Hello! Will the top entries in Girl Powered be separated into two categories (VEX EDR and VEX IQ)? Or is simply the top team overall, regardless of age/competition goes to Worlds?
Also, how is voting taken into account with regards to the top 3? Other online challenges taken into account community votes - will GP do the same?
Lastly, when will the results of the challenges be posted?
Thanks!
All entries for Girl Powered will be judged according to the published Requirements and Eligibility guidelines for this challenge. Entries are not separated by program category, which means VIQC and VRC are judged together (Note that this will be clearly stated for challenges that do have separate program category entries, like the CAD Engineering Challenge, for example).
For voting, as stated in the Judging Information section of the Girl Powered challenge, “Judges will select at least ten finalists from the submitted entries and will take community-voting results into account in making their final selections.” And please keep in mind, votes are a percentage of the overall score calculation. Just because an entry receives a high volume of votes does not necessarily mean it will win, as all entries are evaluated against a specific list of criteria resulting in a final score calculation.
Winners of Online Challenges will be announced March 3, 2017 at 4:00pm Central Time. Finalists will be posted prior to that date in mid-February.
Good Luck!