I had a handout with a few concise facts regarding the evolution of insects (in relation to pesticides), bacteria (in relation to antibiotics), animals (in relation to habitat removal and such). My handout was well-organized and pretty easy to follow and I think it gave a good introduction to my topic and helped rope in those who seemed ... less enthusiastic or suspicious of my topic. I do believe my handouts were of high quality.

The steps I took to create my handouts are not terribly interesting or, dare I say, unique. I looked over all my information and pulled out only those items that embodied my project as a whole and placed them upon the handout which I later distributed at the fair. I suppose you could break the steps into the individual keystrokes required to type the handout, but that would be tedious. I did put effort into the creation of the handouts, and, like I said above, I believe them to be quality pamphlets.

My audience was primarily begrudging and disgruntled “underclassmen” but I do recall one particularly outstanding “interaction” with a junior or sophomore or freshman (I'm not sure) who seemed genuinely interested in my topic or was at least putting up a good show. This individual asked a lot of questions, injected their own ideas and impressions and wanted to hear, not only my canned speech, but all about my project, in its entirety. This person's interest in my topic may have been due to the my unwavering charisma, but I like to believe it was also my intriguing topic.

I think I did quite well at the fair. I went out of my way to pull everybody that walked past me aside and inform them on the wonders of rapid evolutionary change. I made it a point to hand out all my pamphlets, even to the point of handing them to people who trying to get somebody else's presentation – so that's an A+ for effort. My exceptional stamina was rivaled only by the intensity and continuity of my focus. I gave the same speech, fought the same fight and leaped through the same hoops for every individual who came to my section of the room. I never faltered or gave in, my effort never fell and all in all, I believe I delivered a presentation that was of consistent quality to all people.

I suppose the fair gave me a tiny, miniscule, absurdly, ridiculously small idea of how to shape my presentation in order to better reach the public – to better explain my topic to the uninformed masses. Otherwise, it was too short and informal to really get a feel for exactly what people were looking for in my presentation or areas of confusion or advice they might have to offer. But in any case, I suppose all the help I got was useful on some level, however insignificant.

For a another fair, I would certainly acquire one of those ever-handy paper cutters because everything on my poster was jagged, crooked and pathetic looking. I would also figure out a more engaging layout – mine was pretty static, uninteresting, in many ways. More pictures, more color and more straight edges would have made all the difference. I think my topic is a little heavy in the intellectual arena to be a viable topic for presenting to infants. I suppose I could give super over-simplified examples of evolution and try my best to connect humans to that change at some basic level, but I have a feeling that regardless of how I presented it, it would elude infants' understanding.

I think the exhibition was valuable in some respects, but ultimately, it was too short and hurried for underclassmen to really get an idea of what exhibition is all about. I'm sure some of them found the topics interesting but any of them actually remember the fair when it comes time for them to their own exhibition projects, I would be surprised. It seems more like a novelty than anything else. For seniors, I suppose the fair gives us a very, very, very basic idea of how to shape our presentations (panel and public) and that, no matter how absurdly minute, is useful information. I don't really see any negatives, but if we had actually gone to the grade school to present there, I would see that as a HUGE negative. I simply would not want to waste my time presenting to a bunch of children and infants who would rather not be there, could not understand the entirety of the projects even if they did want to be there, and are ultimately going to lessen the experience for the seniors.

Interim Question #2: I think it was pretty clear from all the feedback that my poster was sub par. There were jagged edges and low-quality pictures. So the bulk of the feedback regarding the poster negative. On the other hand all of the feedback regarding my actual presentation was very much positive. Obvious, it took my blatant failure as a poster-designer to incur negative feedback and my obvious mastery of the presenters trade to incur positive feedback there.

Not really. I think the questions basically covered all there is to reflect on, or all I can remember about the who thing. So I could make something up or ramble on about pointless nonsense to take up space to shoot for a better score, but I won't waste my time or yours.