Foundations: Storytelling and Clear Writing

Before you write a single line of an Impact Award submission, you need the writing fundamentals that make judges care. This primer teaches you how to structure a story, write with clarity, and prove your claims with evidence, then connects each skill to the real constraints of the FIRST Impact Award (a 10,000-character essay, 500-character executive-summary answers, and an optional video). Start here, then move on to the department's main lessons.

Foundations: Storytelling and Clear Writing is the prerequisite module of the The Impact Award guide — the ground the 7 numbered modules after it assume you already have, and Understanding the Impact Award follows it. It holds 3 of the guide's lessons.