Purpose

This assignment will help you learn to develop and deliver a PowerPoint-supported pitch for your new product.

Overview

In this assignment, you will create a narrated PowerPoint presentation in a semi-scripted format, then deliver your presentation to your peers. Heres some helpful information to keep in mind as you develop your presentation:

Slide Development Tips

• PowerPoint is first and foremost a visual medium. Think in pictures, charts, graphs, infographics, etc.
• Your slides should support your spoken message visually. Do not crowd a bunch of text on a slide. Make sure text is kept to a minimum and that it is readable and has good contrast.
• Think of this as telling your products storyfrom identifying the demand to describing your product, to demonstrating how youll promote it, to asking for authorization to take the next step(s).
• The outline provided in the Action Items below is a suggestion. You are not required to adhere to it.

Narration Tips

• This is a sales pitch in which you will authentically advocate for your idea. It is not to be a synopsis of your experience. The goal is to convince a panel that your idea has merit and is worth further action.
• Be compelling and engaging. Rehearse your pitch several times so that you dont need to refer to your notes.
• Your slides are to reinforce your message to the audience. They are not to act as a script for you.

Action Items

1. Review the Slide Development Tips and the Narration Tips in the Overview above.
2. Review the suggested presentation outline.
3. Develop a PowerPoint presentation to support your new product pitch.
4. Develop the spoken/narrated portion of your five- to seven-minute presentation in a semi-scripted format (an outline, not a fully-written, word-for-word script).
5. Deliver your five- to seven-minute pitch in one of the following ways. Your instructor will inform you which method youll use to deliver your pitch:
   1. Present your pitch live during a class meeting (online students)
   2. Pre-record your pitch (slides and spoken portion) and upload it for your professors review (online students)
   3. Present your pitch live in class (face-to-face students)
6. By the due date indicated, deliver your presentation as instructed by your professor.