The Texas A&M Graduate and Professional School offers students a number of ways to benefit from 3MT. Participation in any of the 3MT-related events earns GRAD Aggies credit. 

Development Sessions

Development Sessions are one-hour workshops that focus on developing your elevator pitch, English language pronunciation tips or fine-tuning presentation skills. These may be stand alone sessions or offered together as a half-day workshop.  

Feedback Sessions

Feedback Sessions are 15-minute individual sessions in which grad students can deliver their presentations and get feedback from our professional development staff. 

Preliminary Competition

The Preliminary Competition takes place on Thursday and Friday, October 24 and 25. Participants deliver their presentations to a panel of judges who score their presentations and provide feedback. From the preliminary competition, top-scoring presenters will be selected to move on to the finals. 

All students who compete in the preliminary competition can collect 3MT swag and a professional headshot, as well as get entered into a prize drawing. 

Colleges or Departments Can Get Involved!

We invite any college, department or graduate student organization to collaborate with us to host a research elevator pitch development session in preparation for 3MT or simply to give students a chance to improve their presentation skills.

These sessions share tips on how to develop an outline, how to make the most of a visual (for elevator pitch-style competitions at conferences, how to succeed in the Three Minute Thesis competition, and how aspects of your physical presentation (movement, voice) can increase your listener’s understanding. Sessions are for anyone interested in developing their presentation skills and their research elevator pitches (regardless of if they participate in the competition). 

• If your college, department or organization would like to host one of our development sessions for your graduate and professional students during September or early October, please notify us of some potential dates/times by emailing grad-aggies@tamu.edu. We are happy to travel to you to facilitate the session in person or via Zoom.
• We're also happy to share the stage with any of your standout faculty or staff presenters. While our sessions are designed for a general audience, we would appreciate having faculty and staff provide expertise for students on discipline-specific nuances to communicating research.