[ebarker]

For years we ( the team mentors ) have always pretty much vanished ( or stepped off some distance) when the blue shirts show up. I have plenty of pictures (taken from a distance) of judges and students talking.

Therefore I do not have any 1st hand experience listening to that discussion.

The original posted question is not only for our team but all teams. Lets say at school one day Randy, Paula, and Simon setup and quizzed the team. What would they ask, what are they looking for ?

How to train R, P, & S to do the interviews is the base question.

The second part of the answer is obviously the elevator pitch. Longer than 30 seconds, maybe closer to 90 seconds but a fast 'chairman's lite' type of type that stokes judges inquiries and move the conversation in a direction you might like to see it go.