Showcase Logistics

<div class="label label-info">Organizational notes meant for Pito in organizing various showcase events</div>

Invitations

• Invite judges with 3 weeks notice
• 4 or 5 judges no more or less

Individual Presentations

• Keep strict time limits
  • 5 minutes: 1st warning
  • 1 minute: 2nd warning
  • 1 minute: hard cut off
  • 3 minutes: q and a
• Make sure time keeper is comfortable being forceful
• Make sure overall event is 2 hours or less
• Otherwise by the end the audience is either very bored or leaving

Judging Process

• Give judges 15 minutes to discuss in a separate room
• Ask judges to give individual feedback for each project
• They can decide who speaks
• One idea, give the judges a stack of 3x5 cards, one for each project
• Randomly give a card to a judge (allow them to trade)