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Projects > Post-Undergraduate
Post-Undergraduate Presentations | Writing | IBM - Volunteer participation | Research Presentations/Speaking New Hire Technical Series: Usability - September 2009 Presented on Usability at IBM as a new hire. Real World presentation - April 2009 Presented to Professor Search's Interface Design Class at RPI. Topic covered was what tasks performed as a usability professional and words of wisdom post graduation. Young Alumni Panel - RPI Games Symposium - April 2009 Sat on a panel of 5 young alumni regarding entering and being involved with the game development community. Writing Indigenous Peoples Exemplar - July 2009 Research performed during the User Seminar's class senior year (2008) was written up to be included in a publication. Worked with Professor Patricia Search, Amanda Rotondo, and Marsha Harner on the write up. IBM - Volunteer participation EXCITE Camp - Summer 2007 Weeklong STEM technology camp for junior high girls. Prepared and presented an Introduction to Gaming presentation. Provided details on game mechanics and possible job roles, and lead an interactive game creation session. Interesting experience presenting to a junior high audience instead of college/conference level. Learned a lot regarding presentation skills. Also volunteered with various other activities, like Lego Robotics and website design. IGNITE Camp - Summer 2008 Weeklong STEM technology camp for junior high boys. Prepared and presented an Introduction to Gaming presentation. Modified the EXCITE camp presentation by removing a lot of the details and providing more questions and answer parts, and interaction pieces in the middle of the presentation. Also volunteered with IBM's presentation of the game, PowerUp. GEMS - School year 2008/2009, 2009/2010 Monthly meeting of a group of IBM Mentors with a selected group of junior high girls to encourage STEM. Two mentors were paired with 3 mentees. Presented Introduction to Gaming presentation at one of the monthly sessions. Modified the previous presentation significantly to make it more visual and interactive. (2009 and January 2010) MentorPlace - School year 2008/2009, 2009/2010 Email communication weekly and two classroom meetings with 6th grade mentees. Nice to provide the students with a person they can relate to in technical careers. Engineers Week - Spring 2009 Visited schools and presented engineering/science problems for 45-minute sessions with individual classrooms. Grades 5-12. For the high school E-week event, dismantled a Wiimote to demonstrate what parts make one function and what homebrew projects can be made to use one, demonstrating the Rowboat project. This coordinated well with the processors and microchips brought as another presentation as what is processed at IBM. 
Lego Robotics - Spring 2009 Refereed a local competition. It was interesting to see what solutions the students created. EXPLORE camp - Summer 2009 Weeklong STEM technology camp for junior high girls. Prepared and presented an Introduction to Gaming presentation. Modified the GEMS camp presentation slightly to fit the girls' interest by providing them a survey the day before. Little research was able to found regarding girls' interest at gaming in the junior high age range. Assisted with activities of Intro to Engineering and Website design. Research Boat Project - Katherine Isbister - Fall 2008/Spring 2009 Somewhat of an extension to the Wriggle project. Developing a project to explore how gestures in games can create emotion in players as they play. |