Answered: DESIGN Award at World Championships

[IrvKalb]

I have a few questions about the presentations that teams will be doing for the DESIGN Award:

1. Our team signed up in advance for certain time(s) to present. The documentation of this award says, “Each team that signs up for an interview time will receive a notification confirming their interview time …”. We haven’t received this notification. Will there be a place we can go to find out what our time slot is?

2. Approximately how many judges will we present to?

3. Will the judges come to the pits for the presentations, or will the teams travel to a specific site to present to the judges?

4. In some of the documentation for this award, it talks about a presentation. In other places it talks about an interview. We are currently working on a ten minute presentation. Is this what is expected? Should we expect that we can give this presentation straight through, or should we expect to be interrupted at different points with questions from the judges? We just want to understand exactly how this part of the process works.

Thank you,

Irv Kalb

Team 3129, the Green MacHHHHine

[Rick_TYler]

I have an answer for you from the Guru Of Awards at the World Championship:

Thanks for asking some great questions, hopefully these answers are helpful:

1. You will receive confirmation of your meeting time by the end of the current week (no later than April 8th)

2. Each team will presenting to a panel of between 2 and 4 judges

3. Teams will be traveling to the Design Award interview rooms, located on the ground floor of the Jostens Center. There will be signs at the event and more information in your interview confirmation email.

4. For the Design Award, judges are expecting a 5-7 minute presentation. The interviews are scheduled for 10 minutes, most judges will want to ask a few quick questions at the end. Please be prepared to leave your engineering notebook/journal so that the judges can quickly reference your work. While we cannot guarantee that the judges will not ask questions during your team’s presentation, most judges wait until the end of your team’s presentation to ask questions. As always, be prepared!”

Thanks,
Brad

[IrvKalb]

Thank you very much for your quick and precise answers.

Irv