FINAL PROJECT PRESENTATIONS

Formal Presentation

Your peers and I will evaluate your presentations according to these criteria:

• The Presentation in terms of:
• -- visual quality,
• -- oral quality,
• -- organization;
          and
• The Technical Merit in terms of:
• -- concreteness of results achieved
• -- technical hurdles overcome
• -- the "usefulness/coolness" of the final product.

Hints for a Good Final Project Presentation

• Make sure you capture and keep the attention of the audience.
• -- Be proud of your results !
• -- Use graphics -- use color !
• -- Keep slides simple -- one thought per page.
• -- Stay within allotted time -- rehearse your talk.

• Make sure audience understands what you have achieved.
• -- Review the problem that you were going to solve.
• -- Describe clearly what you have been able to do.
• -- Demonstrate that what you have done is worthwhile.

• Make your talk technically interesting.
• -- Describe one or two technical problems that you had to overcome.
• -- Explain how you did it, and what you learned.
• -- Show why this is of some general interest.

Checklist

• What the project is all about:
  - title, authors, general goal(s);
  - original promises.
  - perhaps a conceptual picture of the desired result (from proposal presentation).
• Achievements:
  - what has been achieved ?
  - what unexpected problems have been encountered ?
  - show how you solved a particularly interesting subproblem.
  - perhaps something that you could NOT achieve -- and the lesson learned from it.
• Conclusions:
  - what have you learned from this project ?
  - what would you do differently next time ?
  - how could this project be extended ?
  

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