Annual Poster Showcase

Submission Types:

Students have the choice between 3 categories of submission:

1. A poster either digital or physical poster.
   • See resources for templates.
   • The Poster Showcase typically includes student poster presentations that are submitted via electronic files using the link above and then printed, presented and featured in person.
   • Digital poster should be submitted as a pdf file with a page set up of 4:3 ratio.
   • Students will submit all their poster files via the link above.
   • If students prefer to create a physical poster, they will need to submit a photos of their poster.
2. A Film
   • See instructions below and resources for further instructions.
3. a Zoom Background Design for future display at the college. 
   • See instructions below and resources for further instructions.

Important Dates:

• Note: Transfer Honors Program students are required to participate.

Instructions for Contestants

Film Submissions Instructions​​​

For questions or support with Film submissions or if you would like to submit a longer film, please contact Professor Jennifer Penton at @email.

• Films should have titles, proper sound levels, and credits.

• Films should be sent to Professor Jennifer Penton at pentonjk@wlac.edu via WeTransfer or Google Drive, or they may bring them to her on external drives.

Zoom Background Design

For questions or support with Zoom Background Design, please contact Professor Elena Aviles at @email.

Note: Students who wish to submit posters related to climate change please contact Emely Otsuka at antunee@wlac.edu and Andrew Rodriguez rodrigai2@wlac.edu with the California Center for Climate Change Education for support. Examples of acceptable presentations include literature reviews, experiments, or original creative work such as poems, essays, paintings, or other art that addresses climate science, impacts, solutions, or environmental justice.

We recommend that students ask faculty members to serve as mentors on the project.

General Information

• Posters will be available for general public to view and vote for the best of the show in person. Additionally, The Center for Climate Change will recognize the best Climate Change-related submission with a Climate Change Student Choice Award Medal.
• Winners for best posters in various categories will receive certificates.

West's Institutional Student Learning Outcomes (ISLOs)

In conjunction with the Student Learning Outcomes (SLO) Committee, faculty and staff will evaluate posters according to the mapped ISLO. The poster session is a valuable tool for students to demonstrate learning at the Program and Institutional Student Learning Outcome levels and a way for the college to assess these levels of learning. These ratings will have no bearing on the judging for prizes.

View West's ISLOs Judging Rubric.