[Ninjitsu Banana]

At St. Louis, the room we were in for the presentation was a bit cramped, so it would've been difficult to use a projector. What we did instead was run a PowerPoint off of a laptop that was placed right in front of the judges, and used a wireless mouse like a slideshow clicker to advance slides at certain times that were predetermined. The judges were impressed with this...I'd recommend some sort of visual aid for those giving presentations.

Also, I would recommend giving the judges some supplemental information. In our interview, we gave each judge a folder containing more information about our team and its accomplishments, so that when we left and took the PowerPoint with us, they would have material to review. For example, we put inside the folder images taken from a local news program in which my friend and I were interviewed about FIRST and our robotics team. We alluded to the news interview in the presentation and said that the judges could look in their folders for further material.