How to present your project entry
You've put a lot of time, effort and creativity into your project. Now it's time to share it with our judges.
Whether you've investigated a question, solved a problem or developed a new idea, you can choose how to share your work with our judges. Submit either a written report, a video report, or a combination of both, to tell the story of your project.
You can also upload supporting materials, including photos, diagrams, graphs and tables to help showcase your project journey and bring your ideas to life.
There's no best format to choose. The most important thing is that your entry clearly tells the story of your project and helps the judges understand what you did, what you learned and what you achieved.
Whatever way you decide to present your work, remember to use our assessment criteria to help structure your entry, and make sure you've included the information judges need to review your project.
Please find below guidance on how to create your report, including technical advice for video entries.
Writing your project report
A written report is a great way to tell the story of your project in your own words. It gives you the opportunity to explain your ideas, decisions, investigations and discoveries clearly and at your own pace.
When submitting a written report, you will need to provide responses to each of the individual assessment criterion in our entry form.
-
Each criterion will have a maximum word count, which you can view below:
project overview: 150 words max
project concept: 300 words max
project process: 600 words max
research, planning and organisation: 300 words max
experimentation and refinement: 300 words max
project outcomes: 400 words max
project ethics: 200 words max
next steps and reflections: 350 words max
Remember, this is a maximum word count; you do not need to use all the available words. Judges are interested in the quality of the information you provide, not how many words you write. Focus on sharing the most important parts of your project journey and what you've learned along the way.
Filming your project report
A video report is a great opportunity to bring your project to life and talk directly to the judges about your work. You can explain your ideas, demonstrate your project, show models or experiments, and share what you discovered during your journey.
Don't worry about having professional equipment or advanced editing skills. The most important thing is that judges can clearly see and hear your presentation and understand your brilliant work.
-
In your video, you should start by saying hello and introducing yourself or your team to the judges. Using the assessment criteria as your guide, you should then take the judges through your project report.
You can also highlight any elements of your project that you’d like the judges to see, such as demonstrations or models.
If you choose to film any printed or written materials, make sure the camera remains in focus so judges can clearly see and read it. You can also upload any diagrams, graphs and other images you'd like the judges to review. You can do this on your project entry form under the tab 'Supporting materials'.
If you choose to film a PowerPoint presentation, make sure your slides are concise. They shouldn't feature too much content.
-
Your video should be no longer than 6 minutes. Judges won't review videos past the 6-minute mark so you'll need to be concise and make sure to cover the relevant information within this time.
You do not need to use all the available time. The time limit is there to give you enough space to share your project journey and provide relevant information for judges to consider. Judges are interested in the quality and relevance of the information you provide, not the length of your video. If you can explain your ideas, decisions and learning clearly in less time, that's absolutely fine!
-
You can submit the following types of videos:
In front of camera: students talk directly to the camera. They could be running through a poster or PowerPoint slides or demonstrating their experiment or products
PowerPoint recording: students record a PowerPoint presentation with voiceover
-
Please make sure your film is in the following format:
film in landscape mode and at 1920 x 1080 resolution if possible
export your video as an .mp4 file
maximum file size is 300MB
-
It's really important to make sure our judges can hear you clearly throughout your video. Try to make sure there are no background noises, and that you're not too close or too far away from the microphone.
Your instinct might be to talk as quickly as possible about as much as possible as soon as you start recording. This might make it harder for our judges to follow your presentation. Take a deep breath and speak clearly and slowly so you get all your important points across.
-
Editing software
If you’re working as a team but are unable to come together to film your presentation, you can still all be part of the video. You can bring together different film clips and merge them into one longer video.
If you’re creating a video on a PC, videos can be edited in the built in Windows Photos app. This app has options for structuring video clips on a timeline, with options for adding voiceover, music and text. On a Mac and iPhone, iMovie is included for free and has the same capability.
Adobe Premiere Rush can also be downloaded for free on a PC or Mac. It is also available on an iOS and Android phone. It's also a great piece of software for editing video. The free version has all the features of the paid software but only allows 3 exports.
Recording a voiceover for your PowerPoint presentation
open your PowerPoint presentation and head to the 'Slide Show' tab
in the 'Set Up' group, select 'Record Slide Show'
a drop-down menu will appear
choose to start the narration from the beginning or from the current slide
start recording!
Sharing your supporting materials
Supporting materials are a great way to help judges visualise your project and better understand your work.
Alongside your written or video report, you can upload photos, drawings, graphs, tables, and other materials that help tell the story of your project. These can be especially useful for showcasing your research, experiments, prototypes, designs and results.
Think about what would help someone who hasn't seen your project before understand what you did, how you did it and what you discovered.
You may provide up to 6 supporting materials for judges to review alongside your project entry. These should be in the following formats: PDF, PPT, JPEG.
Where possible please clearly label each supporting material so judges know what you are trying to show them, and how this relates to your project entry.
Sign up to our newsletter
Join our mailing list to get regular updates and stay in the know. You'll be the first to find out when we drop new resources, open funding applications or open registrations. We won't spam you and you can unsubscribe at any time.
