Video During Presentation?

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Originally Posted by Karibou

All teams are required to submit the essay, and that essay was submitted online. This is my first year working on the CA, but to my knowledge, the judges have read the essay beforehand, so it doesn't need to be re-read during the presentation. I believe that there's a 5 minute limit for the Q&A and a 5 minute limit for the presentation, so showing a video would eat up the presentation time, not the Q&A time. (however, I could be interpreting the PDF incorrectly: again, it's my first year working with the award)

We'll probably be showing the video with our presentation. Because it's required this year, we would like to see some payoff for the work and effort that we put into making it, so that it wasn't done just to fulfill a requirement.

That's correct! The judges often times use your submitted essay to develop their questions. But I think that if they are going to be seeing the video, it might help to reinforce what is presented in the video with, as David said, some animation and interaction from the students themselves!

It also depends on what you are showing in your video v. what you will be presenting. We were originally going to have the video focus on our team and how we've overcome changes, and then our presentation focus on the impact, but we decided to give our video another twist so that it will be able to stand on its own.

But I have heard that although the video is required, it is not "judged;" I am not exactly sure what this means...does it mean that they will not view it unless you win and they have to show it? or that the content of the view does not influence their decision in choosing a winning team?