I had a lot of fun at Gettysburg. It was not what I was expecting. I thought we were going to walk around and look at projects, like we did at Lafayette, but instead it was more of a lesson/tutorial in the morning with peer editing in the afternoon. I’m not going to lie, I thought the morning session would be super boring, but I actually really enjoyed it. We talked about elevator speeches and the “say it in 6-ish” method. Writing out a speech, after receiving a vague outline, really helped me realize what parts of my research were the most important and what people would want to know the most about. It also made me realize that I really am comfortable with talking about my project and the process I put into it. I have to work on appropriate facial expressions while giving my speech, but other than that I feel fairly confident in my ability to talk about my work.
In the afternoon we did peer-editing, or rather more like peer-suggesting, and I got a good suggestion of something I could include. On my facts page I had a long list of things the government uses to define human trafficking, and someone suggested turning it into a photo carousel so viewers could flip through the facts rather than staring at a huge page of text. We also got ice cream afterwards, which was very nice.