Focus on Creative Inquiry Poster Forum

Presenter Information

• Poster requirements
  • Poster dimensions must be 48" x 36". Preferred orientation for posters is horizontal.
  • Easels, posterboards and clips will be provided.
• Interactive digital presentation requirements
  • Digital posters allow for interactive pop-outs, image carousels, videos, and motion graphics.
  • Creative Inquiry will provide web space and templates for your poster display. You may also supply your own digital content.
  • Digital poster presenters are recommended to participate in a test run of their presentations on the Watt screens prior to FoCI.
• Presenter responsibilities
  • Print your own poster (allow at least 48 hours to print)

  • • Size final posters 3’x4’ (portrait or landscape) and save as a PDF.
    • Print to the library plotters. See https://ccit.clemson.edu/support/current-students/printing-plotting/ and click the Job Ticketing link under Plotting.

  • • • TALK TO YOUR MENTOR, you can charge the CI project to print the poster but will need the chart string or to have your mentor plot the poster
      • You may also use your personal account which allows for 1 free poster a semester

  • • If you are charging to the CI project you will need to do the following and submit to your mentor’s department accountant

  • • • The backup paperwork acceptable is a PDF of the Print Usage Report for userID that highlights the one poster printed to be charged to the CI account.
      • Whomever logged on and sent the poster to the plotter can access the Print Usage Report:

  • • • • Go to papercut.clemson.edu and log in
        • In left margin, click on Recent Print Job
        • In the bottom left corner there is a link to Export/Print as a PDF/HTML or CSV doc

  • • The Printing & Plotting desk is located on the 2nd floor of the Cooper Library, just to the right of the main stairwell. Plotting hours are Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM – 6:00. Contact: ithelp@clemson.edu, or by phone/text at (864) 656-4766.

  • Bring your poster to the Watt Center on the day you are scheduled to present
    • If you are in the AM session, arrive before 9:30 a.m. and neatly clip your poster to the assigned posterboard.
    • If you are in the PM session, arrive by 12:30 p.m. and neatly clip your poster to the assigned posterboard.
  • Stand with your poster during your assigned session.
  • Should you be chosen, one member of your team must be available at the Plenary Session to receive your award.