Showcase Practice

Today’s Agenda (70 Minutes)

• (70 minutes) Logistics Practice with Capstone

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Today we will be practicing for the showcase. For things to go smoothly it is important for every team and every student to know their roles and responsibilities. The following is the schedule for all presentations:

Round A - Monday April 20, 12:30-1:00pm

1. Joyntly - User Engagement
2. TeliAI - Agentic Campaign Insight Analyzer
3. MSU - Curriculum Analytics
4. Luce - Lumber

Round B - Monday April 20, 1:10-1:40pm

1. Kellanova - Demand Forecasting
2. ToolsForHumanity - IRIS Recognition
3. WBPD - Crash Safety
4. MSU - Southwest Lansing Project

Round A - Wednesday April 22, 12:30-1:00pm

1. Bradford White - Data-Driven Design
2. CEPI - Effective Communications
3. Customers Lens - Entrepreneurial Challenges
4. NCEAS - Unsupervised NLP

Round B - Wednesday April 22, 1:10-1:40pm

1. Bradford White - Water Leak Detection
2. Henry Ford Health - Video Segmentation
3. Delta Dental - Canonical Mouth Dataset Development
4. UofM - Civil Rights Litigation Website

Here is the agenda for both days:

Showcase Agenda (70 Minutes)

1. Welcome & Setup – 5 minutes
2. Lightning Talks (Round A) – 20 minutes
3. Discussion and Questions – 10 minutes
4. Lightning Talks (Round B) – 20 minutes
5. Discussion and Questions – 10 minutes
6. Wrap-Up & Closing Remarks – 5 minutes

During Welcome setup, Everyone will help move tables and set up the room. Round A presenting teams grab the HDMI cables from the cart, plug their computer and HDMI cables into the projectors and set up their presentation slide.

During Lightning Talks - The instructor will pass around the microphone and the presenting teams will give a 3-5 minute project overview. All team members are encouraged (not required) to participate in the presentation.- While one group presents, the other teams and visitors will be the audience.

During Discussion and Questions - The audience will have the opportunity to talk with teams that are presenting and ask questions about their project. Discussions during the poster session should be flexible and dynamic, allowing visitors to ask questions and engage with the team.

• Teams should be prepared to:
  • Give demos
  • Answer questions
  • Provide additional visuals
• Consider assigning roles within your team:
  • Greeter: Welcomes visitors and starts conversations
  • Demo Lead: Runs code or shows interactive elements
  • Subject Expert: Answers detailed questions
• Be adaptable and keep the conversation flowing until it is time to rotate!

During Wrap-up, We will try to move discussions into the Hall eveyone move tables and reset the room. Round B presenting teams will will pack up the HDMI cables and put them on the cart.

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Evaluation

On the day your team is NOT presenting your team is expected to coordinate and review the presentations. Each person is expected to do a minimum of 2 reviews. Coordinate it so that at least one person on your team reviews each of the other teams so that every team get’s some feedback from your team. Feel free to work together to make this work. The following is a link to the review form. Guests to the event are also welcome to provide feedback:

Every student is required to submit a feedback form for the teams NOT in their tripod. Visitors may also fill out this form.

• Direct Link to Feedback Form

Written by Dr. Dirk Colbry, Michigan State University
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.