Graduation Project

Portfolio

Paper

Product

Presentation

Schedule

Forms

Overview

The product is a tangible demonstration of the studentīs research. The product must demonstrate the studentīs mastery of the knowledge that he/she researched. A student has no boundaries when it comes to the product except that the product must reflect fifteen or more hours of effort. The product should show the panel of judges an incorporation and application of the research through a creative technique. The PowerPoint presentation cannot be the actual product; PowerPoint is a presentation software package used to enhance the presentation. The student should be able to articulate how they made their product and why they chose that particular product format. Successful products possess the following characteristics:

1) Relevance to the research topic

2) Evidence of at least fifteen (15) hours of effort

3) Creative and original where appropriate

4) Reflective of extended effort and thoroughness

Tips

1. Make sure the product represents application of your research-based knowledge.
2. Spend time on and care about your product! Make it professional and polished. Remember that it needs to represent a minimum of fifteen hours of your time.
3. Prepare a polished explanation / presentation of the product. Work on incorporating it into your presentation rather than explaining it as a separate entity where possible.

Possible Product Suggestions

--Electronic products such as websites, computer programs, network designs, etc.

--Displays--trifolds, posters, and other visual displays (Note that all visual displays must be professional in quality, neat in appearance, graphically pleasing, and purposeful. In other words, if students construct something visual, it must be used for something, not just a display that no one ever sees.)

--Print publications such as brochures and booklets. (Again, these items must have a purpose and not just constructed with no end in mind.)

--Models and displays

--Hours logged in a service opportunity or in a business/ professional environment (Students must provide documentation of the hours from a supervisor as well as some reflective evidence of things learned from the service.)

--Performances--such as musical, dance, art, design, fashion, etc.

-Experiments--complete with full results and reports

--Videos--(Students are warned that videos have a high failure rate. Successful videos are fully edited and contain graphics and music as appropriate.)

--Journals and scrapbooking

--Board games

--Surveys (Surveys must be carefully developed, administered to a large number of respondents, and have full results that are presented in bar graphs/pies/ etc.)

--Creative writings--short stories, plays, journals, etc.