All guidance “callout” boxes and text should be removed before you complete your Proposed Solution Memo for submission.
<aside> ‼️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ Naming Requirement for your Proposed Solution Memo ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️
When your Proposed Solution is ready for submission here in Notion, you must use the following name convention:
Team X-y Proposed Solution → [any project name you would like here]
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All guidance “callout” boxes and text should be removed before you complete your Proposed Solution Memo for submission.
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Remember the Judging Criteria!!!
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<aside> 📽️ Start with a sixty (60) to one-hundred and twenty (120) second video.
→ Judges will stop watching at 120 seconds!!!
<aside> 🤔 Your goal with your video is to convince the viewer that:
the problem you are tackling is important (ie why should the viewer care?);
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you have developed an excellent solution to that problem!
You do not need to – and you realistically cannot – put ALL the detail you have researched into your video. You only have time for key messages, and the most important supporting data, information or examples.
You can – and generally should – inform the viewer when they can find more detail or supporting information in your written Summary or Detailed Explanation. For example, if you only have time in the video to briefly summarise the economic costs and plan for covering them, you might then point the viewer to see more details in XYZ section of the Detailed Explanation.
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<aside> ℹ️ Put the names of all team members under your video.
We strongly encourage you to link your names here to your LinkedIn profiles. Senior professionals – including, but definitely not limited to, the local stakeholders and experts you met during the Expert Studios – will be look at your work. Some may want to follow-up with you about your work, about opportunities to take your ideas forward, and even about job possibilities. You want to ensure you give them some way of reaching you!
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<aside> ℹ️ Summarise the problem that your Proposed Solution is designed to tackle → in less than 150 words!!!
This section should primarily be composed of your clearly articulated problem statement; though obviously please be sure that you clearly identify who is being impacted by the problem, and any other stakeholders that it is essential readers know about in the context of getting a good foundational understanding of the problem.
<aside> ℹ️ Summarise your Proposed Solution to the problem → in less than 150 words!!!
You should, succinctly, cover key messages about why your solution is the best, including how technically feasible, financially viable, socially acceptable and environmentally sustainable your solution is. You should summarise the solution itself, and how the solution addresses the needs of your key stakeholders.
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<aside> ℹ️ Summarise the limits of your current knowledge → in less than 150 words!!!
This means specifying any important assumptions or uncertainties underlying your proposed solution. You should include, succinctly, how you have proposed tackling these assumptions or uncertainties through the first stages of implementation of your proposed solution – though much of the detail can be in the Detailed Explanation below.
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<aside> ℹ️ This is where you put any other information you feel is important for those reviewing your Proposed Solution Memo to know!!!
<aside> 💡 The purpose of this Further Explanation section is to demonstrate how your proposed solution effectively tackles the well understood problem that you have focused on.
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<aside> 💡 Judges will each spend a TOTAL of 10 minutes reviewing your Proposed Solution Memo.
That includes watching your video and reading the summary above and reading this Further Explanation!
That means you should plan for this section to have between five (5) and seven (7) minutes work of material to review (depending on how long your video and summary sections are). </aside>
This section can be structured any way you want.
You should also include:
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<aside> ℹ️ Do not forget to include your Bibliography inside this page!
Anything outside this page will not be reviewed; so be sure to include your bibliography in this page. Also ensure you are using in-text citations to cite all your sources so that assessors understand where each fact you are referencing came from.
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<aside> ℹ️ You are welcome to put additional information in an appendix!
We recommend making any appendix a subpage that is located here. You can reference that page at appropriate locations above using the “@” and the name of the page; for example: Example Appendix Page references the page located just below here.
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