DISCUSSION POINTS TO FOCUS TODAY:
ü A pitch needs to be PERSUASIVE. Consider how YOU are persuaded? How can you use this to improve your presentation to the ADMIN team?

ü Reflecting on the chart & Wednesday’s pitch, what do you need to do today?
GOOD
NEEDS IMPROVEMENT
Good Plan
– Background info present
– Lots of educational purposes
– Had all the numbers for measurements and budget
– Interesting ideas
– Good facts
– Bunnies live long and don’t cost much
– Innovative ideas

Presentation
– Spoke very clearly
– Everyone up there spoke and participated equally
– Organized
– Good voice projection
– Good eye contact
– Good first run through
– Easy to read/understand
– Overall professionally done
– Multiple people involved

Makes me want bunnies
Plan
– Needs more detail and specifics
– Give specific examples for educational purposes
– Include more details on who will take care of the bunnies
Needs More SCIENCE – details on polyculture, what vegetation will you plant
– Emphasize how you will be including other departments in the design, construction, and implementation and how this is a learning process across the school

Presentation
– Be more specific on the slides
- Be more formal
- Dress nicely
- More pictures to use as discussion points
- How can you be more persuasive?

Still needs to be researched/answered

– What will the stage look like? Be made of?
– What is the purpose of the amphitheater? What will it look like?
– Size of the hutches
– How to clear courtyard details
– What if people steal the bunnies?
– What if a bunny escapes?
– When will all of this get done?
– How will you stop kids from messing with them?
– How can we change the idea if Schultz doesn’t like it?
– When can students use this area?
– How will we get volunteers?

More information on donations
– How will people in the community donate money?
- Give more direct proof of your ‘sources’ of donations
- Exact quotes on other money items needed
- Connect “donations” to “budget costs” more persuasively in presentation