anniversary coordinators’ briefing
TRANSCRIPT
Webinar
September 10, 2012
Noon
Today’s Presenters
• Jill Bonamusa, STV, Corporate Communications
• Debra Trace, STV, Corporate Communications
• Sharon McMurray, The Anniversary Company
• Mike Galle, The Anniversary Company
• Alix Chapie, The Anniversary Company
• Lindsay Krause, The Anniversary Company
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Agenda
• Contest Overview
• Forming and Registering Teams
• Scenario For Developing Your Entry
• The Contest Website and other resources
• Submitting Your Entry
• Key Dates & Contacts
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Introduction
• Welcome all to ABC
• Chance for fun & prizes
• Support Habitat for Humanity
• Demo STV teamwork and drive
• Spirit, creativity, ingenuity
• The Anniversary Company assists
• Now I’ll turn it back to Sharon McMurray…
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Purpose
• Purpose
– Celebrate 100 years of STV designing and building success
– Generate teamwork and employee bonding
– Have some fun!
– Make a major contribution to Habitat for Humanity
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Prizes
• Prizes – 1st Place Team
• $25,000 donation to HFH in team member names
• $300 gift card to each team member
– 2nd Place Team • $12,500 donation to HFH in team
member names
• $200 gift card for each team member
– Honorable Mention Teams (5) • $2,500 donation to HFH in team
member names
• $100 gift card for each team member
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Contest Overview
• Teams: no less than 3, no more than 10 STV employees; no boundaries
• Registration: online at www.stvcontest.com
• Team Goal: design and build an original LEGO™ block creation
• Time Frame: four weeks, starting today • Materials Allowance: at least $500 per
team, maybe more- LEGOs only • Entry submission: via email to Alix • Judging: employees and top
management will chose winners • Prizes: up to $10,000 in gift cards for
winning teams • Donations: $50,000 to HFH, Legos to
needy kids
• Winners Payout: early December
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Questions? • Will answer five
questions right now
• But all will be recorded
• Unanswered will be addressed later today on the website:
www.STVContest.com
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Judging Process & Judges
• Two-stage judging process:
– Stage 1: online employee vote
– Stage 2: top management judges
• Photo sets (and video, if entry is animated) posted on web
• Also, project title, team members, 150 word project pitch, total cost, etc.
• Employees vote as many times as they wish for favorites
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Winners selected from top 14 vote getters by top management judges: • Dominick M. Servedio, P.E., Executive Chairman • Milo E. Riverso, Ph.D., P.E., Chief Executive Officer and President • Linda Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications • David Miles Ziskind, FAIA, Senior Vice President, Chief Architect, Buildings & Facilities
Division
Judging Criteria
• Possible Criteria – Originality/Creativity – 10%
– Audacity/Degree of Difficulty -- 10%
– Execution/Engineering Merit -- 25%
– Functionality – 25%
– Aesthetics – 10%
– Cost effectiveness – 20%
– 2.5% Points Bonus for each weekly
progress report
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Contest Rules Highlights
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1. Register by 9/17 2. LEGO™ products only 3. Minimum of 3 on team 4. Maximum of 10 on team 5. You cannot be on more than one team 6. No boundaries 7. Team Captain, Treasurer and Lead Designer on each team 8. All original designs 9. Materials allowance up to $500 (or more?) 10. Receipts due 10/4 11. Leave your kid’s blocks alone! 12. One entry per team 13. Must email entries to Alix by 11:59 p.m. (EDT) on 10/8 14. Provide photos, project pitch, etc.
Download Contest Rules PDF from website for complete
detail. Study and understand before you launch!
WWW.STVContest.com
Forming Teams
• No more than 10, no less than 3
• Role assignments, TC, T and LD required, other titles as needed
• No boundaries: cross office, cross function, cross state, cross country, even trans-continental teams encouraged
• Offices may have multiple teams
• But only one team to a person
• Recruit multiple skill sets
• Start with naming your team and writing your motto, i.e. The Saskatoon Suspenders, “We never let you down!”
• Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing
• Focus, commitment, talent, and teamwork = winning performance
• Don’t delay, gel today!
