<aside> 💡 Purpose: To share specific knowledge within your Focus, ideally through showing a project you've built or research you've done.

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Guidelines🎯

If you plan on doing a Focus presentation, please make sure to follow these guidelines:

• Your presentation should be between 4-6 minutes.
• You should not present if you are only at the "learn" stage in your Focus.
• You should not present on a high-level topic, like "an overview of AI". Focus presentations need to have a level of depth and be about specific knowledge (not general knowledge).

— Examples —

• ✅ Using transformers to summarize academic papers.

• ❌ How convolutional neural networks (CNNs) work.

  or

• ✅Detecting luteinizing hormone surge to optimize productivity.

• ❌Stages of female menstruation.

  or
  

• ✅Using prime editing to cure cystic fibrosis.

• ❌ Overview of CRISPR-cas9.

<aside> 💻 VIRTUAL FOCUS PRESENTATIONS

The content for virtual focus presentations is similar to in-person presentations, but there are a few key delivery changes:

1. Bring more ENERGY! - You're on computers, so you need to be more energetic/memorable to keep people engaged.

2. Pause + Vocal Fluctuations.- In In-person you have more opportunities to physically move your body, have more elaborate hand gestures, etc. Virtually, to keep your presentation interesting try to pause to make your points dramatic and change your voice volume/speed.

Overall, be intentional about having interesting content and engaging delivery

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Examples of Focus Presentations

https://youtu.be/beJJPCdtAT0

https://youtu.be/yYpX_pv3RcY

A few more:

Adam Omarali: NLP and Sentiment Analysis