SRW

i entered this Student Research Week competition. as a self-described true proscratinator, i did not practice up until the last hours. it was supposed to be a 12 minute presentation. since i thought there was really not enough time to talk about everything, i had to throw away couple slides (total slides before: 33, on the real presentation: 24) while in the same time i had to make it logical enough for the lay people to follow. my session called engineering vii, had 6 people presenting, i was the 5th one to present. honestly, i don't think i did a decent job out there. i had good eye contact and confidence, though. there was only 1 judge, an outside lady. she came up w/ the same question for each presenter: "what is the application of your research in the real world?" ....oh my, i need more challenge...the main reason for me entering this was for the thesis defense exercise....better presenting in front of the chem-es next year... anyhow, there was this cool research from a man in aerospace dept, their project called the "STARNAV", was actually on board of the sts-107. fortunately, they got everything transmitted before the accident. for more info about the project, please visit their site.