Practice pitches. Second round (II): Demigod

It is time to evaluate ourselves. This week we had a second chance to show our project to the rest of the class, and practice the final presentation, which is going to be held next May, 13.

We prepared a new handout, much more simple,  and including just a couple of keywords. This was one of the task I did last week, and I am think that the new design is much better than the first handout version. However, I made a grammatical mistake when writing the text on the handout: "Improve your health, fitness, and nutrition through challenges that help you build heathly habits and create the lifestyle you want"

A classmate noticed that there was a mistake on the text, and he told as where it was. So, I fixed the error (heathly" to "healthy) just after the Monday's class. I think it is always good to accept your own errors, and the handout was my responsibility.

Apart from the handout mistake, these are my reactions on the pitch itself:

- Matt S. spoke more fluent in general, but we still had too many facts in the first part of the pitch. We definitely have to cut down the number of facts and references about the current state of America.
- Despite testing the slides on Matt F's laptop before the pitch, we had problems (again) with the screen resolution.
- The demo was more interesting in general, because we change from a prerecorded video to a live demo.
- On the demo, we made another relevant mistake when Matt F. tried to login via Facebook using his account, and it did not work (his account was blocked). We should have tested it prior to the demo. Anyway, next time we are going to use my account, or the one of Natalie.
- We should deal somehow with the potential cheating made by the users.

Reactions from classmates and Professor Ackley:
- A classmate suggested speaking a little bit more about the intellectual challenges, because we talked too much about the nutritional/physical challenges (tons of studies and references about the body, nutrition, etc.)
- Ackley said that we spent a lot of time in the first slide.
- Compare our application with the competence. It could lead to the use of Goldilocks Method, which may be interesting in my opinion.
- Avoid using the "Our solution" slide.
- Hide Ubuntu's sidebar when displaying the slides (i.e., use fullscreen mode).
- Use short challenges on the demo, for example, a challenge that needs only 1 check-in along 1 week. This would allow us to show how a success challenge looks like.

Based on the mistakes we made, and especially on the feedback we got, we will try to prepare the final pitch. Only 15 days left...