For presenters

Select a Narrowly-Defined Topic
- Seminars are typically an hour in length at most, so choose a topic that can easily fit with time to spare in that window.
- There are a wide variety of topics available, but feel free to (with perhaps some guidance) step out of the box and either create a topic that has not been discussed or develop new materials and activities for an idea that has been discussed.

Be Prepared
- Develop an outline for what your seminar will cover.
- Have handouts or materials prepared in advance of the seminar for your participants. It helps your participants to jog their memory about important points that you make during your seminar that they may or may not recall after 2 or 3 days of judging.
- Think about what questions might be asked in advance, and how to address those questions.
- Provide contact information so that judges can follow up with you after a seminar.

Make it Active
- While some topics are more conducive to action than others, every participant should feel engaged and drawn into your seminar.
- Use discussion as well as other group activities to break up the time spent on a topic and help drive home your objectives for your presentation. For example, investigations have many details and intricacies that could be chronicled for hours in length. How about a discussion in small groups about different scenarios that highlight your main points? Or how about a live observation of judges interviewing a player suspected of cheating? Be creative in your approach!

Ask for Feedback
- Ask judges after a seminar about your presentation. What areas were covered well? Were there areas that could have been covered better? Did a topic crop up that could become a separate seminar topic?
- Did the seminar or discussion break down at any point? What ways can you help make your seminar flow more smoothly?

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