THE PRESENTATION POST
This post's privacy is set to Everyone. This post showcases your final design by telling the comprehensive story of how your idea was born, developed, and manifested. The arc of the story should encompass the, How of your project in a compelling narrative. It showcases your design process including your brainstorming, each of your iterations, and your final prototype. It allows the viewer to delve deeply into your process.
You are encouraged to make your narrative as compelling as possible. All of the content below should be included, but if you would like to rearrange the material in order to tell your story differently, work with your coach.
INTRODUCTION PORTION
Your presentation is a narrative, and the introduction sets up the scene for that story. Here you introduce the project, say why it is important, and summarize what you did.
TITLE WITH TAGLINE: This slides shows a crisp, clear final image and the title of your project. with a pithy blurb describing the project. The image, name, and tagline should draw a viewer in.
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EVOCATIVE IMAGE: This is a single image that shows a clear image that evokes the soul of your project. This image helps set up the why in a compelling way, sets the stage for your narrative, and will help frame the entire presentation. The caption of this slide (set with the Edit Captions button when editing your post) should discuss the context of your project. No Text on the slide.
THESIS STATEMENT: This is a TEXT ONLY slide for which briefly describes the Soul and Body of your project. You can use the project description from your Brief or write something new. This statement ties together your narrative.
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PROCESS PORTION
The Process Portion of your presentation tells the story of how you iteratively developed your project. Somewhere in that story you should include conceptual and technical precedents that guided you at each stage as well as brainstorming and process sketches and clear photo booth imagery for 3-4 stages of your process.
This portion is made up of three types of slides repeated 3-4 times. Each iteration in your process should include:
FINAL PORTION
The Final stage of your presentation is the resolution of your narrative and shows your completed work. The use diagram shows how your project works and the construction diagram shows how it is assembled. Final photos show the project both in action and at rest. The imagery captures your final built design.
USE DIAGRAM: A diagram showing some aspect of the functionality. These can include:
MECHANICAL DIAGRAM: A diagram offering insight on how the project is put together and functions technically.
ELECTRONICS or OTHER DIAGRAM: Additional diagrams showing some important aspect of your design.
IMAGERY: The last slides should have an images of the final project. These images should be taken in the photo booth, cropped, and adjusted for contrast, brightness, etc. Images should include:
This organization travels the world to rid our oceans of plastic waste and debris. This is an amazing company because not only do they save animals in the ocean, but the plastic they collect can be reused for the products we want.
Kiva Microfunds is a 501 non-profit organization that allows people to lend money via the Internet to low-income entrepreneurs and students in over 80 countries. Kiva's mission is "to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty.
My idea is a reusable "heavy duty" cup that is able to be bought or received at sports games, that are able to be refilled at any time, at a set charge per season. Lot's of bottle and plastic cups and straws are left on the ground. Maing these reuable cups will make it easier, ans more affordable. It will cut down lines at sports stadiums and reduce plastic.
Tesla is a car company solely making electric cars solar panels and other electric products. They are the trailblazers of the industry and have successfully made a large business making only green products. The reason this is such a good precedent is that they only do good but are also a legit brand that people want.
Lego. Lego is a president as they are using sugar cane plastic in their new bricks. sugar cane is a natural plastic, that is good for the enivorment as it comes from plants, and is biodegradable. They also are using this plastic to help stop plastic ending up in the ocean as sugar can is biodegraible
More than 1.7 billion people around the world are unbanked and can’t access the financial services they need. Kiva is an international nonprofit, founded in 2005 in San Francisco, with a mission to expand financial access to help underserved communities thrive. You loan money to people all over the world through Kiva. The people who receive the money use it to start their business and repay their loans with no interests. There are 3.2 million borrowers throughout 80 countries. There have been 1.29 Billion dollars lent through Kiva.