Lightning Round

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New this year at Convention, a session with just short talks. Early Friday afternoon. Plan to attend and maybe show off something cool and/or useful. What's it called? "Lightning Talks". It appears to be called "Lightning Round" on the program, so it's "The Lightning Thing" for now. Why this session format? It's fun. Take a look at the lightning talk wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Talk. Particularly, follow the links in the Links section at the bottom for an idea of what to expect.

What are the topics? Anything related to caving, cavers, or Convention. Examples:
My project
My invention
My close call with death
Time limit? five minutes

How to register to speak? Contact Jim Washington (jwashin@vt.edu) with
Your name
The title of the talk
A short description of the talk. (not much, a couple of sentences)

Deadline for speaker registration? Anytime before Convention would be nice.

Display format? We will have a computer/projector, running OpenOffice.org Impress (available for free for most computer operating systems and mostly MS Powerpoint compatible). Send files to Jim before Convention for pre-loading onto the computer. If you have your presentation on a USB "thumb" drive, that may also work.

Jim Washington