Participants in past competitions created this slide show to help teams prepare for the event.

Here are some of the key points from the show.

• Read the guidelines for preparing a submission.

• Practice working together on a case. You might use one from past world competitions or a national competition. Have the practice presentation critiqued by your coach or another experienced evaluator.

• Decide in advance the software that will be used for preparing your submission. Agree on the fonts, colours and layout. Design a logo for the team to give your presentation a unique look.

• Some teams have found it useful to decide in advance which members will lead the work on various aspects of the submission.

• Establish a tentative schedule for competition day. For example, consider the approximate amount of time you will spend on reading the case, conducting research, preparing your submission, and checking it before uploading.

• Above all, respect each other. Listen to each other. Appreciate each other. Enjoy working together as a team.

Advice from WECC Advisors and Organizers

• There is no formal expectation for references in a WECC submission but if you want to use them, feel free to use any type: statistical report, a video or blog, a program evaluation report, a grey literature article, newspaper article, journal paper et cetera.

• A useful reference is one that the reader can access directly through a link.

• Read the “Tasks” section in the case document very carefully and respond to each task. You cannot score points for tasks that you have not addressed.

• Remember that the case competition is not an exam, it is an opportunity to apply evaluative thinking to a real world situation. Your challenge is to clearly explain how you would deal with the situation. Long, scholarly descriptions of methodologies are not expected.