The Application process allows students to submit their application in smaller sections and receive coaching each time (4 TIMES) as you build your application. 2019 applicants said the coaching was the best part of the contest, learning about how to think about their innovation, learn how investors would view it, how best to present it, discovering intellectual property rights issues, learning about licensing, funding a pilot, etc...things not normally taught in engineering school. The schedule for the different application parts and coaching for each region is below. For explanation of what each "Part" is, go to Application Process page.

NOTE: Teams can take advantage of up to four coaching reviews of their application summary. Teams are not required to use the coaching and can submit their application summary without coaching up until the Part 5: Final Submission of Complete Summary deadline for their region.

TEAMS CAN MISS A COACHING DEADLINE AND STILL SUBMIT ANYTIME BEFORE THE FINAL PART 5 DEADLINE !!!!

This new format of incrementally building the summary over several months and the benefit of an experienced judge coach (see bio in Student Resources page on website) is the result of great feedback received from dozens of 2019 innovation contest students.