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Research and Creativity Day (15 mins, general audience)

1. Explain the problem and the status quo, and how current UMW tools are lacking (2 mins)
2. Lit review of solutions from outside UMW (2 mins)
3. One flashy slide on implementation with a bunch of intimidating diagrams and buzzwords (1 min)
   1. Mention that we tried to get integrated with Banner, but were denied
4. Demo (5 mins)
5. Results (5 mins)

Research Honors Symposium (30 mins, technical audience)

1. Explain the problem and the status quo, and how current UMW tools are lacking (2 mins) (roger)
2. Lit review of solutions from outside UMW (4 mins) (jesse)
3. Implementation
   1. Database (roger) (5 mins)
      1. Requirements (majors, gen eds, etc)
         1. Prereqs
      2. Course availability
         1. (segue to a quick demo of the dept chair interface)
      3. User logon stuff (make this quick), including linking students with their advisors
      4. Schedules
      5. WI/SI-ness of certain courses
   2. Domain (roger) (3 mins)
      1. Algorithms for computing what constraints are violated, etc
      2. UML diagram showing your class hierarchy
   3. UI (jesse) (8 mins)
      1. slide or 2 on architectural choices (AJAX, EXT/JS). talk about the advantages of this (the "always dynamically up-to-date reflects requirements still unmet" thing)
      2. demo - show all features
4. Results
   1. Quantitative results (roger) (2 mins)
      1. from surveys
      2. from database (total number of logins, etc)
   2. Qualitative results (jesse) (3 mins)
      1. from surveys
      2. from talkback sessions
   3. Conclusion - really look at what we learned, and whether it makes sense to have a tool like this for UMW for the long run (3 mins)