From kirk.kittell at gmail.com  Tue Mar 11 16:44:20 2008
From: kirk.kittell at gmail.com (Kirk Kittell)
Date: Tue Mar 11 16:45:12 2008
Subject: [Rovers] question in forums, re: video and poster
Message-ID: <1355ea10803111644x3eb8ae28n57354f0eeacfddae@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all. The following question was posted in the forums at
http://forums.seds.org/showthread.php?t=3156 --

QUESTION:
I am looking for a bit of clarification on what is expected of entrants to
the first phase of the competition, the rules here
http://earth.seds.org/rovers.php state that we need to create display
posters and a 5 min video.
So I take it that the 10 slides of display posters are supposed to describe
and analyse my rover concept, but should it be designed for a single person
to read up close, or a group of people at a distance (like a presentation)?

Finally, is the video needed to completely describe the concept, so that it
would be understandable to someone without reading the posters, or is it
more of an accompaniment?


ANSWER:
For a typical conference -- say, the upcoming International Astronautical
Conference, and most others I've been to -- there are three parts to
presenting: (1) abstract; (2) paper; (3) presentation.

In this case, (2) paper is substituted with (2) video. We do not expect that
your 10 slides will contain as many details as a paper would contain, so the
video is your opportunity to describe the important features of the design,
as you would have done in the paper. (Frankly, the judges read enough papers
at work, and we think you write enough at university, so we wanted something
different.)

Our expectation for the slides is the first thing you mentioned: for a group
of people to read up close. These will be posted to a wall in the display
area.


Good luck,
-Kirk

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