Students Find Voices Through Communication Workshops
Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate students have been working on summer research projects and learning how to explain their work to others.
Students who received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship honed their communications and presentation skills through the Undergraduate Research Office’s Speak Up! workshop series.
More than 100 students participated in the program that culminated in a competition in which each student was limited to three minutes and three slides to explain a snapshot of their research. Finalists presented their work on July 17.
Jamie Slomka, a rising senior in policy and management and decision science, shared her work on the psychology of internet searches and was awarded first place.
“I came in thinking [the series] was primarily for students with little experience giving presentations, but I did learn a lot, especially from the session on presentation and delivery,” Slomka said. “I’m much more aware of the way my voice sounds and resonates when presenting.”