General Information
The National Venues:
Organisers should ensure that the venue should be fit for the purpose, with 24-hour access for the team and if possible ‘sleepover’ arrangements. It should have, as a minimum, e-mail capability and Internet access.
Support:
The team should have access to a facilitator at key stages during the 24-hour period.This facilitator could be drawn from the business community, business support services, or academia.Please ensure that the facilitator is there to support and motivate, not instruct or direct.
Viewing the launch and awards:
Each country will be able to view the launch from Sydney and the final awards by logging on to YouTube at a site address which will be disclosed prior to the commencement of the challenge.
Teams
- Up to ten participants constitute a team
- Participants must be attending High School or College
- Participants should be aged 16 – 19 years
- Ideally the team should possess a broad range of complementary skills and knowledge (science and technology, business, marketing and communication)
Time zones
The world will be split into 3 time zones;
- The Americas - Canada and the US
- Asia Pacific - Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Philippines & Singapore
- Europe – Africa - Germany, Poland, Wales and Africa.
Participants will see the 2012 challenge revealed when the GEC coordinator for their country accesses the GEC website and keys in the access code for their time zone. The GEC launch presentation will be repeated in each time zone and will be time locked into a global clock and only be accessible via a unique code at the nominated time in each time zone.
All national teams will compete within a 24 hour timeframe and start at the same nominated time for their time zone. However any team regardless of where they are on the globe may choose to run in the same timeframe as the Americas, Europe – Middle East or Asia/Pacific, but must advise the Australian Host Coordinator at least two weeks prior to the event to ensure that they are issued with the appropriate access code.
