Submitting your Pandemics project
Submit your project on the course hub. Put the final touches on your project, and submit it to us for judging! We recommend you spend the majority of your efforts after session 11 on creating the final deliverable and communicating what you've done. You should produce some public product as a result of your project such as:
- a website (e.g. on Notion, Squarespace or GitHub Pages)
- a video (e.g. on YouTube)
- a public blog post (e.g. on Substack or LinkedIn Articles)
- some combination of the above
- something else entirely
As well as the project itself, we ask that you submit a short video demonstration (2-5 mins) explaining the key takeaways from your project[1]. We recommend recording yourself using Loom. You could share your screen with some slides, or demonstrating a tool you've built.
Attend the project closing event. We’ll announce the winners of the project competition, award prizes, and close out the course. You can sign up for the event on the course hub.
Tips on creating an excellent final product
Review our evaluation criteria. Think about how you can produce an output that we'll score highly: we think in general this will result in a strong project output.
Communicate well. Your output should be easy to understand. If in doubt, aim for a smart high-schooler with some technical background. You should:
- use plain English (this doesn't mean you need to dumb down your project)
- define key terms, or link to good definitions of them
- structure writing with headers, topic sentences and lists
Explain what you found out, and how this contributes to pandemic preparedness. A common mistake is to write about the work you put in, rather than what you discovered out of it. Also, negative results (where you discovered something didn’t work) are useful research!
Ask for feedback. You can reach out to cohort members, your facilitator, or people you met at course networking events. A great tactic is to ask them to explain what they think your project is after reading - this often highlights where your product isn't as clear as you thought it might be.
Prizes for exceptional projects
As a reminder, we are offering prizes for standout projects across a range of categories. You can find more details here.
Footnotes
We have found that the process of recording these short videos can:
- Help you clarify the main points of your submission
- Be useful practice for discussing your project in an interview setting
- Be an engaging way to share your project online