Final Technical Presentation

For my final presentation I changed my topic from how solar cells function to proper rowing technique. I think this was a good change because I had already talked about solar power in Germany for my baseline speech and I felt like I needed to change the topic to make things more interesting. I definitely enjoyed preparing for this speech because I know a lot about rowing and have lots of experience doing it. I was really happy with my presentation. Rowing, especially rowing terminology can be a little tricky to those who don't know much about it. The part of powerpoint where I talked about the stroke and broke down each part of it by showing pictures was a really good idea. In each picture, I try to emphasize that the main objective in rowing is to maximize the positive force and minimize the negative force.I drew block arrows, angles, etc. to help illustrate this idea. I thought the best part was the video of U.S. men's Olympic 8 at Athens in 2004. After looking at each part of the rowing stroke, it's nice to see it being all put together . There's nothing better than watching the men's 8 row down the course. I though my hook for the presentation was pretty good and relevant. Mentioning that the Vikings longship was the prototype for the modern day crew shell was pretty interesting. As always, I need to work on feeling more comfortable in front of the audience. By that, I mean I need to start eventually moving in front of the audience instead of behind the podium. I hope I'll be able to do this by the end of the semester. At times I spoke a little fast and seemed to be a little nervous. During the presentation I looked back at the slides a little bit instead of keeping my eye contact on the audience. Overall it was a good presentation but there are some recurring themes from previous presentations that I still need to work on.