Presentations for AS 104 Winter 2019

 

Monday April 22, 2019

Mercury 3 May 5, 1961

Mercury 6 Feb 20, 1962

Mercury 9 May 15, 1963

Gemini 4 Jun 3, 1965

Gemini 8 Mar 16, 1966

Gemini 12 Nov 11, 1966

Email

Last

First

ahabicht

Habicht

Alissa M

mmcphers

McPherson

Max D

etmoore

Moore

Ethan G

cramsden

Ramsden

Clare M

cstromer

Stromer

Cully J

ewood

Wood

Emily R

 

 

 

Email

Last

First

kcleven

Cleven

Katie K

jdeboer

De Boer

Jacob S

mogarrow

Garrow

Morgan N

dholtsla

Holtslag

Dylan X

ejuday

Juday

Emily J

mmccurdy

McCurdy

Madeline G

 

 

 

 

Wednesday April 24, 2019

STS 51L Jan 28, 1986

STS 107 Jan 16, 2003

Email

Last

First

igaloney

Galo-Ney

Isabela A

jhoellen

Hoellen

John R

mmcmanus

McManus

Meara C

dwedin

Wedin

Derek J

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Email

Last

First

abuddriu

Buddrius

Alexandra K

jconner

Conner

Jerry P

timotjoh

Johnson-Thompson

Timothy M

kknaga

Knaga

Krystian K

nkuhl

Kuhl

Nick L

arange

Range

Alexa A

 

 

 

 

Friday April 26, 2019

Skylab May 14, 1973

May 25, 1973

Jun 28,  1973

Nov 16, 1973

Jul 11, 1979

Jerry Linenger - MIR

STS 81 – STS 84

Jan 12 – May 24, 1997

Email

Last

First

nbassett

Bassett

Noah M

pdietz

Dietz

Paul A

margeric

Erickson

Margo A

afair

Fair

Alianna S

jotyler

Tyler

Joshua S

liwhite

White

Lindy C

 

 

 

Email

Last

First

akempke

Kempke

Andrew N

skraft

Kraft

Spencer J

blige

Lige

Ben M

bramarti

Martin

Brad D

janapete

Peterson

Janae L

rstieve

Stieve

R. J. B

 

 

 

 

There are SIX groups for presentations shown above.  The presentations will be held during the last week of the semester as indicated.  The topics are milestone space missions, pretty much United States Missions.  Your talk should provide the high points of the missions, and how they were important to the goals of space exploration.  You need to decide how much of each mission to provide, you still have ten total minutes, so be judicious in your choices.

 

Avoid being bogged down in personal biographies of astronauts.  Focus on why the missions were planned and attempted.  Do not try to give degree listings, etc. of the individuals. 

 

The email provided is the NMU email.  Students may of course provide each other with other email addresses if they prefer.  The above groups were randomly chosen and will not be changed.  If there is a strong reason why one or more members of a group cannot work together, contact the professor and explain this.  If a member of a group fails to do any work or does not contribute, the other members should report this on the grading scorecard, all members must fill out.  There is the potential that one or more group members may have already or will drop out of the course before the presentation.  Should a group be reduced to a point that they cannot produce the presentation the remaining members should contact the professor.

 

Each group is to produce an approximately 10 minute PowerPoint Presentation to the class about their topic.  Each group member is to prepare and present part of the presentation.  This does mean that all members of the group must be present during the presentation and must speak for an approximately equal share of the 10 minutes. 

 

Note: if a member of the group does no work and shows up for the presentation, the group is not obligated to provide any material.  The group may inform the professor at the start of the presentation that the individual did no work and therefore will not be presenting.  However, the professor should have been made aware prior to that day that this possibility might occur.

 

After the presentation is completed, a single final copy of the PowerPoint Presentation will be copied onto a jump drive provided by the professor so that he can review the presentation later as he considers the grades for the project.  Note: it is most likely that he will not give final grades until all presentations have been made.  Please understand that the professor does not want a google docs link, or some other online presentation.  The university has issued you PowerPoint; I am requiring that you use it so that a copy of the presentation may be easily downloaded to a USB drive.

 

You must compile and include in a summary slide or two all references used for creating the presentation.  If you use internet sources, complete URL’s are expected.  Keep in mind the professor might actually check these.

 

While the 10 minutes is not a firm time limit, presentations differing significantly from this will be penalized in points.  Part of this assignment is considering what the most important elements to present are.  Remember there will be two presentations during a class period and the professor is allowing about 25 minutes total for this, so have at least one complete run through to ensure the timing of your presentation.  Finally be proactive, if you realize that you are taking more time than you thought you would or that your presentation is going to run past the time, shorten it on the fly.  Prepare your talk with slides that you can go more quickly through or even abandon if needed.  A good rule of thumb is one slide a minute.  That means for a ten minute talk about 10 may be 12 slides can be realistically shown.  As a guide, the professor averages about 25 to 30 slides for a 50-minute lecture most days.  Do not think you will quickly go through 30 slides in ten minutes (Actual past experience here).  The professor will stop a group mid talk if necessary.

 

You may not use large amounts of video from other sources as part of your presentation.  If the video is critical to your presentation, you may use up to about 2 minutes of time for this.  But you cannot use 5 or even 10 minutes of other video to make up your 10 minutes of presentation.

 

After the group has presented their presentation, each group member must email the professor a score card for the other members of the group.  Failure to email the scorecard within 24 hours will result in a lowering of your own grade as grading other members is part of the requirement for this project.  The professor will not base his grades solely on the other group members’ scores, but will consider them.  You are not grading your own work, only the other members of your group.  The scorecard is a second attachment to the email that had this file attached.  The scorecard is also located http://physics.nmu.edu/~ddonovan/classes/as103/GradingRubric.doc , please fill-out in WORD.  Save it with the appropriate name, and then again email as an attachment to the professor.  Please use the following to name your document.  Donovan_grading.docx   Obviously replace Donovan with your last name.  Otherwise the professor gets a large number of repetitious attachments all with names something like grading rubric(74).docx in my mailer.

 

Students are expected to be present for all presentations!  These presentations are part of the course and if the professor chooses to, he may ask questions on quizzes and/or the final exam about any of the presentations.  Students in the audience will not have any laptops open during the presentations.  Students will give the groups presenting their complete attention.  Talking or other distracting behaviors may result in your grade for the presentations being lowered.

 

Students are expected to treat each other with respect as they work together on this project.  Bullying, belittling, or any other unprofessional behavior will not be tolerated.  In the working world, people engage in group assignments all the time.  You should consider this practice for such a time.  If a group member is causing problems, the professor does wish to be contacted about this.  If a student is not participating the professor should also be contacted in a reasonable time frame

 

 

 
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This page last updated on March 30, 2019