A "pitch deck" is a term used to describe a powerpoint or slide presentation used in a pitch meeting. Innovators and entrepreneurs want to convince their audience to buy or support their idea, and try to do so by demonstrating the people's needs, the weaknesses of existing alternatives, and the strengths of the proposed solutions. An important element of the pitch deck is the "magic slide," a term to describe the moment when your audience gets to experience your solution. How will you create your "magic slide" or "magic moment" for your audience?
May 30, 2020 •This resource provides a template with which to write an executive summary for your product and plan for development. The executive summary acts as a high-level or general overview of your product and writing the summary allows you to organize your thoughts in a coherent manner. Often, it makes sense to write an executive summary after you have performed your research and developed your solution, but before you create your presentation or prototype.
May 26, 2020 •This rubric acts as a scorecard, for teams that opt into the Prototype Challenge. The scorecard helps them understand the basis upon which their innovation is considered and thus the standards to achieve.
May 25, 2020 •Building off of their experience at the conference, participants can choose to continue on to the $10,000 Innovation Challenge. In this phase, student participants pair up to develop an innovation in one of the five challenge categories to help Maine realize its 2030 vision.
In the spirit of the "Materialize" phase of design-thinking, team entries will be evaluated on how well they have researched, explored, and applied their conference skills to create a prototype of their product. The prototype can be in the form of an executive summary, slide deck, demo of the product, all three forms, or some other representation of the innovation! A winner will be selected in each of the five challenge categories and each student on the team receives a $1,000 scholarship award from UMaine.
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May 28, 2020 •