The virtual meeting is for students to observe other projects, get feedback on their own, and practice defending your work to judges questions.
Projects do not need to be complete, and you can put your presentation together as a finished piece, a work in progress or just an overview of what you have done so far.
Students must compress their recorded presentation, in order to deliver it. Known methods that work are to record the presentation in ZOOM, send a google link to the presentation or a link to the youtube channel.
You should use a slide presentation in your video to present an explanation of the project up to 12 minutes. This should be similar science-research presentation as ISEF or any other formal scientific lab report, but in slide presentation form.
The AL Regional JSHS competition is a face to face competition that requires the same format, so its a good use of time.
The recorded presentation should be 12 minutes and you should prepare for the virtual meeting, a 2m-minute introduction and you will experience 6 minutes of defense (just like in competition) or defense and some feedback.
some recommendations:
do not email me a video and just expect it has arrived. Likely it has not if it is not compressed in zoom. Do expect confirmation.
Use power point to make the presentation and share it during a zoom recording.
use zoom to make an ultra compressed video and email it to me. Doing it in Zoom will go through email while other forms of recording will exceed the limit.
If you have questions about anything that a Judge might offer advice about, write the questions down so you remember to ask them in your 6 minutes.
TITLE it with your last name, a part of the category to identify what type of project it is and a minimal part of your title.. ex Anan Life science Planarians regenerating.
During the beginning of your recording, do introduce what you hope to get out of the 6 minutes that you’ll be the focus. e.g. Explain that you are not done and your looking for some defense questions and some feedback, or that this is a completed project and you want to practice defending questions.
