After your presentation, everybody should have learned something and should be able to summarize what you have done for your project.
The first 5 minutes of your presentation should be *easily* understood by everybody. If you insist on giving technical details (because you consider them as essential), keep them for (the near) end of the presentation. Remember that your goal is to make people understand...
Your slides should be sparse, not overcrowded with a lot of text and figures.
Avoid long sentences and hard-to-understand definitions. Do not write
on your slides everything you will
say to the audience. Do not read your transparencies! Rather, bring
with you some notes that will remind you what to say.
You will need to be very well-prepared for your presentation. Practice it in advance in front of your friends. You will need to do it a few times before you can find the right amount of information to give for a 15 to 20 minute talk. You are not allowed to exceed 20 minutes. This includes your setup time at the beginning and a period (3-4 minutes) at the end for questions.
The use of colors is recommended for outlining but do not overdo it...
Handwritten slides are perfectly acceptable and are easier to produce (especially with colors). They are often better than computer-generated slides. So do not hesitate to produce clear hand-written slides. The inconvenience is that they are not (or hardly) reusable. But this is not your concern here since you have only one presentation to give (but it is a concern for profs who give the same course for several years and want to update it at each year).
Many of you will want to give a "live" demo of a piece of software that you will have developed. The computer used for the presentations will have the same software available as the ones in the computer labs of the SITE building.
It sometimes happens that, for some reason, the computer is not working. Hence, you must have a "backup" presentation where you use only overhead slides.
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