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<li><b><u>Presentation clarity</b></u>: Is your presentation easy to follow? This is of critical importance when presenting complex material. If possible, practice presenting to an audience outside of your research group. Oftentimes, asking another PI, postdoc or senior graduate student to listen to your talk will help improve your talk's clarity.</li> | <li><b><u>Presentation clarity</b></u>: Is your presentation easy to follow? This is of critical importance when presenting complex material. If possible, practice presenting to an audience outside of your research group. Oftentimes, asking another PI, postdoc or senior graduate student to listen to your talk will help improve your talk's clarity.</li> | ||
| − | <li>Presentation design</li> | + | <li><b><u>Presentation design</b></u>: Is the layout and graphic design professional and easy to understand? You should use colors that work well together (see <a href="http://www.colourlovers.com/">Colour Lovers</a> for guidance) and try to use clean, simple designs.</li> |
| − | <li>Project attribution</li> | + | <li><b><u>Data clarity</b></u>: Can you easily explain your data tables and/or graphs? Have you clearly labeled all axis, provided clear titles, and used colors appropriately? You should never assume your audience knows how to read your graphs - take the time to explain how the audience should read your graphs.</li> |
| + | <li><b><u>Project attribution</b></u>: Have you clearly stated which team members worked on each part of your project? Have you included references to published literature and previous work throughout your presentation? These are key components to professional scientific talks and teams should get into the habit of including this information throughout their slides.</li> | ||
<li>Team's ability to answer questions</li> | <li>Team's ability to answer questions</li> | ||
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Revision as of 18:33, 3 September 2015
In iGEM, the purpose of the presentation is to communicate the project to others in an information and engaging manner. Teams are welcome to add an interactive or theatrical component to their presentation as well. Powerpoint slides or Prezi presentations are the most common methods of giving a presentation.
Presentation Guidelines
Please see below for presentation guidelines:
- Each team is assigned a 30 minute session:
- 5 minutes for setting up
- 20 minutes for presenting
- 5 minutes for questions from the audience
- Teams are given a 2 minute warning, then a 1 minute warning, and then will be cut off after the full 20 minutes
- Only registered student members of the team should be presenting or answering questions
- Presentations should include an attributions section
- Speak loudly and clearly
Presentation Evaluation Criteria
When judges are evaluating team presentations, they are looking for the following:
- Presentation clarity: Is your presentation easy to follow? This is of critical importance when presenting complex material. If possible, practice presenting to an audience outside of your research group. Oftentimes, asking another PI, postdoc or senior graduate student to listen to your talk will help improve your talk's clarity.
- Presentation design: Is the layout and graphic design professional and easy to understand? You should use colors that work well together (see Colour Lovers for guidance) and try to use clean, simple designs.
- Data clarity: Can you easily explain your data tables and/or graphs? Have you clearly labeled all axis, provided clear titles, and used colors appropriately? You should never assume your audience knows how to read your graphs - take the time to explain how the audience should read your graphs.
- Project attribution: Have you clearly stated which team members worked on each part of your project? Have you included references to published literature and previous work throughout your presentation? These are key components to professional scientific talks and teams should get into the habit of including this information throughout their slides.
- Team's ability to answer questions
Presentation Examples
In 2014, Teams UCSF UCB (undergraduate) and ITESM-Guadalajara (overgraduate) won Best Presentation. You can see their presentation slides here:
Additional presentation slides can be found on the Results page. You can navigate to different years from the top menu bar, and view team presentation slides by clicking on the slide icon next to a team's name.