Does your chapter run meetings using Parliamentary Procedure? Does your chapter want to learn more about Parliamentary Procedure? If so, the Parliamentary Procedure STAR event is for you! This STAR event is a team event that consists of four to eight members, so round up your friends and let’s dive in deep as we learn more about the Parliamentary Produce STAR event!
The first thing your team will need to learn is Parliamentary Procedure. Make sure your team is familiar with how to formally run a meeting using Robert’s Rules of Order. Normally with most STAR events, an individual or team would prepare their project ahead of time, however, with this STAR event you will demonstrate a meeting in front of the judges. Participants will have 15 minutes to prepare for the meeting. The team will be given a planning packet that will have a secretary’s record, blank secretary record, treasurer’s report, a copy of Robert’s rule of order and two topics of new business that will need to be discussed during your mock meeting. This first 15 minutes is crucial. This is when your team will make notes of things that will need to be addressed and decided who will act as who. There will need to be a president, secretary, and treasurer that have specific jobs during the meeting. You may take prepared notes into the mock meeting, however everything will be collected at the end.
Once 15 minutes have passed, your team will be taken into another room and the team will have 20 minutes to conduct a meeting. This will be when your team puts everything together! This meeting will need to consist of opening/closing ceremony, a motion, point of order, committees, and a few other specifics that can be found on the rubric. Once the team has completed their meeting and ended with closing ceremony, the judges will have 15 minutes to provide feedback, discuss, and complete the rubric.
I can’t wait to see all of you this year competing in Parliamentary Procedure! After all, you never know what new things you can discover in FCCLA!
Lexie Barton
Vice President of Parliamentary Law
