Presentation and communication

Explain what a technology project report or dossier is and what minimum sections it should include.

What is an "elevator pitch"? Explain approximately how long it lasts, what its purpose is, and which three ideas it must contain.

The figure summarises the structure of a project presentation, but the last step is missing. State which step it is and what content it should have.

Differentiate between a poster and a slide as formats for communicating a project: what changes in the amount of text, font size and the way people "navigate" them.

A slide has sixteen lines of text in small font and the presenter reads it all, word for word. Point out two communication problems in this scenario and explain how to fix them.

Design the structure of a scientific poster about your project: blocks it will have, visual hierarchy (what is seen first) and what should be understandable in just 30 seconds of looking at it.

Your team has designed a waste sorter with a colour sensor and a servomotor for the workshop, but the final cost (42,50 €) exceeded the budget limit of 30,00 € and the detection reliability is 82 % under variable ambient light. Design the script for an elevator pitch presentation of exactly 2 minutes before the school management team to convince them to fund an improved version. Structure the time in second blocks, write the impactful opening, explain how you will justify the extra cost and technical margin of error without losing credibility, and formulate a clear call to action.

A classmate has to present the development of an IoT weather station in 4 minutes, but intends to merely read aloud the 12 pages of the technical report (including sensor calibration tables and full component lists). Design an analytical co-evaluation rubric to guide their rehearsals before the final presentation. The rubric must cover four technical criteria (information hierarchy, visual aid design, terminological rigour, and time management), defining observable and measurable descriptors for each at three levels: 'Insufficient', 'Acceptable', and 'Excellent'.

Analyse the following excerpt from an oral project presentation: «Hello, we made this robotic arm because we were too lazy to pick up parts by hand, haha. The gripper failed 70 % of the time and we almost burned the workshop down by misconnecting a transistor, it was a fun disaster. But hey, the servos have a torque of 9,8 kg·cm and the rubber's coefficient of friction is 0,65, so in theory it works great». Identify three serious errors of tone, credibility, and technical rigour in the speech. Then, rewrite the passage, turning the transistor failure and the gripper error into a constructive technical argument that demonstrates learning and error engineering.

You are going to present the same prototype twice: to your classmates and to a panel of business professionals. Explain what you would change between both presentations in terms of language, level of detail and duration.

Your audience is families without technical background. Rewrite these two sentences so they understand them without losing accuracy: "the equivalent resistance of the circuit is $350\ \Omega$" and "the part was obtained using additive manufacturing".

During the defence of an automated Arduino greenhouse, the panel raises two critical objections: 1) 'If the power supply or Wi-Fi network fails, the plants die in a matter of hours because you have not provided manual redundancy or an acoustic alert'; 2) 'You claim the system saves 35,5 % of water, but you have only recorded measurements over 3 winter days'. Design the technical response strategy for both objections: acknowledge the prototype's limitations with technical honesty, justify what design constraints led to those decisions, and propose the specific hardware and testing improvements you would implement in a second phase.