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Innovate Award Submission Sheet Placement & Lack of Contents Page


Spencer Vaughan (Event Partner)
7-Aug-2024

Hello! Hope you are having a great start to the season!

The guide to judging says the following about the Innovate Award

The team must indicate to Judges where this aspect can be found in their Engineering Notebook via the Innovate Award Submission Information Form, placed behind their table of contents.

and the note says the following:

Submissions for the Innovate Award must be done using the Innovate Award Submission Information Form. This should be included directly after the Engineering Notebook's table of contents.

To confirm, if a team does not place their Submission Information form behind the table of contents is the team still eligible for consideration for the Innovate Award? Is this a best practice or a requirement for eligibility?

Furthermore, if a team has no Table of Contents in their notebook, would they still be considered for the award if it is placed at the beginning of their book? Or would they be ineligible due to the lack of a contents page?

Cheers,

Answered by Competition Judging Committee
14-Aug-2024

Hello! Hope you are having a great start to the season!

Thank you! We hope you are having a great start to your season as well!

The next update of the Guide to Judging will change the verbiage to the following:

Submissions for the Innovate Award must be done using the Innovate Award Submission Information Form. This should be included immediately after the cover page of the team’s Engineering Notebook. In the case of physical notebooks, this form can be printed out and placed in the notebook. For digital notebooks, this form can be scanned in and included.

The location of the Innovate Award Submission Form is a requirement. Using a single location for teams to place information, and where judges should look for that information, will help streamline the Innovate Award submission process.