Carlota Bonnet

This was the first conference I attended. During the three days we were in Orlando, I attended various presentations. This helped me realize what methods work best to present the content in an interesting way to the audience.

 

Indeed, some presentations were very interesting but lacked in efficiency. Other needed a better visual aid. For example, someone presented on relevant words in PowerPoint presentations, and how visual aids could be improved; however, he did this without a visual aid, and I thought this defeated the purpose of his speech. 

 

Other presentations were mildly interesting, but the Q&A following them were captivating. Indeed, I thought the Q&A were often as interesting —if not more interesting— as the presentations themselves. Since each session regrouped two or three presentations on the same general topic, the questions were frequently answered by all the presenters, each with their particular point of view.

 

I presented a poster, explaining my chemistry research project on the Synthesis of Aspirin. During the poster exhibition, I stayed near mine in order to answer the questions I was asked. I thought poster presentations were hard, since most people don't stay long examining each poster. I learned my poster wasn't as efficient as it could have been. In order to increase the curiosity of people watching it, I should have included more pictures, and less text. Indeed, most people aren't interested in a poster with too much text, but are attracted to pictures. This make them approach the poster, and they read it out of curiosity.