The Final Stretch

Only a few days left of COSMOS - it has gone so fast! The students are hard at work on their projects. In this final week, they have the following items to complete: a 7-minute video, a slide presentation, a poster, and a paper. The video should capture their COSMOS experience, using the video, image, and audio content they have been collecting during the past month. It should include elements of video processing that they have learned. Finally, they must tell a coherent story. The videos will also allow the students to fully express their creativity, as we have placed very few bounds on what they can do (in fact the only real bound is, "keep it clean!"). The presentations should be 4 minutes in duration, and succinctly describe the processing and editing techniques they used to produce their videos. The poster should reflect the content of the presentation, but in poster form. The paper should explain more fully what they accomplished, with references to research they did. This is a tall order for the final week, but I am happy to see that all the groups are on track for successful completion.

Tomorrow is the big day. They will show their videos and make their presentations to the COSMOS community in the spectacular Cal-IT2 digital theater. It will be bittersweet, as we reach the climax of COSMOS and see what the students have accomplished, but it will also mark the coming-to-an-end of a fun experience.