The symposium day presentation that I went to was the poster displays by the Physics 110: Physics of Cars class. The two presenters in the bypass of the student center that I talked to were Holly Castle and Becca Richards, who had done their research on Solar Home Heating. They focused on both active and passive solar heating systems. The active heating system solar radiation is collected and transferred by the heating of a liquid. While passive solar heating is just a well designed house that collects and stores the solar heat, collected by strategically placed windows. This was one of the more professional posters of the class, since the two women had used the University resource of the media resource center. Where instead of using poster board and cut out printings they had designed their entire poster on the computer and printed out a large three by four feet poster. The only thing I would have changed was not many people got to learn about what the class had researched. The posters are a good idea to give many people an option to present but it is cramped and awkward to read and talk about the posters in the student center with people you don’t know. (Truthfully the only reason I stopped to talk was one of them is my roommate.)
For a symposium day presentation I don’t really know what I would present. I have a feeling from talking to others in a class that I have to take that I will be doing a poster presentation in the next few years, but as far as a presentation on what I’d like to present I have no idea. Hopefully in the next few semesters something will present itself that is so exciting that I can’t stop researching it and symposium day will give me the chance to share it with others. Until then it’s enjoying to see what fascinates and inspires others.
