L1 Goal: Share The Plan & Report Progress

By Level 1: Regionals day, each project team should have moved on from the project pitch phase (local Level i)  and began to "do" their project. Level 1 is about giving judges a Progress Report to share where your project stands. 

• Use feedback from local Level i pitches to make your presentation stronger!

• Utilize technology tools to take advantage of the online meeting platform (slide deck instead of printed posters, etc.)

• Rely on the 7 Guiding Questions to build focused presentations.

• Be sure responses to the 7 Guiding Questions are clear.

• Prep for 5-7 minute presentation. While window is 10 minutes, this allows time  for overcoming technical challenges at beginning and time to answer questions at end..

• It’s ok to finish in less than 10 minutes… but not ok to go over.

• Prepare a clear ending: help judges know your presentation is concluded and you’re ready for questions.

• Find a quiet space with limited distractions for giving presentations, but practice dealing with interruptions to keep things smooth.

• The Level 1 rubric/scoring guide tells you exactly what the judges will be scoring. Take advantage of the rubric!

• Keep your presentation original and always purposefully show you have permission to use anyone else’s digital property.
  
  

Project Title Pointers:

Good titles are descriptive, but succinct and memorable. 

Register actual titles. Generic placeholder project titles, such as "Our School Project 1", create problems and should be avoided. 

Avoid overly long titles. If it looks like a title of a scholarly article in a professional journal, it's too long. :)

At Level 1, project titles can be temporary.