Feed Your Brain Final Presentation

1. Feed Your BrainFinal Presentation Team Leaders: Adam Remillard & Cheryl Glazer Team Members: Lindsey, Tucker, Samara, & Nancy

2. Project Summary • Our goal: bring in volunteer speakers • The purpose: expose students to a wider range of subjects and educational opportunities

3. Project Deliverables • The presentations themselves. We didn’t execute them until April (we still have one more next week) • Each presentation consisted of two speakers and one or more topics • The components of the project were preparatory fieldwork

4. Project Timeline - January • Scheduling 5-7 speakers to each present individually • We began to schedule our speakers to present sporadically throughout the coming months • We put out a survey to gauge interest in different topics

5. Project Timeline - February • We learned that it would be optimal to make 3 joint presentations instead of several individual presentations • We spent the entirety of this month determining which pairs of speakers could appropriately present together • Rescheduling them to bring down the number of presentations • We also made it a priority to accommodate any technology/other needs each speaker had

6. Project Timeline - March • This month was devoted to advertising • We touched base with the Web Marketing group, the Guerilla Marketing group, and the Market Wednesday group • This involved Facebook events, twitter posts, flyers, chalking outside of parking garages and other locations • We also used this month to stay in contact with our speakers • Sending out occasional reminders

7. Project Timeline - April • This month is devoted exclusively to presentations • Presentation 1: April 2nd at 3:00 – Brad Harris and John Adams speaking on commercialization, entrepreneurship, and makers spaces. • Presentation 2: April 9th at 3:30 – Geo Miller and Mark Jowett speaking on Web Application Development and SQL. • Presentation 3: April 16th at 3:00 – Elliott Glazer and Matthew Thompson speaking on Networking, Leadership, Developing Content, and Real Term Marketing.

8. Leadership • We determined roles for each group member • Everyone was responsible for something, and no one was responsible for everything. • Each member who recruited a speaker was responsible for correspondence with that speaker regarding technological accommodations, scheduling matters, finalizing topics, and acquiring introductory/biographical information

9. Teamwork • We collaborated extensively with other groups, specifically those geared towards advertising • We made sure to reach out to other groups to offer support/services to assist them, as they did for us • We also thoroughly encouraged input and cooperation from each team member • Every member who could recruit a speaker was motivated to do so

10. Long Term Planning • From the very beginning of the semester, we had the future in mind. • We knew what our ultimate goals were, and carefully planned each milestone to make sure that we stayed on track • We reflected on where we were in our overall timeline • We were fortunate enough to notice a glaring opportunity for improvement