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POSTER
Thank you for
your interest in the 5th Encuentro Fronterizo / Meeting on
the Border Environment “Collaborating in a Changing
Border Environment”. We are excited that you are willing
to participate in this year’s event. We anticipate the
presence of over 200 participants from all along the border.
We will begin this year with a Border Environment Bazaar,
an interactive session during which participants will be able
to share and exchange information and ideas about their work
on the border by displaying a poster. This session will take
place during the first evening of the Encuentro and will be
followed by two days of participatory workshops. All will
culminate in the development of agendas for border environmental
action, and hopefully, collaboration in environmental projects
along and across the border.
We are asking participants to
prepare a poster per organization regarding their environmental
related projects, for the Border Environmental Bazaar and
to commit to participate in one of the four thematic tracks.
The Bazaar and tracks will address this year’s themes:
Environmental Consequences of Changing Border Security Policy;
Water for People and Wildlife; Border Environmental Communities
and the Paradigm of Smart Urban Growth; and Pollution and
Health. On the next page you will find the proposed guidelines
for your poster.
We expect participants to arrive
Saturday, May 14th, or early Sunday, the 15th, for three days
of intense interaction and participation, ending late Tuesday
the 17th.
Get
your poster ready and share your experiences! We’ll
be expecting you!
Guidelines
for Preparing a Poster to Participate in the Border Environmental
Bazaar
2005
Encuentro sobre Medio Ambiente Fronterizo/Border Meeting on
the Environment
The
Border Environmental Bazaar will help us kick off this year’s
Encuentro. It will offer each participant an opportunity to
let others know who you are and what you are doing on the
border. Your poster or display is your chance to represent
yourself to others and will be one of approximately 100 that
will be exhibited during the bazaar. The following guidelines
are provided to help you make the most of this opportunity
to share your work and ideas. Be creative and have fun!
Elements
of a Poster or Display
* Title/author/affiliation
* Background
Motivation and Problem Statement
-Why should anyone care? What
is the problem or issue you are addressing?
Methods
-Summarize how your work is
organized and carried out.
* Activities or Results
-Present key activities or
results and key insights. Provide the most detail here. Do
not just present numbers or photos; interpret them to give
insights. Avoid large tables of numbers.
* Summary
-Summarize your work in one
or two sentences for those who are passing by in a hurry.
* Future Work
-Where do you expect to go
from here? How can others get involved in what you are doing?
Important
Design Concepts for Visual Aids
1) Make it BIG
2) Keep it Simple
3) Make it Clear
4) Be Consistent
Size
Due to the number of participants we are expecting, each poster
or display should be no more than 3ft wide x 3 or 4 feet high.
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