Each internship experience is unique, and your presentation piece is your opportunity to show what you know about the internship team’s work and your contributions. It’s important to provide evidence of your learning and growth, and this presentation is a great way to show that off! Here are some examples, and you can see exactly what they look like embedded within the ePortfolio.

View previous ePortfolios at the online ePortfolio Showcase.

Digital Poster or Manuscript

These are great for practicing professional and scientific writing skills. You can also list these on your resume. These can be created in Word, PowerPoint, Prezi, or Adobe and inserted on the page. Or you can create a new subpage on your ePortfolio and design it with all the elements of a poster or manuscript.

We recommend you not do a poster unless you have made one for a poster session either on campus or for an external conference. A poster you presented elsewhere is evidence similar to the work product option because it was something you made for the internship work.

Check out Creating Your First Poster by the Undergrad in the Lab blog, and check with your supervisor for a template or previous research poster that you can use to design your own. We cannot accommodate printed posters. Posters must be digital for viewing at the showcase and on the online ePortfolio Showcase website.

External poster sessions may have their own template or suggestions on sizing and what to include.

• Hannah’s page included a draft of a manuscript section she wrote. The rest was still in progress and could not be shared yet.
• Courtney’s page: Courtney created a traditional poster file on a PowerPoint slide and inserted the file into her page. 
• Ashley’s page: Ashley followed the format for a traditional poster (abstract, background, methods, results), but made it into a page on her site instead of using the poster template!
• Aya and Steven did a poster together, and each put it on their page:
  • Aya’s page
  • Steven’s page

Prezi

Prezi presentations can be an alternative way to showcase the traditional elements of a scientific poster without overwhelming audience members with information all at once. This is a great way to make your presentation more interactive while guiding the audience through your journey at your own pace.

• Itzel’s page: Itzel used Prezi to help the audience understand sickle cell disease in a digestible way. Her Prezi included definitions, objectives, actions, and sharing study examples.
• Marissa’s page: Marissa formatted her Prezi presentation to allow audience members to zoom into each individual section of a traditional poster file. This way, audience members can read through each section at their own pace and see the final product when desired.
• Alex’s page: Alex started off her Prezi presentation by presenting the research question first. As audience members click through, they will learn more about how Alex used her research data to investigate the question.

Powerpoint

A PowerPoint presentation can be included on its own or turned into a video with you presenting. This can be something to describe a piece of your work, a quick overview of many different projects you’ve been involved with, or a presentation you gave as part of your time in the internship. We recommend no more than 3-4 slides of content if you choose this option. If you have a lot of visuals, it could be a bit longer.

• Dema’s page: Dema shared a PowerPoint describing what she did in approachable terms.
• Hannah’s page: Hannah shared a PowerPoint of the presentation she gave for the LHSI showcase. She uses a lot of visuals to explain her work. 
• Yashal, Simi, and Mohamad did a shared PowerPoint:
  • Simi made a subpage
  • Mohamad put it at the bottom of the page

Video

Video is also pretty easy to create and use in the ePortfolio. This is a great way to make your ePortfolio more interesting and interactive, and it helps build presentation skills. Consider videos of you doing a process or procedure, or explaining the background about your work. You can record using Zoom or Kaltura and share from Kaltura or YouTube.

• Biah’s page: On Biak’s showcase page, she included YouTube videos about the project she is working on. This can make your content more engaging!
• Roufa’s page: Roufa included a workout video.

Visuals

Google Sites makes it simple to add visuals and insert items from the suite of Google products. Visuals can help you tell your story and make the page more interesting. This includes infographics to tell us more about the highlights of your research or work.

• Jordan’s page: Jordan added her elevator pitch slide to her internship page, along with a lot of pictures she took while in the lab. The elevator pitch slide visual is a succinct and interesting way to communicate the work of the internship site. You’re creating a visual like this in an earlier assignment in this module. On her project page, Jordan included some Google Slides to demonstrate methods and results.
• Amanda’s page: Amanda’s traditional poster file includes digital images of the microarrays she worked with, bar graphs that showcase her data, and a diagram that illustrates the pathology of the subject matter she worked with.

Work Product

This is something you created as part of your internship work, such as recruitment flyers, social media graphics, or other documents. Did you create something that your internship site uses in the research or everyday work? As if you can share that!

• Sara’s page: Sara included a genetic diagram she made for the Indiana Familial Cancer Clinic.
• Hannah’s page: Hannah contributed to a manuscript and shared her part.

All the Things

You’re not limited to just one visual, video, or file. Unleash your creativity and use this opportunity to learn new design and technical skills that will help you in any job in the future.

• Arshia’s page: Arshia included a flyer about what her work is, an educational YouTube video, and a Google Slides presentation that includes sections of a traditional poster (methods, results, discussion).
• Ammar’s page: In his presentation, Ammar embedded a project summary poster that was completed throughout the internship, an educational YouTube video,  and an abstract as part of his research.