ProcessMaker has partnered with the Miller Center to offer a new fast-paced, team-based competition that provides students with an opportunity to apply entrepreneurial thinking to a real-world problem at W&M. Internship opportunities, prize money, and recognition are on the line!
🥇 First Place: $1,500
🥈 Runner-up: $750
ProcessMaker will also be selecting one of the concepts to pursue following the competition. All students who participate will be eligible for internship positions that will focus on making the selected project come to life.
When:
10/7/21 @ 12:00 PM
Where:
Option 1:
Entrepreneurship Hub – food provided! 🍕
Option 2:
Zoom 💻
What:
✨ Event overview ✨
✨ Challenge introduction ✨
✨ ProcessMaker demo ✨
✨ Application goes live ✨
✨ Q&A ✨
When:
10/22/21 @ 3:00 – 5:00 PM
Where:
Option 1:
Entrepreneurship Hub – food provided! 🍕
Option 2:
Zoom 💻
What:
✨ Team meetings w/ ProcessMaker advisors & W&M partners ✨
✨ Draft process map review & feedback ✨
✨ Direction-setting for the final build phase of competition ✨
When:
11/5/21 @ 5:00 PM – 11/7/21 @ 12:00 PM
Where:
Entrepreneurship Hub @ Tribe Square
Food 🍔 & fuel ☕ provided all weekend!
What:
✨ 36-hour sprint to develop a working prototype and solution presentation ✨
✨ ProcessMaker & W&M advisors office hours ✨
✨ Solution demo & presentations ✨
✨ Feedback & awards ✨
Sometimes a W&M employee needs to take a short-term disability leave. The current HR business process used to enable disability payments is highly regulated in order to be compliant with state guidelines. The process is also quite cumbersome with many manual steps and requires 8-24 hrs per week of manual tasks and compliance review. The process also has a stringent timeline, which if missed, causes payroll delays and associated hardship. The Slingshot challenge is to use ProcessMaker’s capabilities to address this problem through business process automation.
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In this webinar where we will update you on the latest upgrades, features, and functionality that have been added to the ProcessMaker platform.
The foundation of your final deliverable package is a working prototype of a solution to the Slingshot challenge. A sandbox environment will be provided to test your solution with data that simulates the actual HR scenario. Your prototype will be assessed according the following criteria:
Having a product is never the endpoint. You need to be able to communicate your solution to key stakeholders. On the final day of Slingshot, your team will deliver a presentation up to 10-minutes that covers:
| Criteria | Uh-oh | Good | Great |
|---|---|---|---|
| Efficacy | Fails on the sample data set | The solution mostly works, but not entirely | Works consistently |
| Elegance | User experience is marginal | The user experience is sufficient but could be stronger | Delightful user experience |
| Efficiency | Questionable logic and extra unnecessary steps | Most aspects of the solution are efficiently designed but with room for improvement that affects functionality | Streamlined approach |
| Presentation | Unconvincing and hard to follow | Good presentation that could be even stronger with more detail and/or clearer delivery | Compelling and well-articulated |
Though we will accept applications from anyone interested in the challenge, the challenge stipulates that only the top five teams will participate. Take some time when you apply – it will pay off in the long run.
Teams can be from 3-5 members. However, the better question is how diverse should they be? The answer is: as diverse as possible. We will be selecting the top five team applications with preference given to teams with greater diversity (major, gender, class).
No problem – just mark down your availability on the form! We will not consider this question when determining your acceptance.
There is a decent chance that you may not have any experience with this industry. Fortunately, ProcessMaker and W&M IT will be providing mentors for every team. They will help you in all stages of the project, so your team can put its best foot forward.
Yes! All contestants will be considered.
While ProcessMaker may choose to incorporate aspects of any of the Slingshot ideas in future internal initiatives, no team or individual is precluded from further pursuit of their concept after the end of the competition.
