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5-Minute Fast Track: Preliminary Round 1

Tuesday, October 19, 2021 - 5-Minute Fast Track Competition: Preliminary Round 1; 5 - 7PM; WT Young Library Auditorium -- Live student presentations!

5-Minute Fast Track: Student Presentation & Slide Workshop

Learn from 2020 5-Minute Fast Track winners and finalists about creating a powerful 5-minute lightning talk and designing an engaging and informative competition slide.

5-Minute Fast Track: Registration Opens

1 Slide. 5 Minutes. Outstanding research! The 5-Minute Fast Track is an academic competition that cultivates students’ presentation and research communication skills and challenges them to describe their research within five minutes. Exciting oral research competition that represents the diversity of scholarly work at UK and awards cash prizes.

5-Minute Fast Track Competition Winners Announced

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 16, 2020) — Ten University of Kentucky undergraduate student finalists recently competed in the final round of the third annual 5-Minute Fast Track Research Oral Competition. The competition included two virtual preliminary rounds, with the top 10 students advancing to the final championship competition. This year’s final round was hosted in the UK's Worsham Cinema and livestreamed to a virtual audience.

5-Minute Fast Track: Final Championship

Tuesday, October 20, 2020 - 5MT Fast Track Competition - Final Championship Round; 5PM - 7PM

5-Minute Fast Track: Preliminary Round 2

Wednesday, October 14, 2020 - 5MT Fast Track Competition - Preliminary Round #2 4PM - 6PM; Zoom live student presentations with Q&A from judges

5-Minute Fast Track: Preliminary Round 1

Tuesday, October 13, 2020 - 5MT Fast Track Competition - Preliminary Round #1 4PM - 6PM; Zoom live student presentations with Q&A from judges

5-Minute Fast Track: Competition Slide Deadline

October 10, 2020 - Final competition slide must be emailed to UGResearch@uky.edu by 11:59PM

5-Minute Fast Track: Registration Deadline

1 Slide. 5 Minutes. Outstanding research! The 5-Minute Fast Track is an academic competition that cultivates students’ presentation and research communication skills, and challenges them to describe their research within five minutes. Exciting oral research competition that represents the diversity of scholarly work at UK and awards cash prizes.

5-Minute Fast Track Presentation & Slide Workshop

Learn from 2019 5-Minute Fast Track winner, Frannie Salisbury, and OUR ambassadors about creating powerful lightning talks and designing your competition slide