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Student Showcase

Presentation Categories

Which Presentation Type Is Best For You?

If you:

  • Are comfortable speaking to or performing for larger groups (Reading, Performance)
  • Are comfortable speaking to people on a one-on-one basis (Poster, Table)
  • Don’t mind repeating your explanation several times over the course of an hour (Poster, Table)
  • Want to display 2D or 3D artwork (Art Exhibition)
  • Want to perform a scene from a play, poetry, musical composition, or dance number that you or a group of students have prepared or written (Reading, Performance)
  • Will be using a computer, microscope, scientific specimens, or archaeological specimens in your presentation (Table)

If you have any additional questions as you select your presentation option and list your presentation requirements, please first contact the faculty mentor whose name you will include on your entry form and/or someone in your department who can more fully explain how a particular kind of presentation works in your field.

If you have questions that cannot be answered by your professors/project mentors, please send your question to library@niagaracc.suny.edu.

Art Exhibitions

Art Exhibition involves displaying 2D or 3D artwork to an audience at a specific time.

  • Be prepared to describe your work in just a few minutes and to answer questions–probably to several people as they walk by your exhibit throughout the session.
  • Consider producing at least one text panel that explains the rationale/inspiration for the project and any relevant reflection on the result of the project. This will help viewers to understand your project when you are not available to discuss it.
  • Do not expect to store any other materials at the exhibition session site, as the location may be open to the public (not secure). Bring all other belongings with you for your assigned session and take them away with you when you leave.
  • Exhibition space will NOT have access to electricity.
  • If you have specific display requirements (e.g., a pedestal, easel, etc.), please be sure to describe your needs in full in the REQUIREMENTS section of your application form.
  • Your artwork will be on display all day at a location assigned by the Showcase Planning Committee. You will be assigned a specific time frame (about one hour), to stand by your work.

View ‘Art Exhibitions’ rubric.
View Creating a Poster for Student Showcase.
View Poster-making for 11” x 17” Poster Guide.

Maggie Ralph ’18 at Student Showcase

Online/Zoom

The “Online/Zoom Project” will be a hybrid version of the poster project with a printed poster at the Showcase site and the presenter being available remotely through a zoom link.

  • A poster portion of the project is a two-dimensional version of a research paper or oral presentation, displayed on a wall.
  • Funds in the Student Showcase budget allow covering the cost of printing a single poster for a student on a first-come, first-served basis.
  • Posters may be several small mounted panels of text and images or one large computer-printed sheet of paper. This may include some two-dimensional graphic arts projects.
  • Posters must be no larger than 36 inches high by 48 inches wide.
  • Your poster will be hung on walls, panels, or easels and be on display all day at a location assigned by the Showcase Planning Committee.
  • You will be assigned a specific time frame during which you will link to the showcase via zoom to explain the project and answer questions judges may have.

View ‘Online/Zoom Projects’ rubric.
View Online/Zoom Guidelines and Instructions.
View Creating a Poster for Student Showcase.

One of the presentations during the Student Showcase.

Poster Projects

A “Poster Project” is a two-dimensional version of a research paper or oral presentation, displayed on a wall.

  • Do not expect to store any other materials at the poster session site, as the location may be open to the public (not secure). Bring all other belongings with you for your assigned poster session and take them away with you when you leave.
  • Funds in the Student Showcase budget allow covering the cost of printing a single poster for a student on a first-come, first-served basis.
  • Poster sessions will NOT have tables or access to electricity.
  • Posters may be several small mounted panels of text and images or one large computer-printed sheet of paper. This may include some two-dimensional graphic arts projects.
  • Posters must be no larger than 36 inches high by 48 inches wide.
  • Your poster will be hung on walls, panels, or easels and be on display all day at a location assigned by the Showcase Planning Committee.
  • You will be assigned a specific time frame (about one hour), during which you will stand with your poster to explain the project and answer questions observers may have.

View ‘Poster Projects’ rubric.
View Poster Guidelines and Instructions.
View Creating a Poster for Student Showcase.

Student Showcase

Readings or Performances

  • A good guideline is to complete your reading or performance within a 5 or 10-minute time slot.
  • Although not necessary, you may want to leave some time to answer questions, provide reflections on the experience, or present a post-log for the piece.
  • Factor in a small amount of time to introduce or “set the stage” or provide context for the excerpt of an edited performance or reading. You may know the relevance of your performance, but many in the audience may not.
  • If you have specific media requirements (e.g., a podium, a microphone, a sound system with speakers, etc.), please be sure to describe your needs in full in the REQUIREMENTS section of your application form.
  • Readings or performances involve the presentation of poem, dramatic reading, or performance (theatrical, musical, dance, etc.) to an audience at a specified time.
  • This may mean selectively reading a portion of the poems or portion in your writing project or performing a limited number of scenes in your theatrical project.

View ‘Readings or Performances’ rubric.
View Poster-making for 11” x 17” Poster Guide.
View Creating a Poster for Student Showcase.

performance at Student Showcase

Table Projects

A “Table Project” displays your project materials on a table likely placed in a hallway or other open area.

  • Be prepared to describe your project in just a few minutes and to answer questions–probably to several people as they walk by your table throughout the session.
  • Consider producing at least one text panel that explains the rationale/inspiration for the project and any relevant reflection on the result of the project. This will help viewers to understand your project when you are not available to discuss it.
  • If you need an electrical outlet to power a lamp, laptop, microscope, or another safe electrical device you require for an effective presentation, please write that you require electrical outlet(s) in the REQUIREMENTS section of your application form.
  • If you plan on including any 2-dimensional graphics (a map, photographs, 2-D artwork, or graphs), please be sure to specify your display requirements on your entry form (e.g., wall space size required, etc.).
  • Project display materials may include a tri-fold poster, a laptop computer, or other objects. You may combine objects placed on a table and a poster displayed on the wall behind your table.
  • You should plan to have any poster components of your table display available all day, but DO NOT leave your computer or other valuable objects on display when you are not present.
  • You will be assigned a time to man your table (typically a one-hour time frame).

View ‘Table Projects’ rubric.
View Poster-making for Half-Size Poster.
View Creating a Poster for Student Showcase.

Student Showcase projects were on display during the Spring Open House so that prospective students and members of the public could view the projects.

Contact

Jean Linn
Phone: 716-614-6787
Email: jlinn@niagaracc.suny.edu
Location: D-411

Andy Aquino
Phone: 716-614-6791
Email: aaquino@niagaracc.suny.edu
Location: D-206

Andrew Yeager
Phone: 716-614-6781
Email: ayeager@niagaracc.suny.edu
Location: D-205