1. Oral Presentation Workshop You must send a copy of your PowerPoint presentation to jheard@bnl.gov by 5:00pm Wednesday. jheard@bnl.gov You should arrive at your speaking place by 8:30am Thursday morning. You should bring your poster with you to your speaking place. It will be displayed outside of your speaking place.

2. Where do you go? Biology/Medical - Medical (Building #490) in the Large Conference Room. Physics – Biology (Building #463) in the Biology Seminar Room. Chemistry – Chemistry (Building #555) in the Hamilton Seminar Room. Env/Eng/Other – Berkner Hall (Building 488) in the Main Auditorium. You must be there by 8:30am on Thursday morning!!!

3. The Presentation 12 minutes duration (10 minute presentation, 2 minutes Q & A) There will be a facilitator to load your presentation. Remember the purpose of your presentation is to communicate the important points of your research to other scientist.

4. The three parts of a speech The Speaker The Presentation The Structure

5. The Speaker – You! Avoid mumbling, monotone speaking and obscure terminology. Be engaging, show personality and maintain eye contact. You are a speaker not a reader!

6. The Presentation- PowerPoint “A picture is worth a thousand words, a graph is worth a thousand numbers.” Demonstrations, models, short videos are all allowed. “Less is more” use as few PowerPoint slides as possible.

7. The Structure-What to do Clearly introduce yourself Tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, then tell them what you just told them. Give a little background on your subject. Describe how your research fit into the big picture. Give your results and conclusions What went wrong, problems…. What’s next.

8. Q and A If you do not know, say you do not know. It’s not that bad!!!