GUIDELINES
Here is the competition prompt:
Challenge
Design the most innovative, impactful, interdisciplinary music project you can imagine with $10,000.
Your solution can take many forms—an entrepreneurial venture, a community initiative, a new technology, a live event, you name it.​ Because this challenge requires interdisciplinarity, think of it as MUSIC PLUS: what other discipline(s) might be combined with music in surprisingly powerful ways?
These elements MUST play a role:
Constraints
$10,000
Every team works with the same $10,000 budget—not a dollar more.
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The challenge is to design the most innovative, impactful project possible within this limit.
If you are a competition winner, no additional outside funds may be added when facilitating the project.​
MUSIC RELATED
Music must be at the heart of your idea.
How you interpret that is flexible. It could involve education, performance, technology, products, or other creative applications.
What matters is that music clearly plays a central role in the project.
NON-MUSIC PARTNER
Each project must include at least one partner from outside the music field.
This could be a museum, health provider, nonprofit, business, university discipline, community organization, etc.
Partners may contribute expertise and collaboration, but not extra funding.
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The most SUCCESSFUL proposals will:
Criteria
SHOWCASE INNOVATION
We want to see fresh, original ideas that stand out.
Surprise us with your creativity and vision, something we haven’t experienced before.
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The best proposals clearly demonstrate a “WOW” factor.
MAXIMIZE IMPACT
Your project should matter in a meaningful way.
Show how it addresses an important problem or opportunity and makes a difference to its audience.
The strongest proposals demonstrate lasting value.
PROVE FEASIBILITY
Ambition is important, and so is follow-through.
Convince us your team has the skills, plan, and commitment to make the project succeed.
Judges want to believe it will be delivered as promised if you win.