Student Awards

Outstanding Student Poster, Creative, and Oral Presentation Winners

 

2023 Celebration Presentation Award Winners:

Best Virtual Presentation:
Graduate: Sheri Frey (Social Work)
Undergraduate: Madeline Eisenmann (Accounting)

Best Creative Presentation: Mikayla Schutte (English)

Best Oral Presentation: Grant Toler (International Studies)

Best Poster Presentation:

Graduate: Taylor Allesch and Maura Bennett (Kinesiology)
Undergraduate: Kayleigh Moore and Stefano Pecile (Engineering Technology)

Student's will initially be evaluated on their submitted abstract on clarity of explanation, writing quality and project quality.  Abstracts should be written in such a way that anyone can understand the purpose/importance of the project/creative activity. After nominees are selected, judges will visit their posters/presentations to evaluate them on the criteria provided in the rubric below.

Outstanding Poster Award

A committee will review the electronic submissions of abstracts to identify 10 posters that they would review during the poster sessions.

Prior to the poster session, the committee will review the posters and evaluate based on the rubric below:

• 10 Background/rationale/scholarly question
• 10 Approach to question (e.g. thesis, hypothesis, methods)
• 10 Conclusions
• 10 Poster appearance/design
• 10 Clarity to a broad audience  

Outstanding Oral Presentation Award

A committee will review abstracts and identify the best five to evaluate in person.The committee will attend these presentations and evaluate based on the rubric below

• 10 Background/rationale/scholarly question
• 10 Approach to question (e.g. thesis, hypothesis, methods)
• 10 Conclusions
• 10 Presentation quality
• 10 Clarity to a broad audience