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Re: looking for help on chairman award

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Originally Posted by worldbringer
Those'll be helpful to us too.

As a rookie team we've never done this before (we're entering a chairman's submission for the rookie all-star award) but one of the first things I thought when reading other teams' past entries (not to say that any of them were boring) is that judges are going to be reading a LOT of these. It's going to be really important to make our essay as interesting as possible so that we keep the reader's attention and get our point across to the reader.
Up to 10,000 characters of text might be "boring", but a good way to make yourself unforgettable is to make colorful presentation materials available for the judges to see when they walk around. (I'm not sure if rookies do interviews for C.A.) Put together picture collages, newspaper collages (if you have any news coverage yet), and/or make a < 10page bound presentation that sums up, highlights, bullet points all the interesting things you wrote about in the text, even stuff that you didn't put in the text. Make things that show your team off that you can give to the judges to keep, and to review later. This will help them remember who you are and perhaps make you stand out from others.

Good luck!
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