Challenge Summary
Welcome to the TCO13's Poster Design Contest to Help Girls into STEM Mini-site Storyboard Contest! The goal of this mini-site is to entice other designers (TC/Studio member or not), to design a poster about encouraging the youth of today to tap into an unknown talent they may possess and pursue that talent to grow and prosper to develop the next awesome technology of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). Designers then submit their "poster design" in this mini-site. This mini-site will be hosted inside the TCO13 site under Win TCO Trips page.
Your task is to create the most awesome mini-site that rocks! You will design about five (5) screens ( 5 screens that are combined into 1 long page, the details will be discussed in the Requirement section ). This mini-site will be marketed and promoted to other designers or to anyone 18 years old or older ( does not have to be a TC or Studio member ) in the hope that they will get interested in participating in Studio. Make your design appealing to other designer, think about what would attract you to compete in this contest.
Round 1
1) Initial submission design with all the features mentioned in the Requirement section.
2) Any note for the client about your submission
3) Number your submission (01, 02, 03, etc...) for easy client's review
Round 2
1) Final submission design with all the features mentioned in the Requirement section.
2) Any note for the client about your submission
3) Number your submission (01, 02, 03, etc...) for easy client's review
Primary Goals
The primary goal of this contest is to design a mini-site that will encourage designers, regardless if TC/Studio member or not, to participate and submit in "Poster Design Contest to Help Girls into STEM". Make your design appealing to other designer, think about what would attract you to compete in this contest.
Requirements
Design the mini-site with the following requirements:
- Page Size
- this page will reside inside the Win TCO Trips page, see the provided placeholder.png's red box for more details
- the existing content area where your design will be placed is fluid/elastic, you should take that in consideration and your design should comfortably fit in with the sizes mentioned below
- your minimum design width should be 688px and maximum of 1300px
- there's no limit with height requirement
- Navigation
- the inspiration on how the mini-site navigation works is hackforchange.org
- the mini-site navigation items are: Overview | The Problem | Contest Details | Submit | FAQs
- when user click on any item, it will scroll down to a particular section of the page instead of making page reload
- when the page scrolls down, the mini-site navigation bar will then get docked at the top of the content area ( the red box from the provided placeholder.png )
- Content
The following are the content of the mini-site:-
Overview:
- the content for this section is at the provided "PD Home.docx"
- at the very top will be a large banner with title "Poster Design Contest to Help Girls into STEM $10,000 in prizes!"
- beneath the large banner will be a video embed
- there will be no logo for this competition
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The Problem:
- include the title of this section
- this section will have a paragraph of content at the top, use dummy text for now
- then beneath the paragraph will be an embedded infographic coming from http://www.ncwit.org/infographic/3435
- there's an embed coded from that page, you can actually use screenshot for this embedded infographic section
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Contest Details:
- include the title of this section
- this will the section about the contest specification
- the content for this section is from the provided "Poster Contest Spec.docx"
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Submit:
- include the title of this section
- this is the section for submitting design
- the content and required fields are in the provided "Submit for the Poster Design Contest.doc"
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FAQs:
- include the title of this section
- use dummy text for the content in a Q/A format
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Branding Guidelines
Think of mini-site that is very much appealing to other designers
Target Audience
- TopCoder and Studio members
- Potential TopCoder and Studio Member
Judging Criteria
- Graphics appeal
- Awesomeness
What to Submit
Preview JPG/PNG Image File
Please create your preview image as one (1) 1024x1024px JPG or PNG file in RGB color mode at 72dpi and place a screenshot of your submission within it, you may use the provided placeholder.png and place a screenshot of your design in the content area.
Submission ZIP File
All requested contest requirements/screens as JPG or PNG files.
Source ZIP File
All fully editable original source files of the submitted design as required by the contest under "Source Files" in the side bar.
Final Fixes
As part of the final fixes phase you may be asked to complete one round of minor changes to ensure your submission meets the stated requirements of this contest. See more information about Final Fixes.
Please read the challenge specification carefully and watch the forums for any questions or feedback concerning this challenge. It is important that you monitor any updates provided by the client or Studio Admins in the forums. Please post any questions you might have for the client in the forums.