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 * Capstone Defense Requirements**e

Presentations: June 7-9, 2010

__**Goal:**__ Present an argument that your Senior Capstone Project demonstrates the SLA Core Values as well as significant growth in your understanding of our school essential questions: How do we learn? What can we create? What does it mean to lead?

__**Requirements:**__ 1. Presentation must be **10 minutes** long. 2. Presentation must describe **goal**, **process**, and **outcome** of the project. 3. Presentation must provide **evidence** of the intellectual and personal growth you experienced. 4. You must explicitly state your evidence that you addressed the five **core values**.

After your presentation, there will be time for **questions** from the audience (roughly five minutes) as well as **feedback** (roughly five minutes). You should be ready to present precisely at the time assigned, and should plan on the whole process taking 20 minutes.

Keep in mind that some of the people in your audience (teachers, other seniors, underclassmen) will never have heard anything about your project before and it is therefore imperative that you provide a clear and coherent description of what you did. A significant portion of your Capstone grade will be based on this defense.

Suggestions from your future audience: 1. Remember the principles of good presentation design (Contrast-Repetition-Alignment-Proximity). 2. Make your audience care about your project. 3. Bring your A-game! This is the culmination of four years of hard work. Make it worth it!

__By the end of the school day before your presentation (so if you have a Monday presentation, you have to hand it in on Friday__, you will need to turn in a "process paper" in which you provide us with a written version of the presentation requirements. Given that this should be a 10-minute presentation, expect to write approximately three pages. This will give teachers a chance to prepare some meaningful questions as well as give you a chance to clarify your thoughts before trying to speak in front of an audience.

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