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Day 26 (8/12/19): Presentation Revisions

Today was very useful for making revisions and edits to my presentation. I ran through it in front of my lab this morning and got lots of helpful feedback as to how to make it more accessible to a general audience (eliminating jargon). Every day I am becoming more and more confident with the talk, and I'm looking forward to presenting on Friday!

Furthermore, I learned today that I will be able to get my RIT computer account/email to stay active for a few months after the internship ends. This will allow me to continue communicating with the lab via Slack and help review and write a research paper including some of the work I have pursued over the past six weeks. We hope to submit this paper to get it published at a conference in the fall (possible AAAI).

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