The Exhibit

Your complete excavation — the site, the findings, the diagnosis, the ethics, and the restoration — presented for an audience that has never seen the codebase.

Due: 24 May 2027 · Weight: 50%

The brief#

The Exhibit is the final presentation of your semester’s work. Your audience has never seen your dig site; your job is to make them care about it.

Structure your exhibit in five parts:

1. The site: what the project was, who built it, when it was active
2. The excavation: your key findings — stratigraphy, inscriptions, architecture, documentation, oral history if applicable
3. The diagnosis: cause of death, supported by the full weight of your evidence across the semester
4. The ethics: should this project be revived? Your position, and your reasoning
5. The restoration: what you brought back in week 11, what you changed, what you left alone, and why

Present in 10 minutes. Submit a written companion of 2000 words alongside your presentation materials.

What you submit#

The presentation (slides or equivalent) and the written companion (PDF or Markdown). The restoration diff, as a branch or fork URL, is part of the submission.