Submission (ARC)

A reading deck and a pitch deck are both in the format of a "slide deck" or "presentation" file format, built with software applications such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, Google Slides, or Canva.

A reading deck is meant to be stand-alone, which means the file can be just sent to someone, and they can figure out what you want to communicate. There is usually more content on each page of a reading deck.

A pitch deck is meant to be presented live. There is usually less content per page, because if there is too much content, the audience is reading rather than listening intently.

You will not be disqualified for using AI as long as it does not infringe copyright. Please properly attribute all sources to avoid issues with copyright.

The page limit of the main whitepaper forces teams to be very clear and concise with their information transmission. However, there are no limits to the length of supplementary Annex(es).

The chapter headings may be anything! Below are the Level 1 Chapter Headings used by previous IDSOL Whitepapers. As you can see, they are similar, but they fit the project's nature (which is inherently different), telling the story they want to tell in the way they want it to be told.

3 Chapters

1. Background

2. Solution

3. Next Steps

4 Chapters

1. Introduction

2. Related Work

3. Proposed Solution

4. Conclusion

5 Chapters

1. Problem Space

2. States-of-the-Art

3. Solution Overview

4. Solution Design

5. Challenges

6 Chapters

1. Orientation

2. Situation

3. Mission

4. Execution

5. Administration

6. Coordination

7 Chapters

1. Problem Statement

2. Vision

3. Use Case and Existing Solutions

4. Risks and Challenges

5. Architecture and Infrastructure

6. Distribution and Continuation

8 Chapters

1. Introduction

2. Problem Statement

3. Competitive Overview

4. Solution Overview

5. Solution Design

6. Impact, Governance, Scalability

7. Challenges and Future Plans

8. Conclusions

9 Chapters

1. Introduction

2. Problem Statement

3. Solution Architecture

4. Operations

5. Value Proposition

6. Features, Benefits, Impact

7. Competitive Analysis

8. Success Factors and Mitigated Risks

9. Conclusion

VERY. You will be penalized or even disqualified for the wrong format. The region under the thick, dark grey strip is not regulated, but everything including and above that thick, dark grey strip ("regulated region") may not be modified or interfered with.

Here is a checklist of things in the regulated region:

• Flag: to be the flag of the country or territory that you represent. To be sure you are within regulation, find your country or territory in the template.

• Project ID: the project will be assigned a project ID if and only if your project has been invited to the finals. Make sure it is the correct one.

• Project Name: a valid name as per the validity parameters; it can be in ALL CAPS or in Title Case.

• Project Tagline: a short description of the project in the thick, dark grey strip. Do not change the font. Do not change the size. 

• Project Team (Lead and Members): the names of the entire team, with the team lead or team captain labelled with a (C). This is the only part of the regulated region where some variance is tolerated. See below.

• Olympiad Logo: do not modify the position, size, colour, etc.

Project Team presentation:
Variation is allowed as long as the final result fits between the Project Name and the Olympiad Logo.

• Form 1: team member name(s) only.

• Form 2: team member name(s) with attribution, i.e. academic institution; may or may not include department (post-secondary) or grade level (Junior Olympians).

• Form 3: supervisor name(s) with attribution —  unless there is room for the attribution, do not include the name of the supervisor(s).

The font in the regulated region is Lexend Extra Light or Lexend with Font Weight 200.