My group's presentation on industrial smog
My groups presentation on industrial smog took place on Thursday. February 23 at around 9am. Over the course of two days, our APES class experienced and presented a total of four presentations. This ranged from the ozone depletion, photochemical smog, and acid rain and mercury.
Acid Rain and Mercury deposition: Good presentation, great visuals. I liked the current connection to their topic. Missed on describing impacts of Mercury.
Photo courtesy of Whitney Hollenbeck
Photochemical smog or brown smog: Interesting format but it worked. Good content and speaking beyond the text on the slides. Less visually simulating than I would like.
Stratospheric ozone: Good content but read verbatim off the slides . I liked their visual vids.
Photos courtesy of Whitney Hollenbeck
This presentation that served as a good way to flex our knowledge on the topic of air pollution and dive deep into a certain area of our unit in a fun, collaborative way. On top of this, these presentation also served as test prep for up upcoming quiz on this topic. We covered important terms like point and nonpoint sources to primary and secondary pollutants, and all of these found themselves in each presentation. Speaking of things that ended up in every presentation, the Clean Air Act of 1970. My partners and I enjoyed the presentation format, my partner Whitney even said, "I am so glad we are doing this instead of a blog post." I agreed with Whitney in the moment, yet here I am.
A presentation I would like to highlight was the second presentation on photochemical smog. Luke, Kellen, and An started off in a fashion that had me a little sceptical on the strength of delivery and passion they had for their project. This was because of their all black text on a white background. My scepticism ended abruptly when Luke became shooting of the hip so to speak in his delivery his information. With no text in sight Luke displayed an extremely comprehensive stick figure animation on the process of photochemical smog. Its simplicity with the color way and your basic stickers of the sun and clouds stuck with me and helped me not only remember a comical presentation but also remember the important details I need for the quiz. Oh, and Alans golf ball simulation was fun too. My personal favorite quote is a quote of mine. The slip-up I had in my first sentence, on the first slide was a great wake up call and helped me lock in for the rest of our presentation. The slip-up was me trying to explain the Etymology of the word smog, it is as follows, "The word smog is a mixture of the words smog and fog." Clearly I meant to say the word smoke, which was in text on the screen. However, despite this, my peer Mark still said, "Wow Conrad, that was embarrassing, you should feel ashamed" after we wrapped up our presentation. It's nice to know the culture of constant support and upliftingness at Proctor is still enacted.