Some thoughts to consider regarding Education Sessions...

• Allowing your presenters to present three times is ideal. This allows them to get a bad one out of the way the first time around (hardly anyone presents well the first session), it provides them additional chances to perfect their presentation within the day, and it allows more students to see more ideas! Of course, we are limited by the number of rooms available and the number of interested student groups and sometimes, people can only present twice.
• If students are only able to present twice, you will most likely end up having some presentations move from one room to another. If this is the case, you should make sure those students present in "room 1" during session 1 and "room 2" during session three, providing them the time during session 2 to move their stuff. This is very inconvenient, however, it allows everyone to present twice if you have the right number of rooms and presenters! It would look something like this:
  • Session 1
    • Room 1: Presentation A
    • Room 2: Presentation C
  • Session 2
    • Room 1: Presentation A
    • Room 2: Presentation B
  • Session 3
    • Room 1: Presentation C
    • Room 2: Presentation B
• Letting attendees choose what they would like to attend means that some sessions will not be well attended (this means disappointed presenters).
• Assigning attendees to sessions means that they will be uninterested in some of the sessions that they may have to attend (this means disappointed attendees).
• Giving tickets to each school to distribute as they wish works if you do it correctly! If you're unsure of the right process for this, please call the MASC/MAHS office and Kadi can guide you through it. You want to make sure that these things happen when distributing tickets:
  • A school doesn't get tickets for their own presentation (if possible)
  • You only print enough tickets for the amount of people that can fit into that room during that session
  • You evenly distribute the tickets across all schools
  • You evenly distribute the tickets from the various presentations so that if 20 people are seeing Presentation A, 20 people are seeing Presentation B, and so on
  • Clearly mark the tickets by text or color for the various sessions!
• You must plan how you will divide the group for the Swap Shop Sessions at the end of the day (stickers, numbers, colors, tickets, etc...)