line spaces : 1.5
Font size : 12
Size : A4
Each participant must type his/her full name,
school/university, and the topic of the speech on the top
right of the paper.
The speech duration is 7 minutes (maximum) for senior
high school students and 10 minutes (maximum) for
university students. If the participant delivers their speech
in more than 7/10 minutes, there will be a reduction of 1
point per 5 seconds.
Participants save the video with the file name High
School/Varsity*_Full Name_Speech.
Participants must upload their video through Google Drive
first, copy the link, and submit to:
Varsity: http://bit.ly/PreliminaryVarsity
SHS: http://bit.ly/PreliminarySHS
 Participants are only allowed to submit one-take video.
Editing the video is prohibited.
There will be a reduction respectively of 10 points for
those participants who do not send the speech text and
the speech video on time.
Five participants with the highest point from each category
will advance to the final round.
B. FINAL ROUND
The name of finalists will be announced approximately 4
days after the preliminary round.
All of the finalists will be invited to a WhatsApp group for
further information regarding the topics and technical for
the final round.
Each finalist is required to deliver the speech for 5 minutes
(maximum) for senior high school and 7 minutes
(maximum) for university. If the finalist delivers their
speech in more than 3/7 minutes, there will be a
reduction of 1 point per 5 seconds.
After delivering the speech, each finalist will be given one
question from one of the adjudicators.
The finalist has 1 minute and 15 seconds (maximum) to
answer the question. If the finalist answers the question
in more than 1 minute and 15 seconds, there will be a
reduction of 1 point per 5 seconds.
C. TIMING OF THE SPEECH
Timers will show warning signal flags to assign the timing of
participants’ speech. This will be visible for the speaker.
1. A green sign
A green sign signifies that the participant has to start
his/her speech (for all rounds)
A green sign signifies that the participant has to start
answer the question asked by the adjudicators (for semi-
final and final round)
2. A yellow sign
A yellow sign signifies that the time left for delivering
speech is 1 minute left (for all rounds)
A yellow sign signifies that the time left for answering
question asked is 20 seconds left (for semi-final and final
round)
3. A red sign
A red sign signifies that the time left for delivering speech
is 20 seconds left (for all rounds), and the time keeper will
be rising the red sign during 20 seconds and dropping the
sign when the time for delivering speech is over.
A red sign signifies that the time has reached 1 minute –
i.e. the time for answering question asked by the
adjudicators is over (for semi-final and final round)
 WARN that if the participant still keeps delivering
his/her speech and keeps answering questions asked
beyond the specified time, there will be decreasing
points as many as 1 point per 5 seconds from the
total points achieved of participant’s speech
performance.
D. PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
For both preliminary and final round, each participant must:
1. Wear a school uniform or alma mater jacket for university
students.
2. Keep their tidy and clean appearance.

