#8 Second Presentation

Compared to Simran Sethi, these speakers from the second presentation were a huge breath of fresh air and knowledge. Unlike Simran Sethi, these speakers really knew how to connect with the audience. Because they themselves are/were college students recently, they knew how to connect with the audience. The mere fact that Rachel Barge used UCLA's anti-USC video, showed that she knew the audience to some extent to conjure up an emotion she wanted conjured up. Everybody knows USC and UCLA have a rivalry, Barge just used this information and used it effectively to get the audience stimulated. With the audience stimulated, Barge challenged us to be better than the Bruins. She had just given the audience an incentive to be green. Not just to save energy, but to beat the Bruins. The mere fact that she had done this, shows that she was able to connect with the audience. In a broader view, because these students had won awards during their enrollment in their schools, they were revealing their ideas of how they had impacted their schools with being green. Because these ideas were not hard to grasp or far from grasp, these college students really knew how to sell their ideas to the audience. They not only educated us on being green, but in a sense also passed on their torch from campus to campus to strive to be more green and impact the world.