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Space Owls Team Leader: Allison Bean
Since her sophomore year, Allison Bean, a BIOE major
and team leader of the Space Owls, has been assisted
by Tracy Volz, Cain Project Assistant Director. Allison
and her peers have worked with Dr. Volz in most of
their BIOE classes to learn everything from how to
construct an effective PowerPoint presentation to how
to stand and gesture during presentations. Allison
feels that the presentation help from Dr. Volz as well
as from the Cain Project-trained TAs became most evident
when she and her teammates attended the TSGC Design
Challenge last semester to present their first-semester
progress reports.
Allison believes that the Space Owls were much better
prepared than the groups from other schools and acknowledged
that the audience seemed impressed with her team’s
presentation skills. To meet the rest of the SpaceOwls,
go to http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~mkolnik/spaceowls/aboutus.html.
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Space Owls (left to right): Danika
Hayman, Kimberly Hsu, Sriram Eleswarapu, Allison Bean,
Martin Kolnik
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RICE Winners (Con't
from page 4)
Outstanding Presentations
Members of both Team Cobra and the Space Owls credit the Cain Project
as a positive influence on their presentations and also on their
experiences as Rice undergrads. In order to prepare for their
presentations, the teams (as well as the other students in BIOE
452) were assisted by TAs Kyle Allen and Ryan McGuire, who were
trained by the Cain Project to be presentations coaches.
The teams were given presentation feedback about their slides,
presentations styles, and speaking skills. Cain Project instructor
Dr. June Ferrill also visited BIOE 452 on several occasions to
give the students tips about their business presentations as well.
Although an award was not given for best oral presentation, Debbie
Mullins, Program Coordinator of the TSGC Design Challenge, feels
that both Rice teams provided “outstanding oral and poster
presentations that effectively and interestingly communicated the
work they had undertaken.”
Want to see Team Cobra’s latest developments?
Go to: http://www.riceteamcobra.com.
Want to see a slideshow demonstrating the Space Owls’ prototype?
Go to http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~mkolnik/spaceowls/product1.htm
Links to both sites are available in this article on the Cain Project
website.
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“I believe that the Cain
Project is an incredibly vital part of Rice’s engineering
program since it supplements our learning of the material
in class, with knowledge of how to communicate our ideas
effectively. I have no doubt that the Cain Project has
helped prepare every engineering student at Rice for
the future in one way or another.”
– Allison Bean
Space Owls Team Leader
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