1. Title of Poster Author(s) of Poster, Mentor Name Occidental College, Department
Text Box: We recommend at least pt fonts. You can add a border to the text box by right clicking on it and then choosing “format text box”. But it is not necessary. You may want an introduction, or a statement of your question, or an abstract.
This is a frog
This is a stack of books
from the library
To re-size a picture:
You can resize a picture by dragging a corner or side of it – remember, in order to keep the proportions correct, you must drag the corner, not the side of the picture.
You can create tables or charts to display your data, or save a table as an image file and insert it into your poster.
To insert text:
Click on the insert menu and then on the text box. The cursor then looks like a sword. Choose where you want the upper left corner of the box to be and then click and drag. The box will only be one line big until you put your text into it and it will expand to meet the size of your text. Alternatively, you can paste in text from Word. You can also change the size, font, color, etc of your text by selecting the text you want to edit and going to the format menu, then click on font.
Acknowledgements: Please remember to thank the funding sources for your research.
Support for this project was provided by a fellowship from a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Science Education Grant and the Undergraduate Research Center.

2. explain all of your project! It just needs to invite
To insert and format a chart:
Click on the insert chart button, the one that looks like a bar graph, or go to the insert menu and choose chart. PowerPoint automatically opens a standard set of options – a datasheet and a chart. When it does this, right click on the picture of the one that is most similar to what you have in mind and select chart type, then select the type of chart you would like to make. Enter your data as appropriate into the data table provided. You may have to rearrange your data to fit the form that the program expects. You can paste in data from another source, such as Excel, but you may have to reformat the data depending upon the type of chart you are trying to create – for example, your data might be in rows and you need to have columns. Usually right clicking on the part you need to edit will allow you to do so.
To change colors on your chart you must change the Slide Color Scheme. To do this, click on the Format menu and select Slide Color Scheme from it. That will open a new window. In that window select the custom tab. To change the colors, simply click on the color you would like to change and then click the change color button and choose your color.
To insert a data table:
Use the button with the X on it (just to the left of the chart button) and then select your table size. Note: You can later change the table size. The table will show up initially looking much like an Excel table and editing it works just about the same, using right clicks to get to the editing functions. You can change the size of your table (which will add or remove cells) by dragging the small black boxes on each side or on the corner. Note: the gray cell lines WILL print on your document.
Transduction
Plate
Number of Colonies 1 -1
contaminants
(200μL 109JKAIRf + -2
500 μL Mombo1/AgSa) -3
contaminants + 1 Bdello -4
No growth 2
1 Bdello
50 μL Mombo1/AgSa) 3
5 μL Mombo1/AgSa) 4
0 μL Mombo1/AgSa) 5
(0μL 109JKAIRf +
To insert a photo or clip art:
Go to the Insert menu, and select picture for a photo
like this one of the birds in the Moore Lab. For clip art:
Select clip art and then chose the item you want, such
as this search for library books.
Remember that your
poster does not need to
explain all of your project!
It just needs to invite
interest. You will be standing there to answer questions and
can explain what it’s all about. Just make it look interesting
so people want to approach and learn more!