Overview Ignite is an innovative and fast-paced style used to deliver a concise presentation. Usually, the speaker presents material in a PowerPoint, with the slides advancing automatically every 20 seconds. You are not required to meet this standard, but you are encouraged to try. Ignite presentations should not be thought of as a shorter version of a standard presentation. Instead, the goal of an Ignite presentation is to drive home one key point to the audience. Ignite presentations are a form of social marketing. Social marketing applies the principles of product marking to social issues. Ignite presentations have become more popular in public health to ignite a call to arms around important public health issues. In many ways, an Ignite presentation is akin to a commercial in which your goal is to "sell" your idea to your audience. Once you formulate the idea you are intending to "sell, the rest of your Ignite presentation is designed to "close the sale." A good Ignite presentation has audience members sold on your key idea and ready to buy into the social issue you are selling. Refer to the Ignite Presentation Examples link on the Course Menu for sample presentations. Tag Line Developing a slogan or tag line is one way to begin creating your ignite presentation. Think of a tag line for a product you buy in your daily life. A quality tag line sticks in your mind and shapes your future purchasing habits. Ignite presentations brand an idea in the audience's mind so that the message you deliver raises their awareness and helps shape their future social interactions concerning the issue. Once you develop your tag line, it is important to build the rest of your ignite presentation to drive home the key message you are selling to your audience. Content or information that does not directly tie into to your theme, or even if it relevant to the topic, but too far removed from the theme, should be cut from an ignite presentation. For this purpose, presenters often use pictures as they "stick" in people's minds, are easier for the audience to digest, and can help connect the dots between the points you raise and the main theme of your presentation. Practice is important for an ignite presentation as trying to wing it often leads to a speaker veering off topic, which then muddies the message they intended to convey. Example public health Ignite presentation tag lines include: "the future you want is the future you make the future that you got was the future that someone else made... and not very well" "the skinny on eating disorders" "public health is literal wealth: how a prevention approach can save health care "sleep is the number one stress buster You will use your tag line in your test video, as well as in your final presentation. Follow the instructions below to complete your Ignite presentation./nCreate Your Ignite Presentation 1. Select one of the environmental health problems from the available lists of issues found at the EPA A to Z Topic Index. (Or, depending on the pace of the course, topics may be assigned to students at the instructor's discretion.) 2. Create PowerPoint slides on your topic, according to these guidelines: O You must cover four main areas: o o . An overview of the topic, including how the problem impacts the environment and those living it. Case study: a current example of the problem from a reliable news source (no more than 5 years old). How the problem discussed in the news article is being addressed. Future potential issues resulting from this problem. Bullet points on slides cannot be more than four words long. Graphics are encouraged. Scoring Guide - 230 points total 50 points: Overview of the topic including how the problem impacts the environment and those living it. 50 points: Current investigation of the problem from a reliable news source (no more than 5 years old). 50 points: How the problem discussed in the news article is being addressed by the field. 50 points: Future potential issues resulting from this problem. 30 points: Creation of Zoom account, formatting of video, and professional presentation.

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