Presentation Tips?

[Erin Rapacki]

Over the four years I've been participating in FIRST, I've had to make many presentations... some small, some big (but not as big as yours). I had made a Power Point presentation of about 350 pictures of people having fun in FIRST. Pictures range from the 2001 - 2004 games, and include the ppl working on bots in the pits, mascots, robots on the playing field, random happy people, more robots, etc... I set each picture to a 4 sec auto-transition, and put the slide show on repeat.

My style? I stand in front of the screen and talk about FIRST in a way that specifically pertains to my audience. The pictures give an overall visual as to why I'm so enthusiastic about the program, but my words give them the information they need. In addition, because the pictures transition every few seconds... the audience stays interested.

Just an idea...



ByE

erin

[phrontist]

UPDATE: Just got out of the meeting. I think it went very well, and thanks for all the advice...

I ended up following Erin's format, which worked well, except I was freqently interrupted by: "Wow! Thats amazing..."

They seemed suprised that students were running the show...

The institution is loaded, they said they plan to have $1 Million by NOVEMBER that would just be going to OUR school district...

Now they're required to save a lot of that money, but hey, any donation is a good donation.

We need $11,000 so thats only 1.1% of their income...

[Barry Bonzack]

Originally Posted by phrontist

The institution is loaded, they said they plan to have $1 Million by NOVEMBER that would just be going to OUR school district...

We need $11,000 so thats only 1.1% of their income...

Holy moly! Thats a lot of mulah! If they happen to want to hear any presentations down in Florida.... thats already double my schools budget thus far.

Well I'm sorry I didn't catch this post earlier, but it there are any other people interested and need help with presentations, I gave two speeches during my time over the summer in Oklahoma. I have videos promoting FIRST, the 2004 game animation, a competition during the UCF regional that ended in a tie and all four robots on the bar, team 67 2004 animation (good for values of FIRST), and dozens and dozens of pictures. I also set up an entire promo folder which I put onto a CD to hand out to interested parties. This CD included more matches, videos, and the FIRST 2003 documentary. Anyone who wants any videos from me just let me know.

[phrontist]

Originally Posted by Bonzack1390

Holy moly! Thats a lot of mulah! If they happen to want to hear any presentations down in Florida.... thats already double my schools budget thus far.

Well, to be fair this foundation can't give all that money away, they are required to try to save/grow a lot of it...

BUT apparently a bunch of local developers (think high-rise construction) have been guilted into "giving back to the community" because they are "burdening the school district"...

I don't care WHY they do it, but it sounds good to me...

Moral of the story: One (wo)man's guilt is another (wo)man's Gain!