ASSESSMENT OF SCORING
The assessments of scoring are based on three categories
which are:
Content (speech development, effectiveness, speech
value);
Delivery (physical, voice, manner);
Language (appropriateness and correctness).
RULES APPLICABILITY
These rules are applied to all participants of AECS Speech
Contest 2022. These rules may not be supplanted or modified
except by the authorized committee. All participants should
obey the rules determined by the committee.
 STORYTELLING
GENERAL CONDITION
This competition is open for Junior and Senior High School
students or equivalent in Java Island.
This competition will be held online from August 29th until
September 6th for the Preliminary round, and offline on
September 17th for the final round.
Contestants are individuals.
Representatives for each school will be 2 people
maximum.
Participants are limited to 30 persons for junior high
school and 35 persons for senior high school.
Winners consist of the 1st and 2nd for each category.
The participants/representatives shall join the virtual
technical meeting on the day before the preliminary round
via Zoom meeting.
The registration fee is not refundable.
SPECIFIC CONDITIONS
To be eligible to compete, each participant must::
Be enrolled in junior or senior high school by showing the
student’s identity card at the time of registration.
The video and the script (PDF) for the preliminary round
must firstly be submitted to each participant's Google
Drive and then send the link to Google Form.
TECHNICAL CONDITIONS
The storytelling competition consists of 2 rounds for Junior
High School and Senior High School (preliminary and final
round).
Participants are allowed to perform either an or original
rendition of Indonesian Folklore or their own story based
on provided themes.
Participants are highly encouraged to create their own
stories based on their own creativity, imagination, context,
and originality.
Participants are given all the freedom to develop the
story as creatively as possible.
In order to create a good story, the participants are highly
recommended to find references related to the themes
mentioned.
It is not allowed for the participants to bring their script or
the outline of the performed story whilst taking the video.
After performing in the preliminary round, 5 Junior High
and 5 Senior High participants with the highest scores will
be chosen as finalists.
Assessment will be conducted based on two categories,
namely Plot Development (Creativity, plot. and
characterization) and stage performance (Audience
mastery, property, intonation, and voice).
 The evaluation starts from number 50-100 for each
category.
The decisions of the judges are absolute and inviolable.
Participant must submit their script in PDF to Google Drive
with the following conditions:
The text must be typed in Times New Roman, 12 in
font size, 1.5 spaced, on A4 paper.
The text must be entitled with a font size of 14.
Do put the participant’s name and school of origin, on
the right top of the paper, while the title of the story is
on the center of the paper.
COMPETITION CONDITIONS
Participants are allowed to wear costumes to suit the
story. The costumes worn by the participants must be
culturally and normatively appropriate. In other words, it
is not allowed too much skin. Therefore, the skirt/pants
must not be more than 5 centimeters above the knee.
Participants are not allowed to withdraw from the match.
Any substitution of participants or name changes are only
allowed at the technical meeting.
This provision is absolute and inviolable.
Other things that are not listed will be determined by the
committee based on propriety.
PRELIMINARY ROUND
The theme for the preliminary round of the Junior High
School category is Adolescents: The World is Our
Playground.
The theme for the preliminary round of the Senior High
School is My First Time Being Alive.
Upload the video to Google Form. If the size of the video
exceeds the size limit, the participants are expected to
upload the video and the script (PDF) through their
Google Drive first, copy the link and send the link to
bit.ly/PreliminaryJHS for Junior High School participants,
and bit.ly/PreliminarySHS for Senior High School
participants.
The video must include all the participants' movements
and show at least ¾ of the body.
The participants are only allowed to upload a one-take
video. (editing the video is prohibited).
The video and the script submission for the preliminary
round start from August 29th until September 6th.
Those who do not upload the video before September
6th will be disqualified.
FINAL ROUND
The theme for the final round of Junior and Senior High
School will be given to the finalist after the finalists have
been announced, approximately four days after the
preliminary round is over.
All finalists will be invited to either WhatsApp or Line
group by the committee.
 POETRY READING
GENERAL RULES
This competition is open for Junior and Senior High School
students or equivalent in Java Island.
The participants are individuals.
The maximum number of participants from each school is
limited to two (2) participants. However, if a school has
more than two (2) participants, they will be placed in the
waiting list.
The maximum number of participants in the competition is
30 participants for Junior High School and 40 participants
for Senior High school.
The winners consist of the Champion and the Runner-up.
The participants must attend the virtual technical meeting
via Zoom Meeting on August 28th before the preliminary
round starts.
Participants who are unable to attend the virtual technical
meeting can appoint a representative for the meeting with
conditions as listed below:
Participants have to confirm their absence to the
committee with a reasonable excuse.
Participants will be considered to have agreed and
understood the techniques of the competition.
SPECIFIC RULES
The competition is open for Junior and Senior High School
students or its equivalent in all provinces in Indonesia.
During the technical meeting, participants must choose
one of the poems that has been provided by the
committee to be read in the preliminary round.
The choice of poems are as follows:
Junior High School/Equivalent:
Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night
--Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,

Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright

Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,

And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,

Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

World of The Future, We Thirsted

--Naomi Shihab Nye
Stripped of a sense of well-being,
we downed our water from small disposable bottles.
Casting the plastic to streetside,
we poured high-potency energy tonics or Coke
down our throats, because this time in history
had sapped us so thoroughly and
we were desperate.
Straws, plastic caps, crushed cans,
in a three-block walk you could fill a sack.
As if we could replenish spirits quickly,
pitching containers without remorse
—who did we imagine would pick them up?
What did we really know of plastic spirals in the sea
bigger than whole countries,
we had never swirled in one ourselves,
as a fish might do, a sea urchin, a whole family of eels,
did we wish to be invincible, using what we wanted,
discarding what we didn’t, as in wars,
whole cities and nations crumpled
after our tanks and big guns pull out?

