Business FAQ

Q: How do you prepare for the Impact Award?

A: The essay and executive summary portions of the submission for Impact is a collaborative effort between all the students and mentors on the business side of the team that is completed before selecting our presenters. 

We create a list of the main points that need to be conveyed in our speech and then bring in our presenters' personal stories to enhance the speech. We work to help the students blend their ideas together to create a comprehensive, individualized speech. Our presenters are then tasked with memorizing and practicing the speech in front of a number of different people across all specialties, in different businesses, then adjustments are made based on feedback and flow. We also run through a lot of questions to our presenters to prep them for the 5 min. Q+A portion of the judges.

We also create a presentation "Props" that correlates with the speech for the students to use and we have our documentation in order to present to the judges along with some other team-specific props. 

Our goal with the video is to follow the outline of the essay to create a visual representation of our presentation. 

For cohesion, we like to keep a main theme throughout our entire presentation, from our essay to our video to the actual presentation. This allows our final project to be polished and clean

Q: How does your Business team collaborate with media?

A: Students and mentors have access to a Google Drive where we sort photos taken by students from each side of the team. Our drive has specific sections for photos and media that our students can upload into

Q: Do you have a business plan?

A: Yes! We keep at least one copy in our pits at all times

Q: What do you use for documentation?

A: Applications like Google Drive and Google Docs allow our documentation to be adaptable and cloud-based for easy access at any time

Q: What applications do you use for your content?

A: We use applications like Canva, InShot, iMovie, DaVinci Resolve, and Blender