Guide · Day 5

Pitch run of show

Strong work dies in messy pitches. Rehearse this outline so the panel can follow you.

~3 minutes

Suggested beat sheet

0:00 to 0:20

Intro · who you are

Tell the panel who everyone is on the team (names, briefly). Then say why you chose this topic: what made it matter to you.

0:20 to 0:45

Domain + learning goal + charter

Who the companion is for, what skill it builds, why Socratic (not answer bot), and the one behaviour it must never do.

0:45 to 1:30

Live (or recorded) behaviour

Show one learner question. Show a hint + question response. Contrast briefly with what a dump would have done, and name the framework it demonstrates (e.g. Framework 3, scaffolding).

1:30 to 2:15

Evidence + iteration · the scorecard

Open your scorecard: overall band, two rates with their denominators, the hard gates. Then one full loop, probe, diagnosis, instruction change, re-probe, with before/after numbers, naming the research behind the fix.

2:15 to 2:45

Limits + next

One honest dataset or behaviour limit, mapped to its framework. One thing you’d test with more time.

2:45 to 3:00

Close on the card

Point at your Project Card, every claim you made lives there with its evidence. Stop cleanly: leave room for questions.

Every beat is built to score against the published judging rubric: the demo covers framework reading, the scorecard beat covers evidence, iteration, and research articulation, and the limits beat shows you can read your own weaknesses against the frameworks.

Practice timer
3:00

Card ready?

If section 04 is empty, run probes before you rehearse polish. When mentors say go: submit.