How long does it take to be thirsty again?

We were so lonely in the streets though
all the small houses still had noses, mouths,
eyes from which we might peer, as our fellow-
citizens walk their dogs, pause helplessly as the dogs
circle trees, tip their heads back for a long slow slug
of water or tea, and never fear, never fear.
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me
--Maya Angelou
Shadows on the wall
Noises down the hall
Life doesn't frighten me at all

Bad dogs barking loud

Big ghosts in a cloud
Life doesn't frighten me at all

Mean old Mother Goose

Lions on the loose
They don't frighten me at all

Dragons breathing flame

On my counterpane
That doesn't frighten me at all.

I go boo
Make them shoo
I make fun
Way they run
I won't cry
So they fly
I just smile
They go wild
Life doesn't frighten me at all.

Tough guys fight

All alone at night
Life doesn't frighten me at all.

Panthers in the park

Strangers in the dark
No, they don't frighten me at all.

That new classroom where

Boys all pull my hair
(Kissy little girls
With their hair in curls)
They don't frighten me at all.

Don't show me frogs and snakes

And listen for my scream,
If I'm afraid at all
It's only in my dreams.

I've got a magic charm

That I keep up my sleeve
I can walk the ocean floor
And never have to breathe.
Life doesn't frighten me at all
Not at all
Not at all.

Life doesn't frighten me at all.

Be The Best Of Whatever You Are

--Douglas Malloch
If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill,
Be a scrub in the valley — but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush if you can't be a tree.

If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass,

And some highway happier make;
If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass —
But the liveliest bass in the lake!

We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew,

There's something for all of us here,
There's big work to do, and there's lesser to do,
And the task you must do is the near.
If you can't be a highway then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun be a star;
It isn't by size that you win or you fail —
Be the best of whatever you are!

The Carnival is Coming to Town

--Mark Kelley
I've heard the local gossip
I've seen it on the tube
I've heard they want to set up shop
They're looking for a rube
Rolling down the valley road
With their tigers and their clowns
Cloaked in magic's mystery
The carnival is comin' to town

There's a whisper in the moonlight

There's aroma in the air
We've heard about the slight of hand
That plays on love's despair
The tickets for the ferris wheel
That goes 'round and 'round and 'round
Are free to all who rode before
The carnival is comin' to town
We've seen them in the desert
We've seen them by the sea
They're popping up in parking lots
Giving rides for free
They know if they're hear long enough
We'll surely all come 'round
Flags and lights and marching bands
The carnival is comin' to town

They've been 'round here forever

Like spirits in the woods
Hiding in the shadows
Until the time seems good
For a fee they'll change your world
They'll give you smiles for frowns
Magic rabbits pulled from hats
The carnival is comin' to town

So
Don't you turn your eyes away
The curtain's rising soon
With elephants and dancing bears
A trapeze 'cross the moon
The gypsy girl will read your mind
Will lift you off the ground
Dizzy, dazzling double talk
The carnival is comin'
The carnival is comin'
Yes
The carnival is a' comin' to town

Senior High School/Equivalent:

The Road Not Taken
—Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

The Second Coming

—William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Keep Going
–Edgar Guest
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must—but don’t you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don’t give up, though the pace seems slow—
You may succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man,
Often the struggler has given up
When he might have captured the victor’s cup,
And he learned too late, when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out—

The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit—
It’s when things seem worst that you mustn’t quit.

A Century Later
--Imtiaz Dharker
The school-bell is a call to battle,
every step to class, a step into the firing-line.
Here is the target, fine skin at the temple,
cheek still rounded from being fifteen.

