Program Abstract: Building confidence in presentation skills and fostering the courage to engage creatively with new ideas can help level the playing field for women, the transgender community, BIPOC, and other underrepresented groups in the science classroom. Recent literature identifies that STEM students, although accomplished in STEM skill sets, often lack competencies in other domains such as creativity and adaptability. Using field-tested improvisation techniques, this workshop will lead participants through three exercises developed as part of the Finding Your Research Voice workshop series (Cohen, Dreyer-Lude, 2019): Ding! (honing your message), Make Me Buy This (helping the audience care about your research), and So What You’re Saying Is…(learning to answer questions about your presentation). Each exercise concludes by identifying how the skills learned can be directly applied to public presentations of STEM research.
Cohen, I., Dreyer-Lude, M. (2019). Finding Your Research Voice. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, Switzerland, AG.
