I should know better. I get fascinated by a problem, plan it in my head, spend too much time on costing things, over-simplify for clarity’s sake, then run out of time explaining why it is significant and novel. Wrong order, wrong emphasis.

Why not:

1. Read the marking rubrics.
2. Start with an immediate problem you can provide evidence has not yet been addressed and reasons why the solution is so important.
3. Write a few lines about the amazing solution even though you have not created/proved/invented it yet.
4. Then explain (again) why it is so hard to discover/make/prove/provide but you’ve got this.
5. Then try to work out steps (backwards, you can re-sort order in MS Excel for example, or Word if you want the reordering done via tables) how to make the impossible possible.
6. Change the “I Made This Amazing Thing” to “How I will Make This Amazing Thing”.
7. Change the title from what it is (because people no doubt will be confused by your oh so clever title because they have not and may not read line 32) to X Solves Y for Z.
8. Tick off against the marking rubrics.