Surrendered, surrounded, she

takes the bullet in the head
and walks on. The missile cuts
a pathway in her mind, to an orchard
in full bloom, a field humming under the sun,
its lap open and full of poppies.

This girl has won

the right to be ordinary,

wear bangles to a wedding, paint her fingernails,

go to school. Bullet, she says, you are stupid.
You have failed. You cannot kill a book
or the buzzing in it.

A murmur, a swarm. Behind her, one by one,

the schoolgirls are standing up
to take their places on the front line.

From Blossoms
--Li-Young Lee
From blossoms comes
this brown paper bag of peaches
we bought from the boy
at the bend in the road where we turned toward
signs painted Peaches.
From laden boughs, from hands,
from sweet fellowship in the bins,
comes nectar at the roadside, succulent
peaches we devour, dusty skin and all,
comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.

O, to take what we love inside,

to carry within us an orchard, to eat
not only the skin, but the shade,
not only the sugar, but the days, to hold
the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into
the round jubilance of peach.

There are days we live

as if death were nowhere
in the background; from joy
to joy to joy, from wing to wing,
from blossom to blossom to
impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.
Participants have to send their poetry reading one-take
video to the link that provide for the preliminary round
starting from August 30th – September 5th.
For the videos of the preliminary round, participants may
bring a note of their poems but the note must not be read
constantly.
Participants are expected to upload the video to their
own Google Drive, share the video by allowing link
sharing, and send the link to:
http://bit.ly/PreliminarySHS
http://bit.ly/PreliminaryJHS
with video format on drive:
High School/Junior High School_Full
Name_Poetry Reading_Title
Participants will be reminded to send their preliminary
round video the day before the due date by the
committee. The due date is on September 6th.
If the participant has not yet uploaded their video without
a clear notice until September 6th, the participant will be
disqualified from the competition and the registration fee
will not be refundable.
The maximum duration of the video for the preliminary
round is six (6) minutes for Junior High School and eight
(8) minutes for Senior High School. If the video exceeds
the specified time limit, they will be given a penalty of
two (2) points reduction for every ten (10) seconds
increments.
The FINAL ROUND will be held with following provisions:
The finalist will be announcing on September 11th
The final round for poetry reading will be on
September 17th will be held offline in UPI Bumi
Siliwangi Campus
Five participants with the highest score from each
category will advance to the Final Round which will
be announced after the Preliminary Round is
completed.
Finalist would be writing their own poem and recite in
the final round.
Participants bring the script and give it to the judges
before performances.
Poetry Reading for Junior High School will be
conducted for seven (7) minutes.
Poetry Reading for Senior High School will be
conducted for nine (9) minutes.
The finalist will be invited by the committee to join
WhatsApp group for the further information.
The queue numbers for all the finalists will be drawn a
day before the final round via WhatsApp group.
The judges will give the finalists one questions (from
one judge) related to the finalists’ understanding of the
poem that they read after their performance.
The finalists will be given one (1) minute 15 seconds to
answer one question.
A bell will be rung for the finalists to start answering.
The second bell will be rung after 30 seconds have
passed.
The third bell will be rung to signal that the time is
out.
If the finalists exceed the specified time limit, the
finalists will be given additional time with a penalty of
one (1) point reduction for every five (5) seconds
increments.
Participants may bring a note of their original poem
but must not be read constantly.
Participants must send their text own poem for the
final round to prelim.aecs2022@gmail.com starting
September 12th – September 15th.
The poem text is submitted in .pdf with the file name
High School/Junior High School_Full
Name_Poetry Reading_Title. Below is the format
for the poem text:
Font : Times New Roman
Line spaces : 1,5
Font Size : 12
Size : A4
Participants bring the scripts of their own poem
and give it to the judges before performances.
Timing For Final Round
The timing for the final round will be marked with a bell
sound used as signals.
First bell (Green flag): finalists may begin reading.
Second bell (Yellow flag): the time has reached three
(3) minutes for Junior High School and four (4) minutes
for Senior High School.
Third bell (Red Flag): the time is out.

