35th ANNUAL MEETING
2021
STUDENT PAPER AWARDS
Are you a student submitting an abstract for a poster or platform presentation? If so, read the scoring criteria for student paper awards.
SEE YOU AT THE MEETING!
35th Annual Tidewater AFS Meeting
Thursday | April 22, 2021
William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Registration is open!
Registration QR Code
Meeting Location: Virtual
Registration
Use the above link or QR code to register.
Meeting Cost: $20
Meeting Cost for AFS Student Members*: Free
Payment is only accepted through PayPal.
*If you are a member of a student subunit within the Chapter (ECU, UMD, Duke, UMES), you are automatically a Tidewater AFS member.
AFS Tidewater Chapter dues are $10.00 annually.
Meeting Format
Presentations will be student-only and will be pre-recorded with live question and answer sessions hourly. As with past meeting there will be three categories:
Lightning Talks: 3-minute recorded presentation, 1-slide)
Oral Presentations (12-minute recorded presentation)
Poster Presentations (5-minute recorded presentation)
Important Deadlines
Abstracts: April 2 | 300 words or less
Recordings: Due April 16. Upload using FORM or email to Jan McDowell
Registration: Open through April 21.
There will be monetary awards in the oral and poster categories
for recording presentations.
View the detailed short tutorial presentation (6:45) above. The end result should be a recorded PowerPoint session saved as an MPEG-4 file (*.mp4). The video highlights how to create and save a voice recorded PowerPoint presentation. Please limit your recordings to the allotted time as they will be cut to 23 minutes. Use the linked FORM above to upload your video or you can email Jan McDowell.
To record in PowerPoint: Slide Show > Record Slide Show > Start Recording from Beginning > Tick both “Slide and Animation Timings” and “Narrations, Ink, and Laser Pointer” > Right arrow key to move through slides.
To save your recording in the proper format: File > Export > Create Video “Full HD” Option: Select “Presentation Quality” and “Use Recorded Timing and Narrations” > Save MPEG-4 Only > Upload to Online Google Folder.
Contact Jan McDowell with any questions.
