Instructions for Students
Before the Event
Bringing guests to the Academic Festival
All family and friends are warmly welcomed to the Festival.
Please help spread the word! Be sure to indicate the number
of guests you will bring when you register online. Contact
any Festival committee member if you have questions or need
invitational materials.
Tips on developing and delivering poster and oral
presentations
Presentations in various fields have many components in common,
but standards and formats vary by discipline. Your instructor
is the final authority on your presentation.
Poster presentation sites
- http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/IndexStart.html (a succinct, easy-to-follow website that shows actual student
poster examples and highlights their strengths and weaknesses)
- http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2004/index.cfm?fuseaction=posters (from the American Statistical Association)
- http://www.siam.org/siamnews/general/poster.htm (from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
You may also contact Layne Nordgren in the Digital Media
Center [(253) 535-7197 or nordgrle@plu.edu]
for help with designing and producing your poster. His tips
are available online at http://www.plu.edu/~dmc/workshops.
Oral presentation sites
- http://www.aresearchguide.com/3tips.html
- http://www.ams.org/meetings/guideline-present.html (from the American Mathematics Society)
Poster logistics
Posters will be attached with pushpins to foam core boards
that are 8 feet tall and 4 feet wide. Please plan your poster
to fit these dimensions. The boards cannot be turned sideways
to extend the width without affecting the layout of all the
boards. [If you absolutely need more width, please contact
Ann, Morken Center Room 238, immediately.] Make sure your poster is
not too heavy for pushpins. Some departments provide poster
supplies; ask your instructor.
The poster boards will be set up and numbered on Thursday,
27 April. Your board number will correspond to the number
assigned to your poster in the Festival Program. Maps of the
poster layout will be available in Rieke. Large maps will
be displayed on easels. You may attach your poster any time
on Thursday or Friday morning. All posters must be in place
before the Festival begins at 12:30 p.m. on Friday.
Pushpins will be available at tables or counters in the lobby
and/or office area. Use only pushpins to attach your poster;
do not use glue or anything else that could damage the boards—they
are reused each year. Please do not kneel on the board; kneeling
dents them.
Please leave your poster up for one week after the Festival.
People who did not have enough time to look at all the posters
during the Festival will be encouraged to look at them throughout
the week and contact the authors if they’d like further
information. Students are responsible for removing their posters
by Friday, 5 May. The boards will be put away after that date.
Practicing oral presentations
(To be determined, 2006) The mornings of Friday April ? through Friday April ?
Rieke room ? will be set up and available for practicing
your talk. There will be a sign up sheet on the door of ?.
Please reserve a spot ahead of time. Contact Matthew Hacker
(x8701) if you have questions.
Program
The Festival Program should be posted on this website by Monday,
24 April, and back from the printers’ by sometime Wednesday,
26 April.
During the Festival
How to dress
Opinions about appropriate dress for the Festival vary. To
some, professional dress symbolizes respect for the student
work highlighted at the Festival and enhances the celebratory
atmosphere; others are interested only in presentation content.
You can’t go wrong by presenting yourself as a professional
(no jeans, T-shirts, shorts, tennis shoes, baseball caps).
If you are more comfortable with casual dress, you might want
to check with your professor first.
Electronic devices
Please be sure to turn off your cell phones or any other potentially
disruptive devices before attending oral or poster presentations
or demonstrations.
Talks logistics
Computers for the festival will support CD, Zip 100 and 250,
USB pendrive, and floppy media. Load your presentation well
before noon on Friday and 8:30 a.m. on Saturday. Also, bring
your media with you to your presentation in case a machine
must be replaced. Although they are rare, expect unexpected
difficulties; keep backups of your data and leave yourself
plenty of time. Technical support will be available at the
Information Desk in the Rieke lobby during the Festival, but
there will not be a technician in the presentation rooms.
Parking
During the festival anyone may park without getting
ticketed in the Olson, Rieke, and CLT parking lots.
After the Event
Evaluation Form
Please help us make the Festival even better for future participants.
Evaluation forms will be available throughout the Rieke lobby
and office area. The Festival Committee reads your comments
carefully and takes them into consideration when planning
the next year’s Festival.
Poster removal
Please remember to take your poster down
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