ASSESSMENT
Assessment will be based on several criteria listed below,
which are:
Preliminary Round
Reader’s engagement with the poem (weight 25 %).
Voice and articulation (weight 25 %).
Pronunciation (weight 25 %).
Dramatic appropriateness (weight 15 %).
Audio and visual media (weight 10%).
Final Round
Performance
Physical presence (maximum score 10).
Voice and articulation (maximum score 20).
Pronunciation (maximum score 20).
Evidence of understanding (maximum score 10).
Interpretation (maximum score 20).
Overall performance (maximum score 20).

Creative Writing
Idea (weight 35%)
Relevance (weight 35%)
Language style (weight 30%)

CONDITIONS OF THE COMPETITION

Participants have to wear a school uniform.
Participants are not allowed to withdraw/resign from the
competition, and registration fee is not refundable.
Substitution of participants or a change of the name is
permitted only during the technical meeting.
The provision is absolute and inviolable.
The committee will determine other things that are not
listed above
 NEWSCASTING
PREFACE
Newscasting is a competition where participants will deliver
news as professional anchors on television. This competition
has two rounds with different content in each round (News
Reading and Weather Forecast in Preliminary Round and
News Report On the Spot in Final Round). The maximum
duration for each participant’s performance is 8 minutes for the
Preliminary Round (5 minutes for news reading and 3 minutes
for weather forecast) and 7 minutes for the Final Round.

PARTICIPANTS
1. The participants consist of 30 junior high school students
and 30 senior high school students.
2. The competition is open to junior and senior high school
students in Indonesia.

COMPETITION SEQUENCES
This competition has two rounds with different content in
each round.
1. Preliminary Round
News Reading
Weather Forecast
2. Final Round
News Report On the Spot
 Note:
5 participants with the highest score in the Preliminary
Round will proceed to the Final Round.
There will only be two winning categories for each
grade ( 1st (Winner) and 2nd (Runner-up)

GENERAL RULES
Every participant in this competition must be a junior or
senior high school student.
The participants compete individually.
Every participant should come to every meeting
punctually. We do not compromise with any tardiness.
There will be a reduction of 10 points for participants who
join the meeting late.
Every participant should adhere to the strict rules of
clothing made for this competition (for details, see
specific rules); failure to act accordingly will lead to a
reduction of 10 points.
Every participant/representative must attend the Technical
Meeting (see specific rules).
The maximum duration for senior high school participants’
performance is 8 minutes for the Preliminary Round (5
minutes for news reading and 3 minutes for weather
forecast) and 7 minutes for the Final Round. Incompliance
with the duration of the performance will result in a
reduction of 10 points.
 The maximum duration for junior high school participant’s
performance is 6 minutes for the Preliminary Round (4
minutes for news reading and 2 minutes for weather
forecast) and 5 minutes for the Final Round. Incompliance
with the duration of the performance will result in a
reduction of 10 points.
All participants should respect and appreciate every
judgment from the adjudicators.
The registration fee for the participant who is disqualified
or resigns is not refundable.

TECHNICAL MEETING
The Technical Meeting will be held on August 28th, 2022
(online).
Participants must attend the Technical Meeting or send a
representative to take participants’ number.
Participants who cannot attend and send a representative
must tell the committee in advance.
Participants who cannot attend the technical meeting are
presumed to understand all the technical information of
the competition.
Participant substitution or change of name of the
participant is only allowed at the technical meeting.
 Each participant must submit their text for the preliminary
round (soft file). The submission is due on August 28th,
2022, at 11:59 p.m. and is uploaded to a participants’
Google Drive link which will be sent after the technical
meeting. (File name: NEWSCASTING_Name_School).
Upload the text punctually; otherwise, there will be
a reduction point of as many as 10 points.
Note: the text is only submitted for the preliminary round.

