Whenever people complain of "death by Powerpoint", I remember this article from Reader's Digest in the 2000s about the Carl Hayden Community Highschool Robotics

Whenever people complain of "death by Powerpoint", I remember this article from Reader's Digest in the 2000s about the Carl Hayden Community Highschool Robotics Team who upstaged no less than MIT in competition. In one part of the contest, the teams had to discuss their design. One of the judges asked the Carl Hayden team why they had no Powerpoint slides. "Powerpoint is what you use when you don't know what to say," answered one of them without skipping a beat. Ballsy, of course, but the subtext of the story was that the team really had their hands full as they tried to punch above their weight class. They knew what they were doing but there was no shortage of opportunities for them to improvise and the presentation was one such instance. I was in high school when I read the piece and that's the line that stuck with me. Since then I always made sure I know my material, slideshow or no slideshow.