Finding Models from Past Years

Team Challenge

When you are about to buy something online, what do you look at? A picture? A list of features? Cost? How about a short paragraph that tells you how it works or what it can do for you? This is part of what you want to make for your business plan.

But you have to go further than marketing materials, remembering that your reader is a potential investor to help establish your business. The Global Challenge reader is also a judge who is looking for outstanding, innovative, promising ideas! Your current challenge is to begin to create ideas, concepts and maybe even materials for your solution.

Resources

This year, whenever your team is ready, fill out a patent registration form in the Patent Office (one of the Team Tools) to protect your key ideas. Each year, the office also posts previous year's winners. See the 2006 Winners and 2007 Winners of the Global Challenge Award college scholarships.

Process

BASIC LEVEL Read the product description from one or two projects from past years. Find them online in the Patent Office. Go "shopping" for a product somewhat like the one you are envisioning. See how others describe their products and offerings. Develop answers to the following questions:

What makes a product description section highly effective and less effective?
How could past teams have done a better job?

GRAB YOUR POINTS!

1. Log into eFolio. Place your work into your team's "GBP & TIP Challenges" folder. Title your entry with [Your Name]-[Challenge title]-[Process Level] (e.g. David Gibson-Finding Models from Past Years-BASIC] so that we can credit you for your work!

2. Evaluate the Challenge.

GOING BEYOND Hold a team discussion about the ideas you like best.

Using the appropriate GBP or TIP Rubric, how would have scored the ones you like the best?
What ideas do you have for using the appropriate Rubric to build a great product decription section?

Be sure to document who on your team is fulfilling these kinds of roles

Task Leader, (Research Team Leader, Team Leader)
Documentation (writing, editing, putting things together, linking to standards)
Resources (finds and gets stuff)
Evaluation and team reflection role (process monitor role)

GRAB YOUR POINTS!

2. Evaluate the Challenge.

GOING CRAZY Surprise us. Anything goes here. Add a graphic, a movie, a poem, something crazy - ANYTHING and captures what you have learned about past year's winners and tells what your team is going to do to borrow the best ideas from past examples and go way beyond (i.e. "crazy" ) with your own innovations!

GRAB YOUR POINTS!

2. Evaluate the Challenge.