ISCC Presentation Information

The time limit for each presentation is 12 minutes, and each speaker will be alerted when 1 minute remains in the talk. A question period of 4 minutes will follow each presentation, and each presenter will be asked at least two questions. The remaining 4 minutes in the 20-minute period will allow for changing rooms to hear talks in other sessions.

Judges will evaluate the presentations using the following five categories and select first and second place award winners in each division:

· Presentation (organization, poise, clarity, etc.)
· Research Project (relevance, potential contribution to chemistry, etc.)
· Design (experimental design, techniques, creativity, completeness, etc.)
· Interpretation of Data and Conclusions (clearness, accuracy, strength, etc.)
· Response to Questions (knowledge, succinctness, etc.)

ISCC Technical Information

Overhead transparencies and PowerPoint presentations (PC or Mac) are welcome. We will do our very best to try to accommodate other media requests, within reason. Those students that wish to give an electronic presentation are strongly encouraged to have "backup" transparencies in case of technical difficulties that cannot be quickly solved. Those students that plan on giving a PowerPoint presentation should also read the following to minimize any surprises with the software.

If you've been to enough meetings, you've undoubtedly seen instances of PowerPoint presentation gone awry: video inserts disappear, pictures look fuzzy or are blank, text looks lousy, etc. Use the following suggestions to minimize doing "hand puppets" during your talk:

· Fonts (use standards like Ariel, Times New Roman, Courier and Symbol)
· Graphics (use JPEG, TIFF, and/or GIF formats; if you need to "cut and paste", 'paste special' as a picture makes your presentation more portable)
· Animations (limit to simple entry animations, like Fly In, Appear, and Dissolve, and avoid exit animations altogether; use PowerPoint transitions only and avoid QuickTime transitions)
· Movies (if you must insert a movie, send e-mail to joseph.bausch@villanova.edu for tips and suggestions)

Note: the excellent article from which the above info was extracted is "Presentation Power Tips" by Franklin N. Tessler in the January, 2003 issue of MacWorld magazine. Unfortunately, no web link to the article is available.