Your Senior Local Presentation is a formal address that takes place at your local school, before a panel of evaluators. It should summarize your entire experience and critical learning from your BRVGS Senior Project, and should follow the guidelines below:
1. The presentation should last about 12 minutes, after which evaluators and audience members will have 5 minutes for questions.
2. The presentation should tell the "story" of your professional learning experience, research and community service, and should address the following:
What was your overall topic, and why did you choose this particular topic?
What was your research question, and what did you discover in your research?
What did you do for your PLE and community service, and who were your mentors and supervising adults?
What was "significant" about your PLE and community service?
What did you learn about yourself through this experience?
What might you have done differently if you had this to do again, and/or what advice would you give to future BRVGS Seniors?
What are your future plans?
3. Your verbal presentation should be accompanied by some kind of media (Google Presentation, slideshow, etc) as a backdrop.
Real photographs of you during your PLE/community service are great
Use as few words as possible. If you are just going to have a picture and a title, drop the title and make the picture as large as possible!
Instead of putting two pictures on one slide, put them each on their own and make them BIG!
Bullets - make sure they are VERY valuable - if they are just a list of topics, do not use them - you're going to talk about them anyway.
Remember that YOU are the presentation and the "media" is just for setting the stage for what you are saying
It is STRONGLY advised to have your advisor and Mrs. Outten look over your presentation
4. Students must be dressed appropriately for a formal academic presentation. See the Senior Expo Dress Guidelines for more information.
5. Students should make their presentation facing their audience, without a podium, and without reading directly from Powerpoint or notes. If notes must be used, they should be on a single note card.
6. A Google Presentations version of your presentation should be embedded on your senior site and made public to the world.
7. Google Presentations should be named in this manner - FirstIntialLastNameCountyYear (ex. SOuttenMC2016) and shared with present@brvgs.k12.va.us AT LEAST three days before your school presentation (or whatever date your Senior Advisor sets). Your presentation should be shared so that the "present@brvgs.k12.va.us" account is able to edit your presentation.
8. Students who have not successfully completed the basic requirements of the program prior to their school's presentation date or are not properly dressed for the occasion, will not be allowed to take part in the presentation. Senior Advisors and the BRVGS Director have the sole responsibility for making decisions regarding student participation in presentations.
See the BRVGS Senior Presentation Rubric for details on how the presentation will be evaluated.