FINAL PROJECT PRESENTATIONS

On December 12 and 14, 2011 ,
everybody will make a formal presentation in front of the class about their achievements in their course projects.
The conceptual setting for this presentation might be that of a job interview where you are given a certain amount of time to describe "what you have done lately."

Formal Presentation

This is a _formal_ presentation; with foils, and possible props, and all...
The form as well as the content of your presentation will be judged (see below).
Rehearse your talk to make sure it fits into a 10/15 minute time limit.

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 alloted 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 is 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

Make sure, the following points are addressed
(Every main bullet could be one or more slides):

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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