Gavel Club’s impact on undergraduates goes beyond conquering stage fright. Since its inception in 2005, members of the club have excelled as public speakers at university, national and international level. We have produced an All Island Best Speaker, two All Island Inter University Best Speakers, and thrice produced the winning team at CIMA Global Business Challenge Sri Lanka. One of those teams emerged as the 1st runner-up at the global finals held in Singapore in 2009. The winning team of 2015 emerged amongst the top six teams in the world
The achievements listed in chronological order are as follows:
- Four semi-finalists at the All Island Best Speaker Contest 2007.
- Winner, 2nd Runner-up and three finalists at the Inter University Speech Contest 2007
- Champion of All Island Best Speaker Contest 2008
- Two finalists at the Inter University Speech Contest 2009
- Global 1st Runner-up at CIMA Global Business Challenge 2009
- Champions of CIMA GBC 2010 Country Finals who went on to represent Sri Lanka at the Global Finals in Malaysia
- A finalist and three semi-finalists at the All Island Best Speaker Contest 2011
- Two semi-finalists at the All Island Best Speaker Contest 2012
- A finalist at All Island Best Speaker Contest 2013
- The 1st Runner-up, Best Prepared Speaker and a finalist at the All Island Inter University Best Speaker Contest 2013
- The 1st Runner-up team and the 3rd Runner-up team at Country Finals of CIMA GBC 2013
- Best Presenter at CIMA GBC 2013
- National Runners-up team at CIMA GBC 2014
- Winner, first runner-up and a finalist at Speech Master 2014, an Inter University Best Speaker Contest
- One of the top 6 teams in the world at CIMA GBC 2015, and winner and first runner-up team at the Country Finals
- A finalist and 4 semi-finalists at AIBS 2015
- Winner, Best Prepared Speaker, and Best Impromptu Speaker at All Island Inter-University Best Speaker Contest 2015
- Fourth place winner and a finalist at Speech Master 2015
- Member of Unilever Challenge 2016 team representing Sri Lanka at the Global Future Leaders League in London
- Second runner-up at Impromptu and Prepared speech categories of All Island Best Gavel Speaker 2016
- Finalist at Speech Master 2016
- First Runner-up of Unilever Challenge 2017- National Finals
- Winner of Humorous Speech category and First Runner-up at Speech Evaluation category at Enliven 2017
- First Runner-up and Second Runner-up of SLIM Speech Idol 2017
- Fourth place winner at Speech Master 2017
- Winner, Best Prepared Speaker, and Best Impromptu Speaker at All Island Inter-University Best Speaker Contest 2017