• Must register online by 11:59 p.m. (EDT) 9/17
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Questions? • Will answer five
questions right now
• But all will be recorded
• Unanswered will be addressed later today on the website:
www.STVContest.com
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Scenario for Developing Entries
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LEGO™ Touch and Feel
Explore the world of LEGO™
Building
Brainstorm Ideas
Work up a design
Work up a building plan
Procure Materials
Prototype Full Scale Build
Sell it! Win!
Touch & Feel
• Goal: get a feel for the possible • Get the team around a table and
build a kit model together • Take it apart and build
something else with the same parts
• As a team, visit a store that sells LEGO™ or if you are near one, a LEGO™ Center
• Go to a Lego Land and watch builders work
• Buy a tub of random bricks and parts and, as a team, try building something circular, something that lights up or moves, or something that tells a story
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Research & Brainstorming
• Obtain and study some of the hundreds of LEGO™ books
• Together, brainstorm some ideas – just green light – no challenges – list as many as possible in 30 minutes
• Pick two or three of the best, most creative, most challenging
• Work up some rough sketches • Discuss and pick the one that seems
doable and sure to win • Figure out what parts are available
that you might use • Draw a detailed master plan to scale,
write procurement specs, and a master project building plan with dates and times
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Website & Other Resources
• www.STVContest.com – Contest Overview
– Key Dates & Contacts
– Cube Dude Blog
– Webinar PDF
– Links to Contest Facebook Page and Cube Dude Twitter Account
– Online Contest Registration
– Detailed Contest rules
– Prizes Page
– Team Progress Reports
– Downloadable Design Grids
– Design and Build Tips and Tricks
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Ask the Cube Dude!
Website & Other Resources
• www.STVContest.com – Habitat for Humanity
– Recommended Articles, Books, & Links
– How & Where to Buy Legos
– Judging Process & Criteria
– Judges Scorecard
– Online Contest Entry: Procedure & Requirements
– Entry Images & Online voting
– FAQs and Answers
– Lego Dictionary
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Ask the Cube Dude!
Design & Assembly Tips
• Limit your scope
• Build from bottom up
• Let reality be your guide
• Pick a scale
• Build big but think small
• Pick the right bonding patterns
• Sacrifice detail for correct overall impact
• Use LEGO™ design grids for drawings (download from www.apotome.com/grids.html)
• Read Chapter 10 of The (Unofficial) LEGO™ Builder’s Guide
• Develop a system for sorting and storing materials
• Stability trumps aesthetics in this contest
• Brick separators are incredibly useful
• Rebuilds often turn out better than the originals
• Use SNOT a lot (studs not on top)
• Base plates are important
• Test movement with the basic structure, before you add detail
• Try LEGO™ Group’s Digital Designer Building Software to make design decisions and evaluate techniques in simulation
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Questions? • Will answer five
questions right now
• But all will be recorded
• Unanswered will be addressed later today on the website:
www.STVContest.com
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Buying Materials
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LEGO™ blocks and parts may be purchased at numerous retail stores, both chains and independents and hundreds of online sources
Team leaders register on contest website by 9/17
-- Receives confirmation email with team’s record locator Once all materials have been purchased, but
no later than 10/4, leader requests reimbursement
Receipts must be scanned into a pdf file with team name at top of each page, as many as possible per page
Receipts must have store name and amount clearly identified
Team leader returns to contest website, logs on to team record, enters name and address of employee who should receive reimbursement check, and uploads pdf of receipts
Check is in the mail!
Submitting Entries
1. Registration closes, midnight, 9/17
2. Project entry due by midnight, 10/8
3. Attached will be the following: team roster, zip file with 6-7 photos, video clip (if required), 150 word “Project Pitch”
4. One entry per team
5. No virtual entries; photos must be of actual physical structure
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• September 10 – All Employee Building Contest
Webinar
• September 17 – Contest Team Registration Deadline
• October 4 – Materials Receipts Due
• October 8 – Building Contest Entry Deadline
• October 12-19 – Employee Online Voting
• October 23-30 – Final Judging of Online Vote Finalists
• November 19 – December 15 – Winners Receive
Awards
Key Dates
Key Contacts
www.STVContest.com
Fire Up!
• Thanks for all you do for STV! • Thanks for attending this
webinar • Thanks in advance for helping
us make STV’s 100th Anniversary a memorable experience for everyone
• I hope to see many of you in the Anniversary Building Contest website with winning entries!
• Let’s demonstrate that STV can create great structures from anything, even LEGO™ blocks!
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Thank You!
Good Building!