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This guide explores all the resources available to MCC students through the Longview Learning Center.

What is Scholar Day?


Scholar Day provides a resume-building opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to showcase their research projects or other academic activities to foster learning and help students develop their presentation skills. The event also provides an opportunity for the Longview community to engage with presenters and some of the exceptional learning experiences happening at MCC-Longview.

Scholar Day 2025

2025 MCC - Longview Scholar Day

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

12:30pm to 3pm

MCC-Longview Education Center

Are you looking for a chance to showcase research or a class project or activity that you are particularly proud to have produced? If so, consider submitting your work to be featured at Scholar Day!

This resume-building opportunity would give you a chance to practice your written and oral presentation skills for a professional audience in an interactive poster session. Applicants will be given recognition and be eligible for monetary awards.

Once you apply, you will be emailed additional instructions for how to ideally present your work.

Scholar Day Presentation Guidelines

If you choose to present with a poster, tri-fold posters are available for free in the Learning Center. Posters provide a means for presenting what has been learned to an audience. You may bring a laptop, but please let us know if you need an outlet. Ideally, the audience will walk away with a good understanding of the scope of your project. Effective presentations need to be concise and organized, visually appealing, and legible from a distance of three feet. Student presenters need to work with their faculty or staff mentor to help them with formatting to present information that may be specific to the particular discipline.

Applications for presentations should include:

  1. A title relevant to the topic.

  2. Presenter(s)’s names and their faculty or staff mentor(s).

  3. An introduction which explains the learning objective or research question. Explain why an audience should be interested in the findings of this learning experience.

  4. A body that answers the following questions: What was learned? What was discovered? Why does this matter? What is the impact of what was learned?

  5. A conclusion that summarizes what was learned and explain what others can do to further learn about this topic. Consider the following questions: How can others benefit from what was learned? How can this be applied? How can others be encouraged to learn more about this topic or phenomenon? How can this learning experience be applied to other fields and bring about positive change for others? What are the next steps?