Louis Stokes Midwest Regional Center of Excellence

Virtual Poster Competition

Calling all undergraduate and graduate student researchers! The asynchronous virtual competitive poster session is an opportunity to share and learn about the research being done by undergraduate and graduate students across the STEM community.

The virtual poster session will take place on Saturday, October 23, 2021. The awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, October 24, at 2:00 PM ET.

Students will upload their poster file and a recorded video of them presenting their poster by October 11th. Judges will score posters and video presentations the week of Oct 15-21.

Then on Saturday, October 23rd, students will logon to the poster session and answer questions about their poster in the discussion area that are posted by conference attendees. There will be no live presentation of your poster during this time.

Undergraduates, post-baccalaureates, graduate students, fellows, and post-docs who are conducting research in any of the following areas: biological sciences, computer sciences, engineering sciences, environmental sciences, mathematical sciences, physical sciences (Astro, Chemistry, Physics), socio/behavioral sciences, or technology.

**ATTENTION: Due to lack of opportunities for students to conduct in-person research in 2020-2021, LSMRCE is accepting abstracts still in the early/planning phase of research. Do not hesitate to submit. Just be sure to follow the abstract guidelines! **

If your abstract is selected for presentation, an email invitation will be sent to you by September 25, 2021.

The virtual poster session is a competitive session for cash prizes. The top 5 undergraduate posters and the top graduate student poster wins cash prizes. Prize amounts will depend upon the number of conference registrants.

• SEPT 17^th, 2021 @ 11:59 PM ET - Abstract Submissions due at 11:59 PM ET via online application
• SEPT 24^th - LSMRCE will send out the notifications to selected presenters.
• SEPT 29^th @ 6:00 PM ET - Live demonstration and tips on creating your recorded video presentation.
  View the 2020 recording here: https://youtu.be/VuAWnPUCt2A | PowerPoint Slides
• OCT 6^th @ 6:00 PM ET - Live training and Q&A on how to upload your poster material to Symposium.
  View the 2020 recording here: https://youtu.be/mPrWebgqxjA
• OCT 11^th @ 11:59 PM ET - Upload your material by Monday, October 11, at 11:59 PM ET. Information about how to upload your presentation material will be presented in the October 6^th webinar.
• OCT 23^rd - The LSMRCE virtual poster session will take place online. There will be two 45-minute poster sessions held on Saturday. Each poster presenter will be assigned one of the two sessions.
  • Session 1 will be from 11:00 – 11:45 AM ET
  • Session 2 will be from 2:00 – 2:45 PM ET
  • The author(s) must stay in logged into the poster session and respond to the questions posed in the discussion board for the duration of the assigned poster session.
• OCT 24^th @ 2:30 PM ET - Awards Ceremony

• Abstracts due on September 17, 2021 at 11:59 PM ET
• Poster materials (abstract and video) due on October 11, 2021 at 11:59 PM ET

Submit your formatted research abstract by Monday, September 17, 2021 at 11:59 PM ET by clicking the button below.

Submit

• Abstract Guidelines
• Abstract Rubric
• Poster Rubric

• Uploading your Poster Material to Symposium, includes a demonstration of how to upload your poster .pdf and recorded presentation; recorded on 10/08/2020
• Recording your Poster Presentation, presented by Brian Thomas; recorded on 9/30/2020.
• Abstracts and Posters, presented by Wisc-AMP Bridge to the Doctorate fellows, Darian James and Alexius Lampkins; recorded on 7/15/2020.

• https://ilovepdf.com/ (pdf file size reducer)
• https://www.panopto.com/ (free presentation recorder)
• https://screencast-o-matic.com/ (free presentation recorder)