If you submitted an IDEA entry and you haven’t heard from the judges of the contest, today should be it. The Art  and Sustainability Contests won’t have formal interviews- the 2nd round interviews are at the discretion of the judges. They can whittle down the entries to the three or four finalists and then determine a winner without the extra interview. Business & Entrepreneurship and the General Contests are having 2nd round interviews, and those interviews should be concluding this coming Friday.

We keep hearing from all the judges that this year’s entries are far and away the best they’ve seen. Many thanks again to everyone who submitted. We’re going to throw a party (we call it a reception for formality’s sake) for everyone near the end of April (date, time and location TBD) where we recognize all the entries, call out the finalists and announce the winners in each category and then the overall 1st, 2nd and 3rd Prize winners.

Updates on the party will be posted here as well.