Poster and Pitch Reflection

Our group has been working hard and with the concept of 'NearMe' firmly underway, Team Hermes has finally begun to work on our end goals. Recently, Team Hermes had to present a pitch in which the team had to outline what our website was designed to do.

Essentially, from what our pitch outlined, 'NearMe' is a mapping website which, using both the Google Maps API and the Trove database, would create a map of Australia which would take the dates and location the user implemented and print out a list of events corresponding to what the user inputted. A simple example of this would be :

User Input: Location = Brisbane, Date = 2011

The 2011 floods were a major event at this point in time and thus would appear on the map.

Overall the pitch was a satisfactory one - Team Hermes managed to get the general concept of 'NearMe' across fairly well, but there was still a lot of room for improvement. For example, actually making a planned script would have helped majorly as there were quite a lot of awkward silences - furthermore, there was no time for the tutors to ask questions about NearMe because the team almost went overtime.

In regards to the poster, it was well thought-out and reflected the idea fairly well:

The only complaint that the team had in regards to the poster was that there was a chance that wasn't aesthetically appealing enough. Surprisingly, the tutors appeared to like the poster so our only major qualm was averted.