Instructions for Posters


BET Home Instructions for Papers Instructions for Posters Calendar Registration Lodging & Directions Contacts Print Flyer	Instructions for Posters If you have been notified that your poster abstract was accepted, a PowerPoint prestentation of your poster is due March 15, 2007. Send it as an email attachment to posters@blackenvirothought.org After the PowerPoint presentations are evaluated, invitations to display at the conference will be sent. If you are invited to exhibit: The exhibit space at the Tuskegee University Kellogg Conference Center is located in the atriums and hallways near the auditorium. Poster set up time is scheduled for 3-5 p.m., May 22. Posters can be taken down at your convenience during the morning of May 24. Format Options for displaying posters: 4 X 6 foot cork display boards are available. A very limited number of larger boards are available. These boards are: four-panel fold out with each panel measuring 2X4 feet for a total size of 8 feet wide and 4 feet tall. These boards are available on a first-come basis. Contact Robert Zabawa at zabawar@tuskegee.edu in order to reserve a board. If your display requires a custom display board, you may bring your own. Bring push pins, extra mounting materials, scissors and other items you may need for last minute repair . Tips for Effective Poster Presentations: Attracting and Keeping Readers Make it easy : Whether you use multiple small pages posted in a sequence or a single large format poster, the information should be presented in segments that flow in an orderly manner to facilitate several viewers reading at once, perhaps jostling each other, looking around other readers. Make it inviting: Use bold colors in headings. Photos, charts and graphs get attention, so use them when appropriate. Make it simple: People are reading on the run here. Don't crowd too much information into the poster. Concentrate on two or three main points and give a reference where they can read the whole story. Business cards can send them to your web site; handouts on your table can be read later. Make it big: Type should be readable from a distance of 6 feet. So use clean, sans serif fonts at least 1/4-inch tall for body text, and 1/2-inch or larger for headings, photo captions and labels. Bold captions and labels to make them stand out from body text. Make it transportable: Make sure your poster arrives in as good a condition as it left your office. Large format posters should be laminated and rolled into a shipping tube for transport. Component posters should be mounted on foam core or other heavy stock small enough to lie flat in a suitcase or briefcase, probably 17X22 inches or smaller. Make it friendly: Don't read or talk on a phone while staffing your booth. Greet visitors with a smile but don't chatter; leave them alone to read your work and ask questions. Be available but not overbearing.
For more information email: info@blackenvirothought.org

Instructions for Posters

If you have been notified that your poster abstract was accepted, a PowerPoint prestentation of your poster is due March 15, 2007. Send it as an email attachment to posters@blackenvirothought.org

After the PowerPoint presentations are evaluated, invitations to display at the conference will be sent.

If you are invited to exhibit:

The exhibit space at the Tuskegee University Kellogg Conference Center is located in the atriums and hallways near the auditorium.

Poster set up time is scheduled for 3-5 p.m., May 22.

Posters can be taken down at your convenience during the morning of May 24.

Format

Options for displaying posters:

4 X 6 foot cork display boards are available.
A very limited number of larger boards are available. These boards are: four-panel fold out with each panel measuring 2X4 feet for a total size of 8 feet wide and 4 feet tall. These boards are available on a first-come basis.
Contact Robert Zabawa at zabawar@tuskegee.edu in order to reserve a board.
If your display requires a custom display board, you may bring your own.
Bring push pins, extra mounting materials, scissors and other items you may need for last minute repair

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Tips for Effective Poster Presentations: Attracting and Keeping Readers

Make it easy : Whether you use multiple small pages posted in a sequence or a single large format poster, the information should be presented in segments that flow in an orderly manner to facilitate several viewers reading at once, perhaps jostling each other, looking around other readers.

Make it inviting: Use bold colors in headings. Photos, charts and graphs get attention, so use them when appropriate.

Make it simple: People are reading on the run here. Don't crowd too much information into the poster. Concentrate on two or three main points and give a reference where they can read the whole story. Business cards can send them to your web site; handouts on your table can be read later.

Make it big: Type should be readable from a distance of 6 feet. So use clean, sans serif fonts at least 1/4-inch tall for body text, and 1/2-inch or larger for headings, photo captions and labels. Bold captions and labels to make them stand out from body text.

Make it transportable: Make sure your poster arrives in as good a condition as it left your office. Large format posters should be laminated and rolled into a shipping tube for transport. Component posters should be mounted on foam core or other heavy stock small enough to lie flat in a suitcase or briefcase, probably 17X22 inches or smaller.

Make it friendly: Don't read or talk on a phone while staffing your booth. Greet visitors with a smile but don't chatter; leave them alone to read your work and ask questions. Be available but not overbearing.

For more information email: info@blackenvirothought.org