For your final post during this research period, please upload a video or a photograph to our site.

If you are opting for the video presentation, please be sure to touch on four topics specifically: discuss the focus of your project (i.e. the question you are asking or exploring) and why you became interested in this topic. Please also discuss the purpose or significance of your research. In other words, why should other people, both within and outside of your field, be interested or excited by your research? Finally, consider the leadership portions of your training, and how they informed your research this summer, or possibly your plans for next summer.

Things to keep in mind while recording: do not speak too quickly, and try to record in a quiet space with minimum background noise. While you should not read from a sheet of paper, practice your presentation a few times before recording. Also, be sure that your description of your work is accessible and understandable to viewers who are not experts in your field, and who may be unfamiliar with your project. Finally, your video should be relatively short--3 minutes max!

If you opt to post a photograph, please take a photograph of something that has been significant to your research. This can be a photograph of an object, of "research in action" (i.e. you with your research community, or engaging in research for your project), or of a person or people who have been instrumental to your research (your faculty mentor, your personal librarian, your graduate student mentor, Laidlaw Scholars, or others!). Please use the post to describe your photograph, and how the image connects with your research. 

Below are instructions for creating a video/inserting an image and posting it to the Columbia room of the Network site!