PRELIMINARY ROUND
For the preliminary round, the participants are required to
record a one-take video of their performances. The videos are
uploaded to participants’ Google Drive and the link to the file
is sent to the AECS Preliminary Round form:
http://bit.ly/PreliminarySHS or http://bit.ly/PreliminaryJHS.
Please change the link-sharing option to anyone with the
link.
Materials of the Competition
The materials for the competition in this round consist of a
News Report On the Spot.
All the participants will be shown a short video from the
operator for the News Report On the Spot. And the
participants must report the phenomenon from the video
to the judges.
 The News Report On the Spot video will be given on the
preliminary announcement.
For senior high school finalists, the maximum time that will
be given is 7 minutes. The committee will give a sign to
start the performance:
The green sign is the signal for the participant to start;
The yellow sign indicates 30 seconds left for the
remaining time;
The red sign indicates that the remaining time has
ended and the participant must stop performing.
If the participants exceed the specified time limit, the
points will be decreased by 10 points per minute.
For junior high school finalists, the maximum time that will
be given is 5 minutes. The committee will give a sign to
start the performance:
The green sign is the signal for the participant to start;
The yellow sign indicates 30 seconds left for the
remaining time;
The red sign indicates that the remaining time has
ended and the participant must stop performing.
If the participants exceed the specified time limit, the points
will be decreased by 10 points per minute.
2. Attending The Meeting
The participants must attend the meeting punctually. The
name of each participant will be called three times before
they perform. If the participant is not yet present, the
participant will perform in the last turn. If the participant is still
not present in the last turn, the participant is declared to be
disqualified and the registration fee cannot be taken back.

3. Physical Appearance
Every participant must keep their appearance neat and
clean; this includes hair neatness.
A minimal use of cosmetics is allowed for the participants.
Failure to act according to the rule of clothing will lead to
a reduction of 10 points.
a. Tops
Every participant has to wear a formal shirt.
Participants are not allowed to wear a t-shirt.
It is optional to wear a blazer.
Every participant is not allowed to wear any form
of jacket; that includes a school jacket.
b. Skirt or trousers
Male participants have to wear formal trousers.
Female participants are allowed to wear formal
trousers or a formal skirt.
Every participant is not allowed to wear any kind
of jeans.
 c. Shoes
Male participants have to wear loafer shoes.
Female participants are allowed to wear loafer
shoes or pump heels.
Every participant is not allowed to wear any
sandals or sneakers.

SCORING ASPECTS
1. Assessment is based on six criteria, which are: accuracy,
fluency, performance, intonation, expression, and
pronunciation.
2. The maximum score is 100 for each assessment criterion.

Preliminary Round Scoring Criteria – Prepared News Script

51 – 60 : Inadequate
Participant often reads the script and appears to have not
practiced.
Does not include an introductory and a closing sentence,
making the audience unaware of the speaker’s main focus.
Evidence, assumption, and interpretation are unclear; the
speaker appears largely opinion-based.

61 – 70 : Adequate
Participant mostly reads the script and shows a lot of
hesitation or uncertainty.
Participant has very short introductory and closing
sentences, making the audience unaware of the speaker’s
main focus.
Evidence, assumption, and interpretation are difficult to
untangle from one another.

71 – 80 : Good
Participant faces the audience but shows some hesitation
or uncertainty.
Audiences can grab the idea of what is coming. The
introductory sentence did not clarify the main focus.
Evidence of the news content is perhaps not quite clearly
separated from assumptions and interpretation, but the
story is logical.
81 – 90 : Very Good
Participant faces the audience; most pauses & verbal
intonation are effective.
Established focus by the end of the introduction, but went
off on a tangent or two, gaining audience attention.
Some evidence, assumption, and interpretation are clearly
presented but sometimes are not clearly identified.

91 – 100 : Excellent
Participant faces the audience confidently and shows
effective pauses and verbal intonation.
Clearly and quickly established the focus of the
presentation through the introductory and closing
sentences (gained audience attention).
Evidence, assumption, and interpretation are clearly
presented and identified.

Final Round Scoring Criteria – News Report On the Spot

51 – 60 : Inadequate
Participant often reads the script and appears to have not
practiced.
Does not include an introductory and a closing sentence,
making the audiences unaware of the speaker’s main
focus.
Evidence, assumption, and interpretation are unclear; the
speaker appears largely opinion-based.
No facts are reported clearly.

