3 Minute Thesis

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3 Minute Thesis

  • Date: March 7, 2018
  • Role: Presenter (Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Multidisciplinary Heat)
  • Contest Description: The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is an academic competition hosted in over 350 universities. Graduate students have only three minutes to explain the breadth and significance of their research project to a non-specialist audience. Participants are allowed only one powerpoint slide (left).
  • Presentation Script: Mackenzie Canyon: a Submarine Oasis
  • Feedback from Judges:
    • engaging, good presentation
    • extremely clear and logically explained
    • cadence was good, great hand gesturing
    • nice use of rhetorical questions and organizational structure
    • context given at the end, should prompt the audience as to why this is important at beginning