By Marley Nervais
For rookies coming into youth and government is a new experience. It may not be what they might have expected. For anyone, this could be the case.
No matter what age or grade as a newcomer it’s a very different environment. Although it can be nerve-wracking many people are here to help the rookies.
“I would probably say to have confidence. Your case could suck but if you go up there and just talk with some mediocre level of confidence you’ll be fine. I wish someone would’ve told me that every case is different and the way you have your case set up the way you have your witnesses to talk, the way you have your opening, your introduction, and your pretrial is going to be different than everyone else’s and that is fine. It’s normal and nothing to worry about.” Delegate Izy Black said.
For another viewpoint student Anna Kate Beck “A piece of advice I would give someone coming in would be to listen to all your evaluators and judges. The reason you’re there is to learn new stuff. If you listen to all their critics it will definitely improve your first to last round.”
“Something I wish someone told me was to not be afraid to object because even if your objection is wrong it still proves that what you know and that you can attempt it.”
Aaron Esquivel and Syed Humaide give a very popular piece of advice by both saying
“Fake it till you make it”
This advice seems to have paid off due to this team winning their first round of prosecution.
“Fake it till you make it and act confident in whatever you have prepared because basically you only succeed in this when you’re confident in yourself and I believe that especially in public speaking confidence is key. Syed Humaide said.