Five Minute Research for Postdocs (5MRP)

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Competition Details and Deadlines

The Five Minute Research Competition for Postdocs (5MRP) is a research communication competition developed by The Graduate School and hosted by the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs at Florida State University in which postdoctoral presenters are asked to: 

  1. Explain the impact of their research in five minutes and;
  2. Do so alone (no teams).

Trainees may use ANY medium they want to present their research (i.e., slides, video, sing, dance, recite literature, props-anything!). However, the information must appeal to a non-specialist audience, reach across their discipline, and challenge the audience to want to know more!  

Registration 

Qualtric's Registration Link TBA

 

Preliminary Rounds

All competitors must register for the preliminary rounds by July 29, 2020.

Finalist Competition

The Finalist Competition will be held on September 18, 2020 from TBA in TBA.

Registration

The call for 5MRP practice auditions will go out from the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs in mid-summer. Registration will close on July 29, 2020. You are encouraged to design and practice your oral presentation to a wide range of specialists and in collaboration with your mentor prior to your assigned preliminary round.

Preliminary Rounds

  • All competitors must register by July 29, 2020 for a practice audition in the month of August. The top 10 presenters will advance to the final competition held the week of National Postdoc Appreciation Week. 
  • Preliminary round judges will provide useful critiques to strengthen the impact and delivery of the presentation and revisions can be incorporated for the final competition. 

Finalist Competition

  • The finalist competition will be held on September 18, 2020. 
  • All decisions of the judging panel are final. 
  • You are welcome to invite your research group, mentor, colleagues, and community friends to the finalist competition. They get to participate in judging the People's Choice award! 
  • Presenters will give permission to be filmed and will upload necessary career information to a Qualtric's Survey to facilitate depositing the video into FSU's GradWorld website, which houses graduate student, alumni, faculty and postdoctoral videos and stories. Participants can elect to re-film their presentation in their native language following the competition as well. 

Competition Rules

  • All competitors must be a current postdoctoral scholar in training at the time of the finalist competition.
  • All competitors must compete in the preliminary rounds to receive constructive feedback.
  • Note judging rubric (see next section). 
  • If longer than 5 minutes, presenters will be disqualified. 

Judging

  • Comprehension: Was the background and key results clearly described and logical to follow?
  • Comprehension: Did the presenter communicate to an educated layperson's level?
  • Content: Did the presenter avoid technical jargon and use interesting content?
  • Content: Did the content want the audience to know more?
  • Engagement: Was the presenter enthusiastic? Did he/she capture the audience's attention?
  • Engagement: Did the presenter have a good stage presence, eye contact, vocal rang, and confidence?
  • Impact: Was the significance of the research stated?
  • Creativity: Was the presentation clever, novel and imaginative?

Fall 2019 Five Minute Research for Postdocs (5MRP) Competition Winners

  • 1st Place - Shirin Mozaffari, High-field Magnetic Laboratory
    • "Pushing Towards Room Temperative Superconductivity" (Link to Video)
       
  • 2nd Place - Yana Bebieva, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
    • "Deep Dive: What do Polar Oceans Conceal" (Link to Video)
       
  • 2nd Place - Katy Sparrow, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
    • "New Methods to Study the Vulnerability of Peatland Carbon to Climate Change" (Karaoke Performance) (Link to Video)
       
  • 3rd Place - Derrick Vaughn, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
    • "Blue Carbon in Northern Florida Wetlands:Implications for Climate Change Mitigation" (Link to Video)
       
  • People's Choice - Katy Sparrow, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
    • "New Methods to Study the Vulnerability of Peatland Carbon to Climate Change" (Karaoke Performance) (Link to Video)

Videos

Click on the link below to view videos from the Fall 2019 Five Minute Research for Postdocs (5MRP) Competition. 

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Photo Gallery

Click on the link below to view photos from the Fall 2019 Five Minute Research for Postdocs (5MRP) Competition. 

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