Rules and Parameters:

• Teams must design a plan of action a) in terms of the existing capacity of the organization you choose to represent, and b) with the goal of project implementation within a calendar year, noting that projects should be maintainable, if not scalable, beyond the first year. Make sure during your presentation to detail the organization’s mission, relevance to the question, and available resources. (Note: Business Consulting teams must conform to their answers to their chosen client organization’s capabilities.)
• The case will contain background information, but additional preparatory research is permitted and recommended.
• Teams may not enlist the assistance of anyone on the WMGIC team, judging panel, faculty advisors, friends or from any contact whose ideas are not publicly available (i.e. published online), other than their assigned team mentors.
• Teams have from case release (6:30 pm Friday) to deadline (11:30 am Saturday) to work on their project and create all deliverables.

 
Deliverables:

1. All teams will:
   1. Submit a short project description by 11:59 pm on Friday.
   2. Present a 10 minute max PowerPoint presentation to the judges, including a bibliography and justification for their choice of challenge Saturday afternoon.
   3. Participate in a 5 minute Q&A session with the judging panel.
2. ​Finalists will:
   1. Present a 5 minute pitch in front of a panel of final judges, other teams, and spectators. Runner-ups would present a 3 minute pitch. 
      1. Pitches can/should include the following: who you are and who is your project benefiting, what the problem is, what your solution is, why your solution is unique, how you are going to make a difference. 
      2. Finalist’s 5 minute pitch can be accompanied by a shortened slide deck. 
   2. The overall winner, second, third, and fourth place will be chosen from among the 4 finalists.