Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Important Mid-SRP Reminders

We are about halfway through the Senior Research Project, so I want to give you a few reminders.

1) Students must spend 30 total hours every week on research and on-site internship. Officially, you are still in school and you are getting school credit. Not doing research and not going to your internship is missing school, so your SRP grade will suffer if you are not putting in the required 30 hours per week.

2) At least twice each week, students must explain to their BASIS Advisor what they are doing, specifically, in regards to their internship and research. This contact can be email, blog, or verbal.

3) Every SRP student will do a PowerPoint presentation in May (in addition to their project of a research paper, documentary, writing portfolio, graphic novel, business plan, etc.). We are searching for a nice venue for the presentations, which will take place at night (probably Mon, May 18, and Tues, May 19). I'll give more information as it becomes available to me. Feel free to invite parents, grandparents, etc., etc.

4) The presentation will be a PowerPoint presentation of approximately 15 minutes (plus 5 minutes of answering questions). I will work with every SRP student on their presentation. In May, each SRP student will have mandatory meeting with me about your presentation. In addition, please feel free to contact to set up a time for me to help you before then; you can start getting my help on your presentation as soon as tomorrow, if you'd like. You should also get help on your presentation from your BASIS Advisor.

Please contact me if you have any questions or problems.

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