Beginnings of the Presentation

            I am really excited that I will be able to slow down the workload this week. Since my actual book is complete, I can spend time working on all of the “extra” projects that come with working on a senior project. After lunch today, I began working on the PowerPoint presentation for the Upper School. Everyone cites this presentation as the reason why they would not like to do a senior project. Coming from many years of Speech and Debate, I am actually incredibly excited about sharing my project with the Upper School. The most difficult part about the presentation will definitely be trying to limit my speech to five minutes. Although this may seem like a pretty long time, five minutes can actually go by incredibly quickly (especially when trying to recap a full month of hard work). I started my creation of the presentation by thinking about the various aspects of my project that I hope to speak about the most. I really want to try to mix up the order of the presentation because I remember feeling like all of the senior project presentations got incredibly repetitive. After watching a TedTalk about the best order to present information, I decided to follow the “why, how, what” model. First, I will speak about why Siempre Verde is so important to me, then about how I can increase support for the program at Lovett, and finally what I ultimately created to achieve this goal.

            I created my presentation on Keynote because I am most comfortable with this application. I tried to think about the aspects of senior project presentations that I really liked and really did not like from the past. For example, I remembered really not liking presentations where the seniors would simply read text off of the screen. So, I limited myself to simply a few words on each slide so that I would not feel tempted to continually be looking at the screen. I also tried to add as many images as I could to give people visuals throughout the presentation. Although I was not able to complete the whole presentation today, I really like how it is coming together and cannot wait to finish it tomorrow.