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So You Want to Be a Presenter? Come on, talk Nerdy to me!

Also, please scroll down and check out the Guideline specs before submitting.

Guidelines:

Find something specific within your area of expertise. You will not have enough time to give a broad overview of your subject, so pick one idea and build around it.

Your presentation must be fun! This is not a classroom or a lecture hall. Your audience is a bunch of tipsy nerds in a bar who want to be entertained, so your presentation should have a fun factor.

Audience participation, props, demonstrations, etc. are all encouraged! Get creative!

You can project video and audio with your presentation. We love visuals.

Once you have your idea, complete the form above with a brief description of what you’d like to present and a little about your background.

Time commitment:

You must be able to commit to creating the slideshow for your presentation on a specific timeline. A full draft, abstract, or outline will be due one week before show date – we don’t need a thesis, but we need enough to promote your presentation. The sooner you can get that to us, the better. This is a casual show, but we depend on presenters to be prepared and on schedule.

The show will take place on a Thursday at 7, and you must be at the venue (Southern Strain Plaza-Midwood) by 6:30pm.

Subject choices:

While we love having a wide variety of different subjects at Nerd Nite, not every subject is suitable for our shows. We generally do not host presentations that are strictly opinion-based, political stump-speeches, or pseudoscience (science-fiction is welcome, love to hear about the requirements of an emergency response program to a Kaiju attack from someone with an emergency response management background, but home remedies for radiation sickness won’t likely fly).

We also don’t typically cast people to present scientific subjects in which they have no academic or professional background. We do cast people who have experience with hobbies, crafts, and other niche interests without being professionals, but for the sciences, we need a basis for presenting you as an expert.

Your subject may or may not be a good fit for Nerd Nite, depending on how you pitch your idea. We don’t just do science presentations, but there needs to be an element of nerdiness: fun facts, interesting techniques, information most people don’t know, the history of something, and so on. Please feel free to pitch your idea, even if you are unsure!