Top 10 Tips for Writing a Winning Solution
Our Client Services team reviews thousands of Challenge Solutions each year and they asked me to share with you some of the tips they’ve come up with based on their experience. Please feel free to leave a comment for me if you find one of these particularly helpful, or if you have any of your own to share.
Tip #1: You can download the Solution Submission Form and Solver Submission Guideline documents for your use. To access these documents, click on the “Submit a Solution” button located within the Project Room of a Challenge.
Tip #2: Carefully re-read the Challenge description and make sure that you completely understand both the goal of the Challenge, the Technical Requirements, and the required deliverables as stated under the heading “Project Criteria” in the Challenge statement.
Tip #3: As a rule of thumb, the most successful submissions are organized as small articles, like you might see in a newspaper. We recommend starting with a Summary or Introduction that describes the essence of your idea in one short paragraph stating precisely what your submission is all about.