Back to ASCII E_Ezine

Mukesh Vispute
Education Manager

• It should be a work done totally by students. They should not just by heart the speech given by their teacher.
• They should know the topic on which they are speaking. They should be confident and have good command over the language.
• How ever we are not expecting that technically they are masters in the topic. But considering their age and exposure which they get about IT they should be aware of the topic.
• Its ok if they select simple topic but their presentation should be good.
  There is not point in selecting the latest topic and have no knowledge about it. In such cases students just read the speech given by their lecturers and
  are not able to answer the simple questions asked by the judges, instead its better to select the simple topic as per their age and present it confidently.
• Also in case of online projects they should know the features of the presentation software which they have used in their project.
  For e.g. if their presentation is in Power Point and they have included certain transition effect or downloaded pictures they should know how to do it.
• Also in many cases I have noticed that students download the pictures from net. But when we ask them from which site the pictures are down loaded, they are not aware of it.
  They just say goggle.
  But goggle is the search engine through which they access the particular site
  but students are not aware of this and they say that the pictures are taken from goggle.com which is the wrong answer.
• In case of models, it should be prepared by students and they should be on the topics related to IT. I have noticed that students of few schools whose financial condition is good don't prepare the models. They bring the actual equipments like lap tops, different types of mobile phones etc. This is wrong though it is impressive.
• They can use these equipments as an example to supplement their explanation but not as their project. Because while judging it will be injustice with the students who take efforts in making their models and cannot afford to buy such costly equipments.
• The charts they prepare must be clearly readable with the explanation written in points and not in paragraphs which judges or visitors cannot read. They can draw or stick different pictures to explain their points so the charts are not totally text oriented and will look attractive.
• The explanation should also be short and sweet and not like a big lecture.
  Because if each team explains for 15-20 minutes and if there are 20 teams, it will take almost 3- 4 hrs. for judging.