20 Time Final Post

Above is the 20 Time presentation me and my partner Ashkan gave today during Anatomy/Physiology class. Overall, I believe our TED Talk went relatively well in the fact that not only we met the requirements, but we also connected with the audience. We presented a lesson that many students throughout the world do not have the same benefits as we do in Saratoga when it comes to technology, and every little bit we do to aid other student's education not only helps them, but helps the world in being more educated and articulate. I also believed that our presentation had a clear layout on what we wanted to accomplish and how we accomplished it. However, no presentation is perfect, including ours. If I could have changed something differently in the presentation, it would be to stop saying "uh" almost every other sentence as it makes me look clueless when presenting. This has always been a bad habit for me when giving public presentations, which is something I plan to improve on before college begins. Also in our presentation we did not have a Works Cited since we believed we did not need one since we were building something rather than giving an educational lesson on the topic. Based off the rubric, I would give our presentation at least a 70 since we were extremely articulate and connected to the audience, but not a full score since we did not include sources (even though we believed we did not need one since our presentation was not about educating the audience, but displaying what we built and how we did it). I felt we were well prepared for the presentation, as we did not do it last minute and ran through rehearsals countless times to the point where we could memorize our whole presentation from start to finish. As for giving the talk, although I felt we did quite well, it was still nerve-wrecking having to present to the whole class, especially with other great presentations being displayed around the same day too. I have grown from this project as to realize the computer field is not for me, which is great because I get to narrow down my career choices. Additionally, my official takeaway from this project is that we all must do what we can to help others receive the same educational opportunities as us, granted that they display rigorous academics and extracurriculars too. In the end, we not only explored our personal interests, we were able to provide great opportunities to an individual who took academics seriously, and not only help aid his future, but the future of his family and generations to come too.