Richard: “A project that really stands out is one that was clearly considering the judging criteria. I say this because I have come across quite a few submissions where it’s almost as if they had an idea that was independent of the actual contest and they're shoehorning it to fit. We look for submissions where they're very clearly trying to balance across all the judging criteria—sometimes people pick only one of the judging criteria but miss everything else.”
Karen: “I think the more open you kazakhstan telegram screening can be with how you created your project, the better. Within the videos, I saw a couple in which they would demo their code—which I liked—or they would go through doing some kind of voiceover while they showed the different components of the project, which I really liked. Be as thorough as you can, especially when they're technical projects. With highly technical judges, they’re going to want to see all that stuff.”
Kelvin: “We always offer a template to start with, and the projects that stand out the most are the ones that depart the most from that template. We get a lot of submissions that keep the overall theme or overall logic of the template, and then there will be other projects where somebody took the idea and ran with it in a completely different direction.
Adding elements of sound and storytelling makes it really fun to play for us. It's that extra effort that totally deserves to be recognized.”