Additional Factors and Considerations
Intellectual property rights for any work that may be patentable or copy written will be assigned to the students and their customers to be dealt with by local precedent and procedure. [To address IRS issues with “Colors of money”, and avoid as many legal entanglements as possible.]
There is no single “right answer” and the playing field is level
- A wide range of customers and problems are possible
- A “small team” that produces good results working an a small but significant problem has as much chance of winning as does a large team working on something grand
This proposed competition is a contest within a contest within a contest
- Students must find their own (non-Boeing) customers and define with them the problems to be solved
- The students must then design, build and test a “product”
- The students must also demonstrate an understanding of the entire “Process” (including the business and project management aspects)