Today we practiced our final presentations at the DOER. In attendance was Seth Tuler, Dwayne Breger, Amy McGuire, Gerry Bingham and several other members of the Renewable division present by phone and in-person. We were excited to get this opportunity to be able to practice in front of a live audience before Thursday. Our thought was that if we can sell our project to the DOER staff, then Thursday will be that much smoother for us.
On the train ride, we were consistently editing our PowerPoint. When four people are reviewing any one type of media, there will always be a revision waiting on the next slide. Although its tedious, having three other sets of eyes continuously polish the slides and picks up things we as individuals may not have seen alone. Our biggest concern going in was making sure we were not providing too much background information to the DOER, however Amy McGuire ensured us that those in attendance know this is a practice for a more general audience.
Our actual presentation went off great. The transitions between slides were smooth and the team really found our groove right into the first slide. In part this is due to the feedback we received Monday from other IQP members. At our conclusion, we opened it up to feedback from the room. The finding that the DOER staff seemed to have expressed the most interest on is the demographics of awardees and respondents in terms of government types. They recommended we break it down to simple terms in terms of towns vs cities and looking at the primary applicants.
Other comments from the DOER were ensuring fonts, capitalization and colors of the PowerPoint are consistent throughout. The finding slides that includes both graphics and text were suggested to cut down to just graphics and filling in the information orally. We are in a great place for our presentation tomorrow, and we're going to be spending the rest of our day and night running through it in preparation.
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