Final Deliverable

EVERYONE SUBMITS THEIR FINAL DELIVERABLE(S)

You established these deliverables for your project(s) at the beginning of the fall, but you should feel free to update them (in your own mind and with your lab) to reflect what you actually accomplished.

Upload (Also upload to your individual folder in Box) your final deliverables by:

  1. December 5, 2025 in the fall
    File Name: FA25_FinalDeliverables_yourfirstandlastname

  2. April 25, 2026 in the spring
    File Name: SP26_FinalDeliverables_yourfirstandlastname

  3. August 9, 2026 in the summer
    File Name: SU26_FinalDeliverables_yourfirstandlastname

    (append “_1,” “_2”, etc. to the end if you are submitting multiple files in a folder)

What is it?

Some sort of end point summary of the work you have completed on your project(s) this fall/spring/summer. It could easily be an update or next step of your previous deliverable(s).

We ask you to establish these deliverables in your Research Plan. Hopefully, you’ve been working towards these deliverables, but if they changed, that’s ok.

Can my deliverables change from what I proposed?

The only certainty in research is that things will not go exactly as planned. You are not constrained by the initial deliverables that you set in your Research Plan. You can update these as needed.

BUT what you shouldn’t do is use this flexibility as a justification for not trying to meet your realistic deliverables.

If you do change your deliverables, you should do so with your lab/PI/mentor/project leader. You are welcome to update the Research Plan form, but this isn’t required.

Format

A few suggested options:

  • a work-in-progress scientific manuscript

  • an extended presentation that can stand alone (must be more than the final presentations we are having everyone do)

  • a walk-through of manuscript figures

  • a section of a review article

  • a protocol or experimental plan for future work

  • your annotated working code

  • a storyboard outlining your work and accomplishments

  • a white paper describing your stance

  • a technical paper describing how to create something and the outcomes from following those steps

  • a video demo of a working prototype

  • figures with extended captions showing results

You should ultimately deliver whatever makes sense for your project(s)!!!

You can combine your deliverables into a single document or make several documents. If you do the latter, you can append “_i” to the end of your files, where i = 1…n, and n is the total number of deliverable documents you have.