Learning & Research Fair

Submissions

• All students (and faculty submitting course entries) will submit  abstracts and poster files.
   
• The Lougheed Center for Applied Learning will post each entry on the L&RF website. The website will serve as the program for the live event.

Posters

• Posters (submission form linked above) will be held in the Lougheed Center for Applied Learning for you to pick up; an email will alert you to their availability once they are received from Central Printing.
   
• Posters may be hung at your assigned panel in the Barrington Student Union MPR at one of two times: Tuesday evening before the event, 5-7 p.m., at a Presenters’ Social (pizza, soda, and tunes provided); and Wednesday, the morning of the event, 8-10 a.m. Presenters who are not part of the judging process should plan to remove posters from the MPR by 4 p.m. Wednesday.

Event Day

• The L&FR will open for presenters and visitors at the Barrington Student Union MPR on Wednesday from 10 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. (with a break for lunch from Noon - 1 p.m.). Presenters should be ready to always attend their posters unless otherwise busy with classes. Our visitors want to learn about your work; meeting with you is the highlight of the experience. Dress for success. Snacks will be available on-site.
   
• A free lunch and keynote address in the Fireside Lounge, BSU, is open to all presenters, mentors, and invited staff and administrators who have previously RSVP'd. Please plan to join us for lunch starting at noon; the buffet line needs to move expeditiously to avoid competing with the keynote address, which will begin at approximately 12:20 p.m.

Judging

• Students who wish to be considered for one of our research cash awards will be required to engage in a supplemental judging process.
   
• Judging sessions will follow the L&RF, running from Wednesday, 3 p.m., through Friday, 4 p.m. A meeting time will be assigned to you (or your team) for your judging session. If you are presenting more than one project for judging, you will be assigned a separate session for each project. 
   
• Each meeting will run no more than 20 minutes.  A panel of judges will ask you questions about your project as reflected in your abstract, poster, and your project overview.  These judges will probably not be specialists in your academic field; please pitch your responses to a general audience of broadly educated judges.  Mentors who wish to be present at their mentees’ judging session as silent observers should contact the LoCAL.
   
• Judges will consider the quality of students’ abstracts, posters, and interviews in their scoring.
   
• This year, all judging takes place in the Lobby of the Lougheed Learning Commons. Relevant posters will be moved there after the fair until your judging day and time, after which you may collect them. Any posters remaining onsite after 4 p.m. on Friday will be taken to the LoCAL.
   
• Winners will be announced on campus social media, by email, posted on the L&RF website, and posted on this website.

Contact

• Please contact the staff at appliedlearning@potsdam.edu or (315) 264-2507 if you need clarification on the process.
   
• We appreciate your willingness to present your work in this format.  Good luck!  We hope you enjoy the experience.  

• Use the latest version of PowerPoint to create poster (recommended).  You will complete a single slide for your poster.
   
• Set poster size BEFORE creating the poster (Design tab >Slide Size >Custom).  If you are importing a finished image from Photoshop or some other image editor, the image you import should be the same size as the poster size (otherwise, you will have a small image on a large field of white).  If you have any questions about how to do this step, please consult a YouTube lesson on the subject (there are many out there).
   
• Standard poster sizes are: 30" x 42", 48" x 42" (most popular); maximum poster size allowed is 54" x 42".
   
• Save and upload your poster as a PDF. This is the only form we and Central Printing will accept.
   
• LoCAL will pay for one poster to be printed. If you need multiple posters please contact us at appliedlearning@potsdam.edu.
   
• LoCAL will not print a second poster due to errors (proof before submitting).