Perfect Pitch Competition
The Challenge: Pitch an innovated (business and technical) solution to a problem connected with the ERC strategic vision in a clear, compelling manner in 90 seconds with one slide. Answer the following three questions in 90 seconds:
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What real-life problem your research addresses
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How you solved it in a unique way
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What impact will your reserach have for society and in achieving QESST’s mission
Pitches will be presented to a panel of QESST industry partners.
What’s in it for you?
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$300.00 toward a conference attendance for the top three placers
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Network with industry leaders
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Gain engineering communication skills, an ABET standard
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An award to add to your CV!
Download the Power Point with more Info Here!
Things to know
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Perfect Pitch competition will be held January 23 at 11:00 am, Arizona time
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QESST industry partners will judge the competition
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Practice for the Perfect Pitch will be held via Vidyo conferencing immediately following the All-QESST meeting November 21, and on Monday, January 16 at 11:00 am Arizona time.
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Previous Perfect Pitch winner, Pablo Guimerá Coll: http://fullcircle.asu.edu/students/qesst-scholar-wins-nsf-perfect-pitch-competition/
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NSF participants video 2015: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5f0eVdeclo
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Description of NSF perfect-pitch-guidelines: http://erc-assoc.org/content/perfect-pitch-guidelines and http://erc-assoc.org/programs/pitch
Here are some resources to help you create the perfect pitch
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/01/12/10-tips-for-making-the-perfect-pitch-cnbc/4396281/
http://thepitcher.org/5-tips-on-how-to-prepare-the-perfect-pitch/
http://www.orau.gov/cdcynergy/erc/content/activeinformation/resources/Covello_message_mapping.pdf
http://solveforinteresting.com/building-a-message-map/
http://www.slideshare.net/rustycawley/how-to-create-a-message-map
Reminder that the Perfect Pitch Competition is coming up January 23!