Dry Run Review
I thought Lizzie and I did a very good job on our dry run presentation, and this is all due to the time and practice we put into our presentation. Throughout the past month we have been working on our power point and have created an eye catching and informational presentation. For the past week Lizzie and I have been practicing our presentation, adding in elements to make ours stand out, getting used to the microphone and becoming comfortable enough with our presentation in order to talk in front of an audience. All of this time and effort we put in really paid off, our dry run was smooth and informative. The judges said they were impressed with how organized and beautiful our power point was. They did give us some feedback to include some past problem/experiences we had while building and to try to display our prototype in action. Lizzie and I are going to work to add these improvements into our presentation while trying to stay in our time frame!
Presentation pictures
Final Presentation Review
I could not be more proud of our presentation, after the nervous afternoon we had sitting and watching everyone else's presentations I am so proud of what we have accomplished. I was a little scared about adding. in the new improvements and setting the timer, and I didn't want to mess up or forget my words, but as soon as we started I calmed down. Due to all the time and practice we put into our presentation Lizzie and I were so comfortable with our material and speaking to the audience, we had great eye contact and had a conversational inviting tone! I am beyond proud of not only our presentation, but our product as well and I am so amazed that we finished, but am so sad that school is over!
Advisor
Our main advisor was Mr. Trevor Hill. Mr. Hill previously attended Carson-Newman University and is now a Co-Principal of Stephen Decatur High School. In middle school Lizzie and I both had the privilege to be a part of his pre-engineering classes. He was the first person to introduce the engineering concepts and developed the basics for the rest of our program. Mr. Hill has used lots of his time to help us develop a viable solution to our problem. He has lots of great ideas and is very flexible with our solutions and schedules.