Presentations

Suggestions for good presentations

• Organize your presentation.
  • Motivate your talk (why?). Why is this an interesting project? Why should the audience be interested in the project? Why are you interested? Summarize your talk.
  • Explain how you are going to do your project. What is your approach ? Why is this a good approach ? Are there similar products out there? How are they similar, how are they different? Why is your project special?
  • Summarize your presentation. Why and how? Yes. It is a good idea to summarize your talk at the beginning and at the end.
• Rehearse
  • Make sure that the presentation fits the allotted time
  • Ensure that you transition from team member to team member smoothly (if you have transitions).
  • Pick and choose the words you plan to say to clearly communicate the idea that you are trying to get across. This is most important. The right words to choose depend on the idea and the audience. There are a dozen ways to say the same thing, but only one or two will be suitable for your audience.
• Entertain
  • Keep your audience interested and involved
  • Get your audience's full attention
  • Make it easy for your audience to pay attention to your presentation.

Schedule

1. Feb. 6. 2002
   1. 2:40 p.m. 4th Dimension. Mine Evacuation Training. Invited teams: JABAM, BYOC, Xtract

   2. 3:00 p.m. BYOC. Survey authoring tool. Invited teams: Xtract, OES, 4th Dimension

   3. 3:20 p.m. Xtract. Managing digital pictures. Invited teams: 4th Dimension, BYOC, OES (2).

2. Feb. 11. 2002
   1. 2:40 p.m. CodeRed. Casino promotions authoring. Invited teams: JPRO, Double You, 4th Dimension (2)

   2. 3:00 p.m. Double You. Plugable postscript document editor. Invited Teams: Code Red, JPRO, BYOC

3. Feb. 13. 2002
   1. 2:40 p.m. JPRO. Ski Lodge scheduling system. Invited Teams: Code Red, Double You, Xtract (2)

   2. 3:00 p.m. OES. Open Enrollment System. Invited Teams: JABAM, JPRO, Double You (2)

   3. 3:20 p.m. JABAM. Laser range-finder for altitude and terrain mapping. Invited Teams: OES, BYOC, Code Red (2)