This speech is for Advanced Project 3 “The Nontechnical Audience” from Advanced Manual “Technical Presentation”. The objectives of this speech are
- Understand the principles of communicating complex information to nontechnical listeners
- Build and deliver an interesting talk based on these principles
- Answer audience questions that arise during the presentation
- Use overhead transparencies to illustrate your message
The timing for the presentation is 10-12 mins.
At first, I would like to talk about a topic related to my profession in the semiconductor industry. However, I felt most of the audience would not be able to understand the topic. I had to choose a topic that could be readily simplified to layman terms. I thought Internet topic is the easiest to achieve that since I believed most audience would know more or less about internet. However, after giving two technical speeches on CCK TM website in my AP1 and AP2, I decided to talk about something else on the topic of internet. After some googling, I decided to talk about Web 2.0, the second generation of Internet. I thought the topic might be interesting to the audience and also to myself.
In order to make the speech more engaging, I had designed a simple interactive game to involve the audience in guessing which website was Web 1.0 and which one was Web 2.0. I was quite please that the game turned out quite well received.
The speech was presented in the CCK TMC Oct Chapter Meeting. The evaluator was our club adviser DTM Poh Kim Siong. He pointed to me that I missed out the Questions and Answers session for audience to clarify on the topic. Ya, it was in the manual. I overlooked it.
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