3MT/The Gritty Talks Training Session w/ Scott Morgan

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 15:36:41 -0500

Preparation Workshop with Scott Morgan

Hello everyone,

The Graduate Student Association in collaboration with Scott Morgan, President of The Morgan Group of Washington is hosting a virtual leadership workshop titled "3 Minute Thesis / The Gritty Talks Training Session" on Dec 7th, at 1 pm.

The workshop is open to all graduate students at UMBC. However, it is well suited for students who are interested in participating in 3 Minute Thesis, PowerPoint Roulette, The Gritty Talks, or Ideathon events.

Interested students can reserve a spot by filling out the registration form below. Thank you.

1 PM- 2 PM
WebEx
Contact Gears: gsa-gears-group@umbc.edu
This is a short Ted-like talk for Graduate Students. Students will be given 5 to 7 minutes to talk about any open ended ideas, something that is new and surprising or just an idea or invention that the audience has never heard about.

Attendees will get tips regarding media training, public speaking, and learn how to properly express an idea in a short period of time
Registration Due: Dec 6th, Noon
https://forms.gle/rBxxaBizc5MXHjn19

From time immemorial, GEARS has been inviting Scott Morgan to play the role of a mentor for all the Ph.D. students who plan on participating in the 3MT Competition. For the academic year 2021 – 2022 too, GEARS is planning to collaborate with him and conduct a workshop.

Attendees will receive tips regarding media training, public speaking, and how to properly express an idea in a short period of time.
December 7th
More About Scott Morgan:

Scott Morgan, President of The Morgan Group of Washington, DC, provides media training and public speaking tips to a variety of organizations, and universities. Morgan is a Senior Associate of the Abshire Inamori Leadership Academy, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in DC.
Scott Morgan has been teaching communication skills for 21 years. His clients include the National Institutes of Health, the Mayo Clinic, Merck, NASA, EPA, City of Hope Cancer Center, and several universities: Harvard Medical School, UNC-Chapel Hill, Cornell, Maryland, Ohio State, Minnesota, Duke, Nebraska, and NC State University, and Texas A&M. He has 25 years of broadcast experience and teaches media and communication strategy to many think tanks in the Washington DC area. Specifically, as a Senior Associate with the Abshire Inamori Leadership Academy of the Center for Strategic and International Studies(http://csis.org/expert/scott-morgan). Scott graduated with honors from the University of California, Davis, and authored the book Speaking about Science published by Cambridge University Press.
Below is more information, that we have included in the announcement/flier/post for the first session:

3 Minute-Thesis Competition:
Three Minute Thesis is an International Research Communication Competition. It is developed to support student's capacities to effectively explain their research in language appropriate to an intelligent but nonspecialist audience. Participants will compete with one another and the winner will be competing in National level 3 Minute Thesis Competition.
The "Gritty Talks"
The talks that make one or two very strong points, and it's important, an onstage look at some clever new invention that the speaker was a part of creating. Music, dance, magic, puppetry, or some other performance to captivate your audience, amazement of science and discovery, the small idea or a big one, or talk that expose your audience to an issue that they may not otherwise know about.

Ideathon

"Ideathons are intensive brainstorming events where individuals from different backgrounds, skills, and interests converge to diagnose predefined problems, identify the best opportunities, and ideate the most viable solution."

Prizes will be awarded for First Place, Second Place, Third Place and People's Choice.

Participants are required to attended two training sessions with Scott Morgan in order to compete at the GEARS Symposium. The second session will occur in Spring 2022.