The Trade Fair

 Last Thursday my team and I presented our project during a trade fair in Tellus in Oulu University. The trade fair was a pleasant experience, and it was also interesting to hear about other groups’ projects. During the trade fair our peers gave us feedback which we received later that week.

The first part of the feedback was about our prototype. The feedback mentioned that we should have included our prototype to our poster. I agree that it would have made our presentation clearer if we had included our prototype as a picture and not as a separate thing. This is also related to the feedback about our poster, which in we got mostly decent and positive reviews on. Overall, I am satisfied with our poster but there is always room to improve.

Our pitch was reported to be somewhat effective by 13 people and very effective by 12 people. I am happy to receive positive feedback about our pitch because I felt like our team presented our project quite well. Even though our pitch was reported effective by other teams we also got comments on our project being quite ambitious. I see where these comments are coming from, and I do also feel like the work needed to succeed in this project could be a lot. Even though we got comments about our project being too big for our group we also got feedback that stated that the product would be useful and desirable for our peers. Maybe with a bigger team and thorough planning this product could be feasible?

Overall, the trade fair was an interesting experience. I find the feedback we got to be helpful and gives me a good idea of what could be done better in the future. If I was ever to create another poster for a project, I would put more focus on creating a poster that is clearer and gives other people a good idea of what the product is like.