61 – 70 : Adequate
Participant mostly reads the script and shows a lot of
hesitation or uncertainty.
Participant has very short introductory and closing
sentences, making the audience unaware of the speaker’s
main focus.
Evidence, assumption, and interpretation are difficult to
untangle from one another.
Very little information and facts. The facts are
questionable.

71 – 80 : Good
Participant faces the audience but shows some hesitation
or uncertainty.
 Audiences can grab the idea of what is coming. The
introductory sentence did not clarify the main focus.
Evidence of the news content is perhaps not quite clearly
separated from assumptions and interpretation, but the
story is logical.
Some facts are questionable and some information is not
related to the assigned topic.

81 – 90 : Very Good
Participant faces the audience; most pauses & verbal
intonation are effective.
Established focus by the end of the introduction, but went
off on a tangent or two, gaining audience attention.
Some evidence, assumption, and interpretation are clearly
presented but sometimes not clearly identified
Content is related to the assigned topic. The audiences
may be a little confused because the participant presents
their news unclearly.

91 – 100 : Excellent
Participant faces the audience confidently and shows
effective pauses and verbal intonation.
Clearly and quickly established the focus of the
presentation and gained audience's attention.
Evidence, assumption, and interpretation are clearly
presented and identified.
Content is clearly related to the assigned topic. The
participant’s performance gives the audience a clear
understanding of the news.
 ESSAY WRITING
GENERAL CONDITION
1. This competition is open for Senior High School students
or equivalent in Indonesia.
2. This competition will be held online from August 29th until
September 6th at 18.00 PM for the submission of the
essay.
3. Contestants are individuals.
4. Representatives for each school will be 2 people
maximum.
5. Participants are limited to 30 persons.
6. Winners consist of the 1st and 2nd place.
7. The participants/representatives shall join the virtual
technical meeting on the day before the preliminary round
via Zoom meeting.
8. The registration fee is not refundable.

SPESIFIC CONDITION
To be eligible to compete, each participant must:
1. Be enrolled in senior high school by showing the student’s
identity card at the time of registration.
TECHNICAL CONDITIONS
1. Essay Writing competition consists of 1 round for Senior
High School.
2. The essays submitted are original works that have never
been entered in any competitions and have never been
published in any media.
3. Participants must include references on the last page of
the essay.
4. All forms of cheating and plagiarism will result in a
reduction in scores, disqualification and cancellation of the
winner.
5. Essay Writing Technical Rules:
a. A4 size paper.
b. Size 12, Times New Roman font, 1.5 spacing, Justify.
c. The top, bottom, and right margins are 3 cm, and the
left margin is 4 cm.
d. File format in the form of Word Document (*.doc)
e. Does not contain elements that contain provocation,
SARA, or pornography.
f. The number of words in the essay must range from
750 words to 1500 words (not including the title,
cover and references).
g. Essays contain personal opinions that are based on
facts.
h. Use the appropriate English language.
i. If there is a foreign language and technical phrases aside
from English, then the word must be written with italic effect.
j. Must use a minimum of 2 citations.
k. Essay Submission Format:
Write the title of the file in the format: Essay_Name of
Participant_AECS 2022_School Name. Ex: Essay
Writing_Aninda Putri Gunawan_AECS 2022_SMA 100
Bandung.
The essay consists of:
Cover
Title
Introduction
Discussion
Conclusion
References
Cover:
The title is written in capital letters, Times New Roman
font, size 16, center and written using the bold effect.
Sub-themes are written under the title, Times New
Roman font, size 14, center, don't use bold.
The AECS 2022 logo is placed in the center under the
sub-theme of the essay.
AECS 2022 logo can be downloaded here:
https://bit.ly/AECS22Logo
Write the name of the participant and the origin of the
school under the logo using Times New Roman font,
size 12, center written with bold effect.
 Write AECS 2022 under the participant's identity using
capital letters, Times New Roman font, size 12, center,
using bold effects.

