April
21:
Judging and Awards Ceremony
On April 21st,
2006 starting at 6pm, applications selected from the
preliminary round will have the opportunity to present
their ideas in the Judging and Awards Ceremony at
the Ulrich Museum of Art in a trade-show
format. At that time, about one dozen leaders of
engineering, art and business will give applicants
valuable feedback on feasibility, marketability, and
artistic merit.
Starting at 7:30, we will tally the scores of the
judges and select three winners. Prizes will be awarded as
follows:
• 1st prize:
$1,000 for each discipline represented on the team (up to
$4,000)
• 2nd prize:
$500 for each discipline represented on the team (up to
$2,000)
• 3rd prize:
$250 for each discipline represented on the team (up to
$1,000)
•
By
April 30th, the BETA competition committee
will select one
of the 3 winning ideas for further
development, including prototyping
and development of a complete business
proposal.
For the Judging and Awards Ceremony, each team will each be
provided with a booth and are encouraged to develop and use
any materials at the presentation. Materials could
include posters, cardboard prototypes, or any
other materials which will facilitate talking points and
discussion.
The trade-show
format means
that applicants will each man their booths as judges browse
from booth to booth, interacting with applicants, learning
about the ideas, and providing feedback.
For the purposes of awarding prizes for the
competition, a
discipline is defined as a department
within the university. For example if three students, one
majoring in Electrical Engineering, one majoring
in Anthropology, and one majoring at the
School of Art and Design win 1st place as a team, the
team will be awarded $3,000 as each student will win
$1,000 for the discipline he or she represents. If instead
two of the three students are majoring in Electrical
Engineering, the team will be awarded $2,000, and the two
students majoring in Electrical Engineering will
split the $1,000 prize awarded to their discipline.
As participants
wish to protect the ideas presented, this will not be a
public event. All judges will participate with the
understanding that the ideas they will be seeing are the
property of the students who are presenting
them.