Embarrassed by my class

Today my seniors presented a project they have had one class a week to work on for the last seven weeks. They were to create a Utopian society and "sell it" to the people who come to visit class. We started the project with the understanding that someone's utopia is someone elses dystopia and that all dystopias are rooted in hope for a better future... AKA the dystopias we read this term, while horrific (We read The Giver, The Ones who Walk Away From Omelas, and The Handmaids Tale) may have been rooted in thinking that they were doing good. I had the project fully planned, scaffolded, and timelined for them and checked in with the groups a few times throughout the process.

I invited other adults in the school to come see the projects be presented today and it fell SO flat. My students clearly didn't practice presenting or prepare for any pushback or questions from visitors....

I don't know if I even want to go through with the next part of the project in the spring term. They are supposed to switch projects and demonstrate how easilly the utopia could slip into a dystopia.

Sorry for the poor grammar in this complete rant.

ETA: Here are the directions they had Directions