Among the myriad duties we have at the Visitor Center, the one giving us the most trouble has definitely been Ocean Quest.  Ocean Quest is our 30 minute presentation about underwater volcanoes off the Oregon Coast given to the public every day at 1:30.  Our mentor Bill gave us a “first draft” of the presentation the first week we were working but we werent expected to present until a few weeks ago when we were more comfortable with the material.  At this point we are all pretty comfortable with the material but the challenge has been relating it to an audience of kids, adults, and grandparents.  Our latest move was to cut about 10 slides out of the show that contained material a little too abstract for everyone to understand.  The newer version still goes around 30 minutes and we are able to spend a little more time explaining tricky slides.  Last week I did quite a few of the Ocean Quest presentations and I feel as if I dialed it down a bit more and found ways to make it a little more interesting and relatable.