Community Project Presentation Tips and Content Guide TIPS

Community Project Presentation Tips and Content Guide

TIPS FOR YOUR PRESENTATION STYLE & POWERPOINT SLIDES

Timing 5 minute minimum 7 minute maximum 3 -4 minutes for questions You will need to practice to perfect your time management!

Appropriate Dress

NO INAPPROPRIATE LAUGHTER This is a nervous thing Control it! Or you will lose credibility with your audience

NO EXTRA FIDGETING This is a nerves thing too! No kicking No pacing No inappropriate movement It’s distracting! Be comfortable, use your hands as necessary, take a few steps here and there But don’t overdue it!

NO MUMBLING If you practice and know your stuff This will not happen

DON’T READ YOUR SLIDES PRACTICE, PRACTICE YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT YOU’RE GOING TO SAY FOR EACH SLIDE NOT MEMORIZED, NECESSARILY, BY THE GENERAL IDEAS CAN LOOK FOR NUMBERS! READING YOUR SLIDES WILL CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CREDIBILITY!

USE ALL YOUR SLIDE It’s really annoying when text is too small Or images are too small Or there is to much white space

WATCH IMAGE QUALITY

LEGIBLE FONT SIZE AND COLOR THIS IS HARD TO READ This is hard to read THIS IS TOO SMALL THIS IS TOO BIG

TOO MUCH TEXT Will overwhelm and bore your audience Be concise and focused Don’t use complete sentences Don’t write down everything you will say Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate – we can not hallow – this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

USE LARGE GRAPHS

USE LARGE IMAGES

PRESENTATION CONTENT WHAT YOU SHOULD INCLUDE

SLIDES TO INCLUDE CON’T 1. TITLE PAGE WITH GROUP MEMBERS NAMES 2. PROJECT SUMMARY BRIFLY DESCRIBE ACTIVITY GOAL FUNDING REQUESTED ONE SLIDE ONLY

SLIDES TO INCLUDE CON’T 3. PROJECT DESCRIPTION INCLUDE ALL RELEVANT ASPECTS DISCUSS YOUR MAIN OBJECTIVE(S) EX… OBJECTIVE 1: HOLD A SMOKING CESSATION CLASS FOR 50 PEOPLE OBJECTIVE 2: MONITOR SMOKING HABITS FOR 2 MONTHS FOLLOWING CLASS OBJECTIVE 3: 15% OF ATTENDEES WILL REMAIN NON-SMOKERS FOR AT LEAST 2 MONTHS FOLLOWING THE CLASS TARGET AUDIENCE PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS THIS SHOULD TAKE SEVERAL SLIDES

SLIDES TO INCLUDE CON’T 4. THE IDENTIFIED NEED DISCUSS THE COMMUNITY NEED OR THE ROOT CAUSE(S) OF PROBLEM(S) YOUR PROJECT WILL ADDRESS YOU MUST CITE ALL YOUR REFERENCES IN TEXT GLOBAL AND NATIONAL DATA ARE GOOD KY AND COUNTY DATA ARE BETTER YOU MUST CITE ALL YOUR REFERENCES IN TEXT (AUTHOR, YEAR). USE MAPS, GRAPHS, FIGURES HERE AS RELEVANT! THIS SHOULD TAKE SEVERAL SLIDES

SLIDES TO INCLUDE CON’T 5. HOW WILL YOUR PROJECT HELP? PROVIDE EVIDENCE THAT YOUR PROJECT CAN/WILL ADDRESS YOUR IDENTIFIED NEED IN SOME WAY EX) SMOKING CESSATION CLASSES LIKE ONE WE WILL OFFER DECREASE SMOKING BY 13% (RED CROSS, 2014). YOU MUST CITE ALL YOUR REFERENCES IN TEXT (AUTHOR, YEAR). USE MAPS, GRAPHS, FIGURES HERE AS RELEVANT! THIS COULD TAKE 1 -SEVERAL SLIDES

SLIDES TO INCLUDE CON’T 6. IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE (STARTING IN MARCH) ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES FOR ALL STUDENTS COMMUNITY COLLABORATION OBSATCLES 7. FUNDING BUDGET (INCLUDE TABLE) POTENTIAL FUNDERS

SLIDES TO INCLUDE CON’T Conclusion Briefly re-describe project (one sentence) Goal Money required