Why attend a workshop about giving oral presentations? One participant who’d performed numerous calculations for his research, hoped to figure out which to include in his presentations. Another hoped to take her presentations to the next level—to go from just good to great. A third participant admitted that while she loved giving presentations, her body didn’t; she would shake, sweat, and have trouble breathing. These were some of the reasons the 20 or so participants gave for attending the “Making the Most of Your Presentation” workshop presented by Principiae's Jean-luc Doumont. The October 10th workshop, hosted by the Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (I-MRSEC) focused on training researchers to better communicate their science.