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[INTRO MUSIC] SUSAN: Student Scholars Day began at Grand Valley in 1996 it was originally started in the division of math and science and the original idea was to provide an opportunity for students to come together within the math and science division and the majors that were housed there to talk about their work SSD has grown extensively and has about 700 presenters per year we have posters and oral presentations, exhibits, and performances ROBERT: I've done Student Scholars Day for, I think three or four years now at GVSU and the first few times it was a practice at giving talks so it's kind of my first chance to give more of a professional type talk ELLIE: It was really nice for students on Student Scholars Day to be able to come around and look at our poster and to really ask us questions about our project and it was also nice for the faculty that were walking around to just be like, hey, what are you doing? And to be interested in our project and to ask us questions about it and so overall Student Scholars Day was good for just exposure SUSAN: For the students who present at Student Scholars Day there's a two-fold benefit the first benefit is they have an opportunity to share with the campus their research and their scholarship. In addition to that it does provide an opportunity for students to experience presenting in a smaller venue before going to their regional, national, and international conferences so it gives them that opportunity to try presenting to see what they like, what they don't like to receive some good constructive criticism as well as some support before they go on to those national conferences ROBERT: This was the first time that I got to actually present something that I was working on so it was kind of personally fulfilling but then also I got a practice run at what you would been doing in more of a professional setting so when I went to conferences later working on posters and talks and things like that I already had a flavor for what I should be doing and where the hangups are [OUTRO MUSIC]