Oral Presentation Workshop

•You must send a copy of your PowerPoint presentation to jheard@bnl.gov by 5:00pm Wednesday. •You should arrive at your speaking place by 8:30am Thursday morning.•You should bring your poster with you to your speaking place. It will be displayed outside of your speaking place.

Where do you go?•Biology/Medical - Medical (Building #490) in the Large Conference Room.•Physics – Biology (Building #463) in the Biology Seminar Room.•Chemistry – Chemistry (Building #555) in the Hamilton Seminar Room.•Env/Eng/Other – Berkner Hall (Building 488) in the Main Auditorium.

You must be there by 8:30am on Thursday morning!!!

The Presentation

• 12 minutes duration (10 minute presentation, 2 minutes Q & A)

• There will be a facilitator to load your presentation.

• Remember the purpose of your presentation is to communicate the important points of your research to other scientist.

The three parts of a speechThe Speaker

The PresentationThe Structure

The Speaker – You!

•Avoid mumbling, monotone speaking and obscure terminology.•Be engaging, show personality and maintain eye contact.•You are a speaker not a reader!

The Presentation- PowerPoint

• “A picture is worth a thousand words, a graph is worth a thousand numbers.”

• Demonstrations, models, short videos are all allowed.

• “Less is more” use as few PowerPoint slides as possible.

The Structure-What to do

•Clearly introduce yourself•Tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, then tell them what you just told them.•Give a little background on your subject. Describe how your research fit into the big picture.•Give your results and conclusions•What went wrong, problems….•What’s next.

Q and A

If you do not know, say you do not know.

It’s not that bad!!!