SWEN-440

Individual Activity: Elevator Pitch

Purpose

Each student (presenter) pairs with a student from a different team (executive) and delivers a short elevator pitch for their team's project. The executive fills out a short evaluation form immediately after.

Logistics
  1. Students are paired with someone from a different team.
  2. Each pitch is capped at ~60–90 seconds.
  3. No reading from notes during your pitch is allowed. Real elevator pitches are spontaneous – you rarely get advance warning when the opportunity arises, so it's important to know your pitch well enough to be ready to go at any moment.
  4. Immediately after each pitch, the executive completes the evaluation form, but does not share it until the end.
  5. The pair then switches roles.
  6. Each then reviews their evaluation and discusses it with their partner.

Elevator Pitch Peer Eval

Submission

  • Prior to the class in which the activity will take place, submit an outline of your pitch in the myCourses assignment folder. It doesn't need to be formal, e.g. a series of formal bullet points is fine. Any readable document format is fine, e.g. txt, pdf, docx. Check your section's schedule for when the outline is due!
  • Following the exchange of elevator pitches, upload both yours and your partner's completed Elevator Pitch Peer Eval. Again, any readable format is fine, including a picture of the completed form.

Grading

    See myCourses