Participating via the Web
Many countries hold a local competition concurrently with the Global Final, choose the winner and send that entry via the web. Alternatively, the competition may have taken place at a different date, but the country winners must participate in the 24 hour challenge to coincide with the Global final. The Challenge announcement and the result will be communicated via the GEC website hosted by ABW Enterprise Education. Business plans and YouTube presentations will be posted on this site.
Countries which create their own dedicated GEC website must give appropriate recognition to the major global contributors; viz. WIPO, NASA, ABW Enterprise Education, UB The Judge and the GEC Creator & Convener.
Participants:
Should be aged 16 – 19 years
Teams:
Up to ten participants constitute a team
The venue:
Organisers should ensure that the venue should be fit for 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.
For entry to the Global Final:
Specific instructions will be sent out closer to the date of the event to tell you which file format entries must be in and which email address they should be sent to.
However the following must be sent to enable remote entry to the Global final:
- Video file of presentation
- Document file of team business plan
- Picture/video file of team prototype
Judging:
GEC 2012 will use ‘UB The Judge’ software provided and co-ordinated by Len Norman, and each country must provide two judges committed to judging a minimum of 10 teams. The Creativity Award will be judged separately on the video presentation only. Judges from each country must be nominated by May 2012 to enable sufficient time to organise judging and information.
