Project Continuation/Funding Approval Presentation

This is a presentation of your group's semester project. It will be presented to selected business professionals who will act as members of the Board of Directors of your company. The prime purposes of this presentation are to request the approval for continuation of this project into the next semester and to request the approval to submit a grant proposal (SBIR phase I) to support the continuation of the project. The funding of the grant proposal will be used to both support the efforts of the next semester and to develop a project prototype to prove of the project's concept.

It is envisioned that the group's project manager will be the main presenter for this presentation. You may choose to have your project manager introduce the presentation and group members, and then turn the actual presentation over to another group member. Other members of your group should either present those portions of the overall presentation in which they are the group's resident topic expert or answer any questions pertaining to their responsibilities.

This presentation is essentially a briefing of the major elements of the project's SBIR grant proposal (a 410 semester deliverable). That deliverable contains the formal functional description of the selected project:

• the problem that the project addresses
• the scope of group's proposed problem solution
• the requirements of that solution
• the proposed schedules
• the required budgets for the phases of the schedules
• the individual plans and methods to be used in order to achieve the expected results.

• "Why should we continue with this project next semester?"
• "Why should the SBIR granting agency fund this project?"

It is anticipated that this presentation could be as long as 30 minutes. A question and answer period of approximately 15 - 30 minutes should be planned to follow the formal presentation.

Remember that this presentation must convince the Board of Directors that this project is in the best interests of the company and that your group has described a sound plan to achieve the project's results. This presentation must contain the critical support information that justifies the continuation of the project. Several sections of the grant proposal are particularly important and will likely receive very close scrutiny by the Board of Directors:

1. Project's scientific and technical merit and innovations
2. Importance of the problem
3. Project's budgets:
   • Phase 0 SBIR - CS410,
   • Phase I of the SBIR - CS411 (to include an overview of the prototype design)
   • Phase II - functional prototype and development
   • Phase III - production with commercial applications and financial returns
   • Post Production (Out years) - support of the project after production
   • please refer to the Phases document for more information
4. Proposed performance periods for the phases - schedules
5. Mangement plans to achieve the project's objectives