Week 10: Presentations

Liam k -

Hi Everyone, this blog post I want to go more into what my presentations look like and what I am doing to prepare for next week. I did my practice AP Research presentation earlier today, and got a lot of good feedback. I can probably finish it in a few hours, so I am not too worried about that. I have my practice Senior Project presentation tomorrow, and met with my advisor (Thanks Mr. McDowell!) today to go over that. Right now it still needs some work, and I foresee some late nights in my future. I also have my AP Research Paper due tonight that still needs some work. Anyways, on to my presentation

Right now, I am trying to use one presentation for both things, but might have to add/remove a couple slides for consistency. The AP research presentation needs to focus more on my methodologies, and justification of my decisions in the project, while I want my senior project presentation to focus more on the experience of working in a lab and my internship as a whole, which I’m a lot more excited to talk about.

Graphs

This, along with just practicing my presentation, are the biggest hurdles I’m facing with my presentations right now. I spent at least an hour yesterday just looking through 200 page climate reports to find the right graphics for my presentation. I finally found one’s that are good enough, but might still try to find better ones. This process has also introduced me to the wonderful world of Google sheets graphs, which has been a bit of a challenge to navigate. I’ll attach some of the graphs at the bottom of this blog.

Differences

I want to emphasize the differences between my paper and presentation. The major change is the exclusion of correlation matrices, just because I don’t want to run out of time. I’m also cutting out most of my literature review, in favor of some more concise quotes from the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change), and just using one or two sources (Blondes et al., Sandalow et al.) for all of my explanation of carbon mineralization and research justification.

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    katie_b
    Hi Liam! Those graphs look very interesting, and I'm excited to learn more about them when you present next week. As someone who is not in AP Research, I was wondering if there is one presentation that you are more worried about? The AP Research one or the Senior Project one?
    May 1, 2025 at 12:10 pm - Reply
    catherine_f
    Hi Liam! You mentioned having to cut parts of your paper from the presentation. Is there anything you have cut that you really wish could have stayed in the presentation?
    May 1, 2025 at 12:48 pm - Reply
      liam_k
      Hi Catie! My advisor is using the data to look at Fe oxidation within the samples, which looks really cool and I wish I could include it in my presentations. I also made some correlation matrices that show dependence of one element on another, but I think I am already over my 15 minutes, and can't include them :( .
      May 2, 2025 at 1:40 pm - Reply
    riley_b
    Hello Liam. What part of your project do you think enjoyed the most?
    May 2, 2025 at 1:51 pm - Reply
    cindy_h
    Hi Liam! I have also been fighting Google Sheets battles, so I totally understand the challenges it can pose, especially trying to get it to present data the way you want it. I'm excited to see everything you've done soon though! With your graphs and results, is there one finding that you find particularly insightful or interesting? (or maybe you'll be sharing that at the senior project presentation, and I'm getting ahead of myself 🙃)
    May 4, 2025 at 5:51 pm - Reply

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