Do We Have Another Submission Record?
Well last Wednesday (January 31st, 2007) has been a real busy day for the BranuPrize team as well as the for the BraunPrize Web-Server ;-) Finally the submission deadline for the BraunPrize 2007 has officially ended at 23:59 hrs!
So far we can’t share any actual submission numbers yet since we don’t have them either :-( As most of you might guess organizing and operationally managing a competition of the caliber of the BraunPrize is a quite challenging and complex task. Just to give you an example: Prior to practically ‘counting’ the submissions we first have to select any redundant contributions, filter the dummys as well as erasing any technical log errors before getting an idea about how many students out there actually have submitted their designs and ideas!
However what can be shared so far is that chances are that the BraunPrize 2007 will clearly exceed the level of the 2005 competition which achieved a total of 684 submissions. One factor which might have facilitated this number is that for each iteration more and more participants are making use of the digitally driven online submission feature.
In contrast now for the BraunPrize team the hard work has just started as printing out all the submissions and preprocessing them for the first jury meeting in March 2007. In the course of this non-public event of the BraunPrize competition we’ve planned some nice new communication features which we will share with you during the next couple of weeks.
As noted in the official BraunPrizeBlog announcement one of the ideas behind this blog is to make the competition more transparent for a broader public. Some portraits and interviews about & with the jury members are clearly among them … Stay curious :-)
