Team Resources
This section can serve as one of your main resources in developing a high-quality and meaningful presentation, as it provides important information on SIFE’s policies and guidelines in regards to competitive events and details helpful tips and suggestions on how to take your written and verbal reports to the next level. The sections included are:
Are you ready?
You’ve worked hard all year long and it’s time to showcase your efforts at a SIFE competitive event. Ready or not, the clock is winding down and despite all your obligations, personal and professional, you know this is the final and most vital step to the completion of your SIFE year. One more push and with your determination and hard work, you can reach the finish line as a SIFE team that has followed through on its commitments and experienced, fully, the SIFE Spirit through our competitive events.
Whether this is your team’s first time competing or you consider yourself a veteran, remember that no two SIFE competitive events are the same. Our goal continues to be the development and nurturing of every team to become strong. For you veterans, it’s wise not to count your trophies ahead of time. Just when you think it’s safe, the new kid on the block is here to show you what fierce competition is all about.
Your SIFE competitive experience can be as invaluable as you allow it to be. Remember that no matter how hard you may have worked all year, if you don’t properly demonstrate it through your reportings at the competitive event, then you are doing yourself an injustice.
Although SIFE is not a competition-driven organization, we do want to see you doing well and taking pride in your work. As you stand before the panel of judges at those competitive events, your confidence, passion and pride for what you have accomplished will shine through. That, in itself, is the biggest triumph; therefore, we urge you to work hard and make your competitive experience something YOU can be proud of. After all, your sense of self-achievement is the grandest testament of our success.
For any question you may have about the competition
format, rules, reporting and criteria, you will find the answer in the
SIFE Team Handbook 2008-2009