The Presentation Evening

The Presentation Evening happens in March and attendance at the Personal Project Display Evening is compulsory for all Grade 10 students.

During the evening, you will remain at your display, ready to answer questions and explain aspects of your project to visitors. You will be expected to ‘dress to impress’ (similarly to the expectations for the Personal Project interview) and be polite, engaging and pleasant.

Each student sets up a display in the PAC (Performing Arts Centre) which contains their product/outcome (or evidence of it), their process journal and their final report. You will be given one display board and a desk in order to display your Personal Project.

The Personal Project displays are usually left up until the end of the week, depending on the PAC availability. This allows for moderation and for classes (such as the Lower School and next year’s Grade 10s) and ACS staff to view the projects. Consider this in planning your display.

Display Guidelines

Your display must include:

The title of your Personal Project
Your name
Your chosen Global Context
Your product (or evidence of it)
Photos and/or images
Entries from your project report
Your process journal

You do not need to have EVERY detail of your Personal Project on the display – remember, the point of this is to show clearly and simply the evidence of your project. Don’t put pages and pages of printouts – the focus is on EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION of what you did.

Hints for good displays

1. Your display should:

Attract attention, be colourful and look interesting!
Encourage your audience to look at your project thoroughly
Be easy to understand

2. Attracting attention with colours and pictures:

Use a balanced selection of colours on the display. Be careful not to overdo it!
Use contrasting colours
Fluorescent colours attract attention, but sometimes they can be a bit too much
Ways to use colour include: coloured backing paper, borders around your display, paint, watercolours, cloth, felt, stickers, coloured pictures and photos (instead of black and white)
Use your pictures to help explain what you did and to add visual interest
Make sure all the pictures you use are relevant
Pictures can be used to fill ‘gaps’ in your display that look empty

3. Size:

It is important to ensure your display fits your display area accurately. If it is too small it will look ‘lost’ compared to other displays. If it is too large it will not fit and will also risk being damaged. You need to design your display in ‘portrait’ style as opposed to ‘landscape’ style.

4. Think border!

A border around your display can make it look ‘polished’ and professional. Be creative with border designs and colours.

5. Written text should:

Be large enough to be viewed clearly from a distance of one metre away. Especially for your project title.
Be kept to a minimum. Remember, a picture is worth a thousand words!
Use interesting fonts….but make sure they are clear and easy to read

6. Durability!

Avoid your display becoming tatty. After your display has been up for a day or so, it may begin to look old and tatty – borders peel off, pictures curl up, that wonderful 3D shape you used becomes too heavy for the glue and falls down. Rips occur, pages fall off…

Don’t ‘rush’ it.

Here are some examples of great displays from previous years:

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