PRESENTING YOUR WORK:

[from the Illinois State Junior Academy of Science Student Guidebook]

Here is a guideline to use when presenting your work.

BRING YOUR PRESENTATION ON A FLASH DRIVE IN Microsoft POWERPOINT FORMAT

 1) INTRODUCTION

• be sure to introduce yourself to your audience

 2) PURPOSE AND HYPOTHESIS

• state exactly what the investigation is attempting to discover,  What results or outcome did you expect?
• why did you do this project?  how did you get interested in it?  

 3) BACKGROUND INFORMATION

• background explanation for your project (to familiarize the judges), scope of your study, etc.

 4) PROCEDURE

• be complete - do not leave out necessary details.
• proceed in a logical manner, telling what you did step by step.
• use visual aids: charts, pictures, graphs, etc.
• explain how your apparatus was used.  Did you constructed it yourself? If not, give credit to those who helped you.

 5) RESULTS (DATA AND DISCUSSION)

• explain both your controls and your experimental variables.
• remember to use proper units of measure with your data.
• point to graphs, charts, etc., when you refer to them

 6) CONCLUSION(S)    

• state in a concise and logical order the conclusions you can validly draw from the experimentation you have done and the data and/or observations obtained.
• admit any deficiencies or limitations in this regard.

 7) FUTURE PLANS

• be sure to tell how you plan to continue your project.

  8) ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

• give credit to those whom you have contacted and to those who have helped you.
• any work done in the past pertaining to your project.

  9) ANY QUESTIONS

• when you have finished, ask the judges if there are any questions they would like to ask.
• when they ask you questions, think before you answer them. Answer slowly! If you don't know the answer say, ''I'm not sure but I think...".
• if they ask you a question which is not related to your project and you don't know the answer, then say, ''I really haven't been concerned with this in my project,  but it might be interesting to look into it.''
• thank them for any suggestions they may have for bettering your research.

10) OTHER SUGGESTIONS

• speak slowly and clearly; be forward but polite, dynamic, and above all interested in what you are doing.
• your presentation should not exceed 10 minutes