You are going to make a presentation that has two parts that you can integrate (or not) in any way you choose. We will use Keynote (in the iWork folder inside applications).

First, you will give the audience information about your Remote Control Car. You will have at least one slide (and may have several) for each of the following:

• The Design of your car (where you got it, why you picked it, unique elements of the design, etc.)
• The Building of your car (did you build stright from the plans, how smooth was that process, any adaptations you made, how did the team work together to do the building, etc.)
• The Programming of your car (what were your initial ideas, what programming concepts did you use, how was the going and the steering integrated inot one program, what worked and didn't work, what changes did you have to make, etc.)
• The Operation of your car (how did it work, what worked well, what could have worked better, how, how did your car operate during the time trial, etc.)

Second, you will do a little research about one of the following (Jim will assign you a topic):

• the Lego® Mindstorms® and RCX Brick we used to build the cars and remote control
• the programming language we've been using, MacNQC
• rack and pinion design
• mechanical differential design

You will present on the history and uses of one of these. This information should be in your own words and comprise 3 or 4 pages of your presentation.

You must cite at least 3 sources for your work on this presentation. At least two sources from your research (the second part of your presentation) and at least one source from the reference or plan you used to build your car. If you use more sources, or you use text, images, or multimedia (audio, video, etc.) that is not your own work, you must cite sources for these as well.

Please use the following example, taken from the LSRHS Library's A Guide to Research and Plagiarism, for the format of your citations:

For websites --

Mozambique Page. Ed.: Ali B. Dinar. 22 Jan. 2003 <http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Mozambique.html>.

This takes the form: Page Title. Author or Editor. Date. <Website Address>.

For books --

Darch, Colin and Calisto Pacheleke. Mozambique. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1987.

This takes the form: Author(s) Last Name, First Name. Title. City, State: Publisher, Year of Publication.

Use the final page of your presentation for a list of your sources in alphabetical order.

Add transitions between all slides and if you have time, try adding some builds. See this tutorial for more info about Keynote. Or this page with videos from Apple.

Make it informative, fun, and interesting.

You slide show should be at least 9 slides:

• one title slide
• at least four slides about your 'bot
• at least three slides about your research subject
• at least one citation slide

You may want to add a second title slide to transition between the slides about your 'bot and the slides about your research subject.

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