Only a week and a half until proposals are due! Here are a few last minute tips for you.
1. Make sure you reference work, projects or studies similar to yours. Show the judges you have done your research on your topic, and acknowledge the relevant work that has been done to date.
2. Run your proposal past a trusted professor, advisor or expert from the community for some constructive feedback. As program manager, I am happy to answer specific questions about your proposals, but it will be to your benefit to pass off the proposal to a mentor of sorts for a "pre-review".
3. Keep your proposals to the 20 page limit (plus budget)! The guidelines for length of sub-sections is flexible and only a suggested guideline, but the 20 page limit is firm.
4. While the website states that the deadline is 5pm on March 25, I have announced at workshops and meetings that we will accept submissions that reach my inbox (sageCLC@gmail.com) by 11:59 p.m. on March 25. We recognize that a lot of work can be done in the final hours before a deadline, so hopefully this cushion will help some of you out.
We look forward to receiving your proposals and reading all about your innovative ideas! Best of luck to you all.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Less than one month until submission deadline!
Less than one month until proposals are due. YOU STILL HAVE TIME!!
Come to our final informational session on
Monday, March 7, 4:30-5:30
Rm. 175 Science Hall
Ask your questions.
Find your team.
You can be part of the solution.
What's your idea?
Thursday, February 10, 2011
From Competition to Career: a CLC event on Feb. 15, 2011
How innovation competitions can benefit your career development - an event hosted by Climate Leadership Challenge
We're excited to invite you to our upcoming event From Competition to Career on Tuesday, February 15 from 4:30-5:30 p.m. Join us at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Town Center for a CLC-sponsored informational session featuring a panel of experts speaking on how innovation competitions look appealing to prospective employers and how they can even prepare you to start your own business or nonprofit organization.
The panel will feature John Klatt, Director of Advising and Career Services for UW-Madison's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; Allen Dines, Assistant Director of New Ventures and Private Equity at the UW-Madison Office of Corporate Relations, and Chris Meyer, founder of the nonprofit community workspace Sector67. The panelists will speak on topics including how to turn your competition experience into more than a one-liner on your resume, why employers look favorably on competition experiences, and how the experience of participating in a student innovation competition can help prepare you for starting your own business or nonprofit.
Come for an hour of networking and information. Coffee and cookies provided. Please RSVP to sageCLC@gmail.com so we can get an idea of how many will attend. Hope to see you there!
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Check out the new CLC video flyer for the basics of the CLC and what we're looking for in a proposal!
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