Please watch the recording of your presentation. As a team, please respond to these three prompts:

Identify five things you could do better with your seven-minute presentation.

1. Make the information we say more concise and cut out information so that we can speak slower and not be so rushed.
2. Memorize key information so that we do not rely on a script/speaker notes.
3. Practice more so that the way we present is more lively, passionate, and comfortable. We do not want to come off as lifeless or robotic. 
4. Make our slides more engaging by adding our own pictures once we do fieldwork within the community.
5. Elaborate more on interviews and how we will conduct them since we received questions from referees about that. 

Did you respond to the referees’ questions in a concise and precise manner? Describe five responses you could have approached differently.

Note: We only really received 3 questions, so we will also comment generally on the Q&A responses.

1. Answer questions more clearly and concisely; avoid going off on tangents to allow for other referees to ask questions. (this would come with practice)
2. What methods will you be using to reach out to the community beyond interviewing community organizations? For this question, we could have answered it more concisely had we practiced more beforehand although Fatima and Eric both addressed the question well. Instead of the Boys and Girls Club of Easton, since we are focusing on Allentown, perhaps we could have talked about the Allentown Rescue Mission or Lehigh Valley Meals on Wheels. We also could have mentioned the possibility of working with specific Allentown political figures to gain more credibility in the communities we’re working with and ultimately reach them better. The religious centers and radio station portion of the response would be kept.
3. What kinds of interviews are you doing? For this question, we weren’t able to answer it clearly since this part of our venture hasn’t been fully planned yet. Although the detail about treating these interviews very delicately since COVID-19 is such a sensitive topic was good, we could have talked more about the types of questions we want to ask/where we want to focus. This could include the following questions: how far is the nearest hospital from your home, do you rely on public or private transportation, how have your experiences been at Lehigh Valley healthcare facilities, do you have reliable internet connection in your home, etc..
4. Which minority communities are you focusing on? Will this include the LGBTQ community? For this question we responded that we will be looking at the communities of color specifically the hispanic and black communities in Allentown and while we have not distinguished if we will have any focus on the LGBTQ side of the communities or not, we are definitely not opposed to working with them. We are mainly looking at race as the demographic we are following and I think we answered this question by providing all of this information, although it may not have been the answer the referee was looking for. 
5. Overall as a general comment on our Q&A section, we had a lot of broad backup slides that could have been used to provide more information on some of the questions we were asked such as the community partnerships we have, we had a slide for that. So in the future we should make sure the person in charge of screen sharing is aware of all the types of backup slides we have in order to ensure that those slides are shared when we are answering the question at hand that correlates with it. 

Identify five techniques / strategies (content, design, answering questions, etc) that other teams did particularly well…that you could adopt for your own team.

1. Preparing to answer questions and rehearsing answering them.
2. Incorporating creative slide designs that helped make their presentation even more engaging without interfering with readability/distracting.
3. Clearly explaining what they were doing this semester and in subsequent semesters although this was difficult for us because we are still in the initial stages of our project.
4. Practicing presenting so that they were not short on time while also sounding natural/lively instead of over-rehearsed.
5. Including creative/eye-catching pictures to replace bullet points/words that summarized their main point.