Capital City Advanced Presenters

Capital City Advanced Presenters Capital City Advanced Presenters is an advanced Toastmasters club located in Des Moines, Iowa

09/20/2025

Fellow Toastmasters - You’ve worked hard to become a confident communicator and leader through Toastmasters, but are you ready for your next challenge?

At Capital City Advanced Presenters, we’ll help you grow even further. Join us as a guest and push your communication skills to the next level!

We meet at the Des Moines North Side Library and on Zoom at 10:30 A.M. on the third Saturday of every month. For more info email [email protected] or send us a direct message. Guests are always welcome.

08/15/2025

Welcome to Capital City Advanced Presenters
Capital City Advanced Presenters (CCAP) is an advanced Toastmasters club in the Des Moines, Iowa area.

CCAP specializes in giving experienced Toastmasters members the critical feedback they need to enhance their presentation skills through enhanced evaluations. Each speaker benefits from one evaluator who focuses on the content of the speech, one evaluator who focuses on the presentation and delivery, and round robin evaluations from anyone in attendance. This emphasis on feedback benefits the speaker, evaluator, and everyone in the room.

We meet the third Saturday of each month from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm at the North Side Library and on Zoom. Visit our website for more information:

05/15/2025

The May meeting of Capital City Advanced Presenters will take place at the SOUTH Side Library, just for this month. We begin at 10:30am. Guests may also join on zoom, reach out for the zoom link! We have a great agenda lined up!

Many members of Capital City Advanced Presenters attended the District 19 Toastmasters Conference in Johnston this weeke...
05/04/2025

Many members of Capital City Advanced Presenters attended the District 19 Toastmasters Conference in Johnston this weekend. It was a great event filled with learning, personal growth and celebration. Anyone wanting to experience what a CCAP meeting is like is welcome to join us at a meeting as a guest! We meet the third Saturday of the month at 10:30am. Please reach out to us for more information.

07/18/2024

Please join us for our July CCAP meeting this Saturday, July 20th at 10:30am at the North Side Library, or contact us to receive the zoom link for this hybrid meeting. We love having guests and showing others the benefits of this great advanced club!

IMPORTANT UPDATE for tomorrow's Open House - due to a conflict with our original location, we will now be meeting at Rac...
05/17/2024

IMPORTANT UPDATE for tomorrow's Open House - due to a conflict with our original location, we will now be meeting at Raccoon River Park, Biddle Shelter, 2500 Grand Ave, West Des Moines. It looks to be a beautiful morning!

There is still an option to attend via zoom - if you'd like to attend on zoom but don't have the link, please contact us here on FB and we will send it to you.

Meeting starts at 10:30am, we will be available on zoom and in person no later than 10:15, so feel free to join a little early. All are welcome!

Congratulations to CCAP members Tony Dahlman and Rebecca Flicher on their District 19 speech contest wins! Rebecca won f...
05/05/2024

Congratulations to CCAP members Tony Dahlman and Rebecca Flicher on their District 19 speech contest wins!

Rebecca won first place in the International Speech Contest and Tony won second place in the Evaluation Contest.

Save the date for a Spring Open House hosted by Capital City Advanced Presenters! Guests are welcome to join in person a...
04/08/2024

Save the date for a Spring Open House hosted by Capital City Advanced Presenters! Guests are welcome to join in person at the North Side Library in Des Moines, or on Zoom (message us for the zoom link). Come see what makes this club special!

Congratulations to CCAP members Tony Dahlman and Rebecca Flicher for their achievements at the Division Y speech contest...
03/23/2024

Congratulations to CCAP members Tony Dahlman and Rebecca Flicher for their achievements at the Division Y speech contest today! Rebecca came in first place in the International Speech Contest and Tony came in first place in the Evaluation Contest and second place in the International Speech Contest. 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

While we're dreaming of warmer days, a little cold weather won't stop us from our monthly Toastmasters meeting! Tomorrow...
01/19/2024

While we're dreaming of warmer days, a little cold weather won't stop us from our monthly Toastmasters meeting! Tomorrow, Saturday Jan. 20 we will hold a hybrid meeting at 10:30am, on zoom and at the Des Moines North Public Library. Whether it's been awhile since you've been to a CCAP meeting or you've never been, we'd love to see you there! Contact us for a zoom link.

Congratulations to CCAP club president,Tony Dahlman, for presenting at the The Des Moines Register Storytellers Project.
04/27/2022

Congratulations to CCAP club president,Tony Dahlman, for presenting at the The Des Moines Register Storytellers Project.

11/12/2021

Upcoming Meeting Alert: CCAP will continue to hold hybrid meetings through 2021.

Join us Saturday, November 20 at the Urbandale Public Libray and Saturday, December 18 at the West Des Moines Public Library.

Of course you can always join on Zoom as well.

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Des Moines, IA
50313

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What Set This Club Apart?

It's the number one question we've received since forming in January of 2019, what sets your Toastmasters club apart from the others? It's a fair question. After-all, if you're going to make the commitment of joining another Toastmasters club you want to know what will make this experience better. CCAP, as we are known for short, was created with the idea that we don't limit our members to the types of development they want to pursue. Our focus is that our members are here to grow as presenters, so we need to allow them to grow in whatever avenue they choose. One of the unique ways we can do that is by offering what we call "enhanced evaluations." Unlike a typical Toastmasters meeting where you receive one two to three minute evaluation of your presentation CCAP offers two core evaluations followed by round-robin style feedback. The first evaluator focuses on your presentation as a whole with more emphasis on what to challenge yourself with the next time. The second evaluator looks at what your stage presence like, the delivery and the ex*****on. After that we open the floor to any member who would like to offer feedback. Through enhanced evaluations our members find themselves getting the critical feedback that they need to challenge and begin to master their presentation styles. If you're looking for that critical feedback to challenge and improve your skills we invite you to check out Capital City Advanced Presenters on the third Saturday of each month in West Des Moines, Iowa.