module 6 of 8
Most Impact Award losses are self-inflicted. This module is a field guide to the specific, recurring failures that sink submissions — vague unmeasured claims, ignoring the 3-year window, robot-centric storytelling, missing or login-locked evidence, blown character limits, an interview that can't 'describe' what the rubric asks — and gives you a concrete debugging workflow for each. Every pitfall comes with a symptom, a diagnosis, and a fix you can apply this week, plus a pre-submission checklist and a dry-run protocol to catch problems before judges do.
Common Mistakes & Troubleshooting is module 6 of 8 in the The Impact Award guide. It picks up where Worked Examples & Mini-Projects left off and hands over to Advanced Techniques & Case Studies. Its 4 lessons are about 111 minutes of the guide's ~14 hours.
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This is the The Impact Award one: 4 lessons, about 111 minutes. The modules below share the name over completely different material.
| no. | module | lessons |
|---|---|---|
| pre | Foundations: Storytelling and Clear Writing | 3 |
| 01 | Understanding the Impact Award | 4 |
| 02 | Building the Written Submission | 4 |
| 03 | The Presentation, Interview, and Video | 3 |
| 04 | Building a Program Worth Recognizing | 3 |
| 05 | Worked Examples & Mini-Projects | 5 |
| 06 | Common Mistakes & Troubleshootingyou are here | 4 |
| 07 | Advanced Techniques & Case Studies | 4 |