More details can be accessed here:

https://bit.ly/EssayCoverAECS22

Introduction
Include background on why the topic was discussed and
data can be included, statistics to support why the issue is
being discussed.
 Discussion
The content of the discussion is based on the literature or
theory read. It can also be a solution to the problems
discussed and the opinions and ideas that want to be
conveyed by the author.
Conclusion
Contains a brief summary of the results of the discussion
and conclusions.
References
Based on literature citations or sources whose data are
used in essay writing.
Book
Using APA 7th Edition
Example:
Mitchell, J.A., Thomson, M., & Coyne, R.P.
(2017). A guide to citation. London, England: My
Publisher
Journal Article
Using APA 7th Edition
Example:
Mitchell, J.A. (2017). Citation: Why is it so
important. Mendeley Journal, 67(2), 81-95
 Sources from Website
Using APA 7th Edition
Example:
Mitchell, J.A. (2017, May 21). How and when to
reference. Retrieved from
https://www.howandwhentoreference.com.
More information about APA Citation:
https://www.mendeley.com/guides/apa-citation-guide/

COMPETITION CONDITION
1. The theme of the essay is “Adolescents and Youth”.
2. The sub-themes that can be chosen by the participants
are:
The impacts of childhood upbringings on
adolescent growth
The importance of self-love for adolescent
mental health
Handling Social Pressures on Youth
3. Participants are only allowed to choose one of the sub-
themes and submit one essay.
4. Participants must sign the Originality Declaration Form.
5. The form can be downloaded from here:
https://bit.ly/DeclarationofOriginalWork
6. There is only one round for the Essay Writing Competition.
 7. Participants are not allowed to withdraw from the match.
8. Any substitution of participants or name changes are only
allowed at the technical meeting.
9. This provision is absolute and inviolable.
10. Other things that are not listed will be determined by the
committee based on propriety.

SUBMISSION MECHANISMS
1. Participants must upload the files (Essay and Declaration of
Original Work) to each Google Drive.
2. If participants do not send the originality declaration form,
the participants will be disqualified.
3. After uploading the files to each Google Drive,
participants should submit the files (in the form of Google
Drive link) to bit.ly/PreliminarySHS
4. The submission for the competition starts from August 29th
until September 6th.
5. The participants are only allowed to submit one file.
6. Those who do not upload the essay before September 6th
will be disqualified.
APPENDIX
SCORING SHEET

ESSAY SCORING RUBRIC

1. ESSAY CONTENT (35 points)
1 - 9 = Essay does not address the topic, is not in line with
the theme, the explanation is unclear, and does not give
thorough information and analysis
10 - 19 = Essay addresses the topic and the theme but is
unclear, too much information distracts the focus of the
essay, and only gives a few information and analysis
 20 - 28 = Essay somewhat addresses the topic; the theme and the
information is almost clear, some analysis is missing
29 - 35 = Essay completely addresses the topic, the theme, and
gives thorough explanation, information, and analysis.

2. ESSAY FORMAT (20 points)

1 - 5 = Participants do not follow the essay format and technical
instructions, Essay contains four or more errors in punctuation,
spelling and grammar
6 - 10 = Participants follows the essay format and technical
instructions, Essay contains three errors in punctuation, spelling,
and grammar
11 - 15 = Participants follow the essay format and technical
instructions, Essay contains no more than two errors in punctuation,
spelling, and grammar
16 - 20 = Participants follow the essay format and technical
instructions, and the essay consistently uses proper punctuation,
spelling, and grammar.

3. ARGUMENTATION (25 points)

1 - 6 = The topic is underdeveloped with no fact, detail, quotation,
and example
7 - 12 = The topic is somewhat developed with limited facts,
details, quotations, examples
13 - 20 = The topic is developed with several relevant facts,
concrete details, quotations, and examples
21 - 25 = The topic is thoroughly developed with relevant facts,
concrete details, quotations, and examples.
4. CONCLUSION (10 points)
1 - 5 = The problems and goals do not end with a strong
concluding statement
6 - 10 = The problems and goals effectively end with a strong
concluding statement.

5. REFERENCES
1 - 5 = The minimum numbers of references are not reached, the
references are written in APA 7th Edition Format incorrectly
6 - 10 = The minimum numbers of references are reached, the
references are written in APA 7th Edition Format correctly.