Step 4: Create a Presentation

A few guidelines for creating an effective presentation:

• Be sure to read the FAQ page on the Milton Wolf Prize website, particularly the sections on requirements and criteria for how the review committee will judge the projects

• Remember your goal: to educate people about your issue and advocate so well that they want to help you do something.

• Make it true

  • Facts must be accurate

  • Cite your sources

  • No AI. You must write the narrative, organize the information, create the presentation creatively so that it draws people in, narrate the audio narrative (if that is part of your project), etc. You may use images from the Internet, but must cite where you took them from.

• Make it beautiful

  • don’t put too many words on each slide if you are creating a PowerPoint, Google slide presentation, Prezi or some other slide presentation

  • use images (photos, icons, art) to help you tell the story

  • use colors that help viewers read what’s on the slides (for example, text is easier to read when it is dark on a lighter background)

  • if you are making a video, make sure the audio is clear and easy to hear, and/or include good music

• Make us care

  • Through words and images (and, if you’re making a video, sound) create a “story” with your presentation:

    • Introduce your topic

    • Tell us why it is important, why we should care

    • Include information viewers need to know to be informed so they consider doing something about this issue

    • Include specific information viewers can use to get involved: Who do they contact and what is the best way for them to reach out?

    • Discuss the connection between your topic and Milton Wolf and the Survival in Sarajevo story