Eye Contact

Eye contact during your speech, and any speech in the future, is highly important. Your eyes should be meeting the eyes of your audience about 90%-95% of the time. This means that you should know your speech well enough to simply glance at your notecards for your next point, then focus on your audience.

Of course if you have statistics, facts, quotes, source citations, etc... you can look down at your cards, but as mentioned, the majority of the time you are focusing on your audience.

Eye contact, and interaction with your visual aid, along with your physical presentation (body positioning, fidgeting, etc...) will be weighted a bit more heavily during this final presentation. This is why practicing for the coming speech is SO INCREDIBLY important.

Please practice WITH your visual aid at least 7 times in order to get more comfortable with your visual aid, and get to know your speech more so you can make eye contact with your audience about 90%-95% of your total speaking time.

A good way to measure this is to practice your speech in front of someone and get their opinion about your eye contact and interaction with your visual aid.