Today was awesome! It was the official innovationREADY presentation day. Eight out of the original fifteen innovationREADY teams presented their summer work to an enterprise audience. My team presented in the morning when there were 250-300 employees in the audience! There was a wide variety of employees which ranged from interns to chairmen council members. I’m very proud of my team, not only did we work hard all summer but we did a great job of presenting ourselves and our work to our audience.

As I reflect on the day I’m really surprised at how calm I was, normally I get nervous for presentations. Either the surplus of dry runs my team went through or some newfound confidence helped me overcome stage fright. On top of my confidence I got the audience to laugh at a few impromptu jokes as I demoed the software I developed. 🙂

Directly after our presentation I was swarmed by our project sponsors, project leads and employees that were interested in our project. A lot of people congratulated us and were excited to see our results. Today was very gratifying!