At the end of the week 11, it was finally time for the grande finale. All the work we have done would culminate to one single 3 minute presentation and a poster. However, as the so called dress rehearsal went very well, we felt quite confident at the beginning of the week.
We all did our parts individually but we wanted to wait the feedback from Tuomo before making any major changes together. Once again Tuomo called our group leader Matias very promptly on Tuesday exactly at 12pm and gave some useful insight. The issues Tuomo recommended us to consider were as followed.
1) More excitement to presentation
2) More visual slides
3) Use our numbers and refer to sources we have used
4) Try to bring our concept and use of the app somehow together.
Points 1-3 were adopted straight away. Väinö promised to do new slides that turned out to be great. We rehearsed a few more times together and tried to be more excited and proud about what we have accomplished. Matias also made some minor changes to his part in order to include some key facts for example about the survey process.
Nevertheless, the fourth part was more difficult. We thought about different ways to unify our presentation. It proved to be that difficult that we had to abandon it. It was already Wednesday, our presentation was very fluent and we had no clear vision how to do it so we decided to stick with the old presentation. We had to just do it in more amazing way. In addition, in Presemo we got feedback that all the different names we used in dress rehearsal (group, project, app) were really confusing. Thus, we determined to use the name of our product, ParkIt, in every context.
The actual grande finale was only a very part of the job. Of course by far the most important one, but we had been practicing so much, that we just went to the stage and did everything as many times before. Juuso also made a really cool poster, that really stand out visually. All together, everything went really well and we were really pleased about what we achieved.
Our group presenting in the Grande finale
The event itself was a success. It was nice to visit all the stands and see what others have been doing, even though we had seen the presentations before once. It just felt sort of a festive occasion with the speak-up speaches from Stina, all the fuss, stands, microphones etc. that it was nice to took part.
At the end I have to admit this all feels a bit empty. First we did not even know each other, then we did this stuff together for weeks.. and now it is just over and everybody goes to their own direction.. Still, it was nice to work in group with many different backgrounds and many different skills. I hope that is visible considering the result as well.
There is still one week to go, when we will wrap up the course. So see you one more time!
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