CURC Update page (Draft 2)
Presentation Categories and Submission Guidelines
Research Poster
Research Poster
Who Should Submit: Students who have started, completed or planned a project which involves asking one or more questions and trying to answer those questions, or hypothesizing about outcomes and checking those hypotheses. Projects do not need to be complete to present at CURC.
Category Overview: Students will create a poster in virtual and print format. They will upload their poster and a 3-minute video narration of their work with their virtual submission to Symposium, and they will print their poster and present it at the in-person CURC event on April 18th in the LSC. Students will be assigned to one of two poster time sessions and must be present at their poster during the entirety of their time slot to speak with attendees about their work.
Community Engagement Poster
Community Engagement Poster
Who Should Submit: Students who have started, completed, helped with, or planned a project which involves helping a community meet their needs in a reciprocal way. Projects do not need to be complete to present at CURC.
Category Overview: Students will create a poster in virtual and print format. They will upload their poster and a 3-minute video narration of their work with their virtual submission to Symposium, and they will print their poster and present it at the in-person CURC event on April 18th in the LSC. Students will be assigned to one of two poster time sessions and must be present at their poster during the entirety of their time slot to speak with attendees about their work.
CEL Poster Guide and Poster Templates
Oral Presentation
Oral Presentation
Who Should Submit: Students who have started, completed or planned a project which involves asking one or more questions and trying to answer those questions/hypotheses, or students who have started, completed, helped with, or planned a project which involves helping a community meet their needs in a reciprocal way. Projects do not need to be complete to present at CURC.
Category Overview: Students will present their work during the in-person CURC event on April 18th. Students will give a 10-minute presentation on their project, using a PowerPoint (or equivalent) to help them explain their project to a general audience. The presentation will be followed by a 5-minute Q&A session. Students will be assigned to one of two oral presentation time sessions. This presentation will be live-streamed via Symposium, so remote attendees can watch these presentations in real-time. Students must send their final PowerPoint (or equivalent) to [email protected].
Students will also upload a virtual presentation to Symposium which includes a PDF image of the title slide and a 3-minute video narration of their work.
Visual Art
Visual Art
Who Should Submit: Students who have created a visual work of art or project. Artwork can be in any medium, including sculptures, paintings, drawings, textiles/clothing, or any other visual artwork. Videos and films should be submitted via the Film category.
Category Overview: Students will upload a 3-minute artist talk to the Symposium platform (use “Performing or Visual Art Submissions”), explaining their artwork. For the in-person event, art will be displayed in the LSC, and the artist is required to be present to talk about their work and answer questions from attendees.
Submitters are asked to contact OURA staff (email [email protected]) as early as possible to ensure we are prepared to properly display your work.
Written Work
Written Work
Who Should Submit: Students who have completed all or part of an original written project, not including research papers or projects. Original work can be in any genre, including (but not limited to) fiction, non-fiction, poetry, scientific journalism, technical writing, written excerpts, or others. Projects do not need to be complete to present at CURC.
Category Overview: Students can submit a completed original work of up to 15 pages in any genre, excluding scholarly research papers (we encourage students with scholarly research to present as a poster or talk). The written work submission (25 pgs maximum) will be uploaded to the Symposium platform via a link. Students will also upload a short (up to one page) PDF summary of their work and a 3-minute writers talk explaining their work to the Symposium platform. The full written work submission will be sent to judges but will not be displayed via Symposium; virtual attendees will only be able to view the summary and author’s video narration. On the day of CURC, students will be asked to read up to a 5-minute excerpt from their work and answer questions from attendees.
Film Submissions
Film Submissions
Who Should Submit: Students who have created a video or short film in any format or style. Projects do not need to be complete to present at CURC.
Category Overview: Films can be in any category (nature/science, human interest, social sciences, animated, documentary or narrative, etc) with 3 – 10 minutes run time. (If you want to submit a longer submission, please contact us directly at [email protected]). Students will also upload a 3-minute artist talk to Symposium in which they describe their film. Students will then present their film at the in-person CURC event on April 18th in the LSC. Please upload your film to YouTube/Vimeo and include the link in your submission with the necessary password, if applicable. Do not submit a link as part of your summary, you should submit a “poster” for your film as a PDF, so that there is a visual representation of your film on the symposium site. If you have any questions about submitting a film, please reach out to our film festival coordinator, Irl, ([email protected])