Today my rocketry group had our presentation in front of our parents on our whole rocketry unit. The unit lasted from September to today. This morning before the presentation I was really nervous because last night when I was practicing I kept messing up. If I keep messing up practicing with myself then good luck presenting in front of the parents. Today while the 5E rocketry overview group and Rocket’s inc team were presenting, my nervousness kept on building up and up. When my group’s turn came up I walked over to the screen and then turned around to see the parents. That moment is probably the moment I was most nervous. As my group members were talking and as my turn to talk came closer I dreaded it more and more. When my turn came I started talking and amazingly the words came out perfectly. Soon, I got into an unstoppable flow and time flew by. Before I knew it, I had finished my first 3 slides. We went through the our second rocket slides and my next slide was the first of the third rocket slides. Now I was full of confidence and sure enough I did well on that slide, too. I felt like a machine. Finally, when I finished the slideshow with my last slide and when the audience applauded I felt really happy and it was a great moment for me. I learned an important lesson from this experience. It is, it is ok to be nervous because you’ll always do great no matter what. Here is the video of my presentation:
Your reflection was really great, I really felt like I could picture what was happening and how you were feeling. You wrote what was happening in a very unique way. Great job!
I really liked how you hooked the reader in the beginning by saying how you felt extremely nervous the night before the presentation when you are practicing because you were messing up. This created a great amount of flow which really hooked me into reading your report. Also, the way you phrased the words was just the most precise choices to possibly put into a report. You gave me background information, so that I could understand how your emotions unpacked the success of your presentation. The analogies that you put in like, “I felt like a machine.” This was very clever and also helped me understand your emotions. Great job!