1. Your Poster Title Here (Use Large Font between 72 and 96 Pt) Your name here, Degree Name, Texas A&M University Company or Organization Hosting Your Internship Name Here Company Description (section headings 40-48 pt font) Relationship to Career Goals Internship Objectives References Description of Experience Provide a general description of the company or organization where you did your internship and describe the specific branch/department/part of the company you worked with. Text here and throughout the poster should be 20-30 pt. Keep in mind that readers will be viewing this poster from a distance. Use pictures and figures as appropriate here and throughout the poster. Conveying information with minimal text in posters makes for a better experience for you, the presenter, and your audience, when the poster is presented in a public setting. It is excellent to include pictures (with descriptive legends) that show you doing aspects of your role in the internship. The section layout shown in this template is flexible. Move and resize each as is necessary for you to convey your project. Use color, graphics and layout and most importantly your judgment to make the poster attractive as well as informative. It is not suggested you move the order of the section headings though. Additional detailed instructions about effective research posters are available from the Texas A&M writing center: http://writingcenter.tamu.edu/Students/Handouts-Guides/Guides- (What-Are-You-Writing-)/Academic-Writing/Research-Postershttp://writingcenter.tamu.edu/Students/Handouts-Guides/Guides- (What-Are-You-Writing-)/Academic-Writing/Research-Posters Concisely list your personally developed internship objectives. Concisely describe the experience, highlighting accomplishments, lessons learned or important projects which helped you grow professionally. Use pictures and figures as appropriate. Summarize the relevance and significance of the internship to your career goals. Such summaries should describe and reflect upon professional activities you engaged in and how these activities will assist you in your future career. Use pictures and figures as appropriate. Insert full citation for journal articles or other resource you utilized in assembling this poster. Be sure to include in-text citations where appropriate. Acknowledgements This is where you thank anyone who helped you conduct your internship who is not listed as an author at the top of the poster. This might be someone who provided technical help or who advised or mentored you. It is also important to thank the source of your funding. Thanking people of a personal nature (e.g. your spouse or parents is not appropriate on a poster). { Please be sure to include the following sentence verbatim at the end of your acknowledgements} Sponsors for high impact experiences for BESC and the BESC poster symposium include the Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs.