Some Quick Advice for Meeting of the Minds Posters
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1. The poster size for MoM posters should be 44" wide by 3 feet tall.
   This is easy to print at the CFA printer using a Stat Dept printing
   card.

2. Remember that you can get a Stat Dept printing card from Rose (one
   per team, please!).  You must return the card by May 5 to avoid an
   "incomplete" for the class (this is the individual responsibility
   of the person who signs out the card, not the team).

3. A couple of example posters are included in this directory:

     "SleepPoster.ppt"
     "Transport Lab Poster.ppt"

   In addition there are more templates at:

     http://www.ices.cmu.edu/templates.html


4. You should prepare a short "speech" to give, to 
      (a) the statistics competition judges; 
      (b) random, interested, passersby;
      (c) me.  
   Keep it short (1 min per group member) and interesting! 

5. Some advice about what to put where on a poster, and other design
   issues, can be found here:

   http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/NewSite/
   http://abacus.bates.edu/~bpfohl/posters/
   http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm

   A few pdf examples of posters can be found here

   http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/examples/

   and via links from some of the above websites.

6. You should think of the poster this way:

   * You want to draw people in from a distance.  Think of making an
     ad for the side of a bus: -- enough to make a passerby 20 feet
     away think it would be interesting to come in for a closer look

   * Once people are at your poster you want them to talk to you.  The
     poster should have a few details, and some things for you to
     point to when you give your 5 min presentation (one minute per
     group member!).  If you get the person who is looking at the
     poster to ask you good questions, you are doing good.

   * Posters are visual.  Lots of tiny text is bad.  Tiny figures or
     tiny figure labels are bad.  Make it big, with just enough text
     to suggest what is "going on". 

I hope this helps!

see you next weds at MoM,

-BJ