Research Speeches

This week in ISM, I focused on updating my portfolio and preparing for my upcoming research speech. I printed off all my research assessments, interview assessments, and weekly reports, because I hadn't gotten the opportunity to do so for a few weeks now. At this point in my ISM journey, I'm really starting to feel the stress of balancing all my AP classes with the rigor of ISM itself. Especially this past week, I had several tests and quizzes, so it's becoming extremely difficult to put forth my best effort in everything I'm currently involved in. I'm learning just how important it is to manage my time wisely, keep organized, and stay ahead of all of my assignments and homework. Another aspect of this week was working on my research speech, which I'm actually presenting early next week. Because this speech must be between 10 to 12 minutes and I've never given a speech that long, I've been a little nervous about how it will go. I'm planning on organizing my speech into two components: one about the independent research I've done and another about the research interviews with professionals that I've had so far. Because most of my classmates don't know much about the field of biomedical engineering, I hope to share all the knowledge I've gained so far in this program and continue to improve my public speaking skills. This upcoming week, I want to practice my research speech, write another interview assessment, and begin my original work.