Celebration

Upon submission of a student's abstract, faculty will receive an email to approve and/or edit the submission.  Below are instructions to assist the process.

• Please click the link to approve.
• Click on the Admin button.
• Click to Edit.
  
• Make any changes you need to to the abstract.
  
• Change the status in the dropdown box to mentor approved.  
• Changes will be saved automatically or you can scroll to the bottom and click 'update'
• Note that students will receive an email of acceptance within 1 week of the deadline.

Author and sponsor names, project title and abstract will be published as submitted in the Celebration program booklet. Careful editing is required. We strongly suggest that applicants contact the prospective primary faculty sponsor for assistance with crafting a title and abstract. We also suggest that applicants run the abstract and title through a spell-check and language program to ensure correct spelling and grammar. All editing must occur before the project is approved for publication in the Celebration program booklet.

Abstracts are limited to 100 words.  Here is a sample abstract.

Key aspects to include - max 100 words

• Motivation: Why do we care about the problem and the results?
  
• Problem statement: What problem are you trying to solve? What is the scope of your work (a generalized approach, or for a specific situation)? Be careful not to use too much jargon remember this is a university-wide event.
  
• Approach: How did you go about solving or making progress on the problem?
  
• Results: What's the answer?
  
• Conclusions: What are the implications of your answer?  

Research and creative projects contain: A basic or applied research component or written documentation of a "beginning to end" creative process. Characteristics of the Research or Creative project are to be evaluated by the faculty mentor and department.

Characteristics of Excellent Projects:

• Students drive the process (i.e. students do most of the work, with faculty guidance).
• The approach is innovative or novel and has not been presented at NKU previous to the Celebration.
• Goals are set and reported on.
• The process is documented-methods and outcomes are described.
• Work may be done by an individual or a group.
• The work may be an original exposition or expression of another body of work.
• While a project may have originated as part of a course assignment, the majority of work on the project should be in addition to standard coursework. Exceptions to this should reflect original work of outstanding quality that has arisen out of a course.
• The project must be certified by the faculty member as sufficiently advanced by the registration deadline to ensure its completion by the date of Celebration.

Types of Presentations

Oral
Students give 10-12 minute lectures on their work. These resemble conference presentations. Audio-visual equipment can/should be used.

Poster - A poster is worth a thousand words!
During a two and a half hour session students discuss their research with attendees. Large boards with push pins will be set up around the room for displaying your poster. We provide the push pins and display material. These will be presented in the order of submission/acceptance and numbered for viewers.

Creative
These presentations will be in person but can take any form of artistic expression.  The can include (but not limited to) musical, theatre, visual arts, or dance performances.  Students may also present films or other artistic formats.

Virtual
Students present as part of our online offerings and create 4 minute video presentations of their work. Typically this combines many of the aspects of both oral and poster presentations.