Local (optional) instructions for virtual practice

  • 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.
  • see the following page for you goal to make it to nationals national guidance link
  • 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.