Class Presentation

Your class presentation needs to be between 8 and 10 minutes. You need to have a slide deck for your presentation. You may use a short video clip and talk over it to us at times. Live demos are a challenge so if you have a demo portion, practice it well! Presentations should "wow" us and leave us understanding what you did and why. Time spent talking about things that went wrong is typically "wasted" time in the class presentation. The written report can discuss such things, but they usually do nothing to serve the goal of the presentation.

Each team needs to sign up for one time-slot: http://doodle.com/8bezdf6iwqpiesms. Regardless of presentation date, your slide deck will be due to egolubUMD@gmail.com by April 23rd.

Poster

Each team will also submit a PowerPoint file that represents a poster showcasing their project. The main idea of the poster is to have 3-5 good visuals to convey what you've done, and highlight key points via them as well as large text. The provided template can be changed between the two thick green horizontal lines to suit your project and style, but please leave the rest of the layout as-is for uniformity.

Written Report

The final project submission will take many forms based on the variety of projects undertaken. If you have created a website as the main artifact or as part of your project, please give links to that at the start of your report. If there is an app that I need to download or install, please mention that at the start of your report and tell me from where I can obtain it. The report itself will also take many forms. Below I list the types of things all reports need to present, but the emphasis will vary based on your individual project. Much of the information you need is likely in your weekly reports, but it might need to be organized and processed to make a good report.

The report should present information such as:

• Overview of what you have created and how it aligns with your original final proposal.
• The process you followed in creating your work and how you learned new things via this process.
• A list of references to related work (scholarly papers, web sites, etc) with a short comment on how each reference relates to your project's domain or your work.
• The results of your work, especially if it was primarily a core research project.
• Any benefits to others of your project.
• Reactions and/or feedback from others about your project.
• Lessons you learned over the course of the semester that you can apply to future projects.

You will turn in your report document as a PDF file via e-mail to me at egolubUMD@gmail.com by the above date. For ease of reading, please have paragraphs single-spaced but have an extra blank line between paragraphs. If you quote or paraphrase any sources, make sure you cite them. You may use any citation style with which you are comfortable, but you must cite sources whether directly used in the report or used as you were working on your project.