Student gives advice on senior project presentations

Nerves were high in the building as senior Shaket Chaudhary along with many other seniors waited to present their senior projects.

The process began at around 8 a.m. when a portion of the seniors got their room assignments and waited to be dispersed to their rooms at 8:30 a.m., with four students per classroom presenting in front of four judges.

“[Presenting] was nerve-racking in the beginning but when you actually start presenting it’s really easy and the judges are really nice,” Chaudhary said.

One of those judges was Angie Bekins who has been judging for the past seven years.

“I really enjoy listening to everything these kids present,” Bekins said. “I look forward to this time of year every year.”

Bekins says one thing that makes a senior project presentation good is someone who is at ease talking in front of people. And some of the best senior projects she has seen are the ones that students are personally involved in because they know everything about it.

This was the case for Chaudhary. Because he didn’t have a math class to take his senior year, he decided to make a blog about math for elementary school students. He spent thirty minutes each week putting together a topic and writing to post for students to read.

Chaudhary says that reaching the time limit of 10 minutes for students not going for a commended diploma and 12 minutes for students going for a commended diploma wasn’t hard. He was able to say all that was required of him to say and still go over the mandatory time.

Both Chaudhary and Bekins give the same advice regarding senior project and that is to not put off senior project.

“Try and get everything done on time and don’t procrastinate,” Chaudhary said. “It’s really nice once you figure out what you want to do.”