The ICE Communications Competition is open to graduate and student members of ICE with no more than seven years industry experience.
Congratulations to the Loughborough University team who will represent the East Midlands region in the national final in London this June.
The team beat off competition from the Yorkshire and Humber region beating their Tata Steel team in the semi-finals in Sheffield in May.
The competition has been very successful in past years. It has offered a large number of young engineers the opportunity to develop their communications skills in role play public consultation scenarios based around mock engineering scheme proposals.
The scope of communications scenarios includes the public consultation phase and then the pre-construction community relations phase (for the final).
We continue to encourage student entries either as a team made up from one or more Universities or as individuals attached to a team of professionally experienced ICE members.< Teams will be made up of four people, except where a team has an individual student member, whereupon a team of five will be permitted.
The regional round
The task of each team is to select one of five pre-prepared engineering scheme proposal scenarios and to:
- Prepare a consultation strategy;
- Produce a public information leaflet;
- Make a presentation and gather information at a “role play” public consultation meeting.
- The presentation element should last a maximum of 20 minutes. Each team will be required to answer questions, respond to comments from the floor and / or judges, for 10 minutes. Each team will hold the floor for a maximum of 30 minutes.
You can make any assumption necessary about detail in any of the scenarios but you may not change broad parameters or adopt a different scenario to that outlined.
Marking
Presentation and audience interface – the presentation is worth 30% of the judges’ marks. The quality of proactive and reactive dialogue with the audience at the ‘role play’ public meeting is worth 40% of the judges marks.
Consultation strategy - In no more than 200 words and 1 side of A4 – imagining you were doing the scenario for real, aiming to take the project from inception through to implementation, state what your overall strategy for consultation and community involvement would be. This is worth 10% of the judges’ marks.
Public information leaflet – this is worth 20% of the judges’ marks. Produce a leaflet to support your public consultation meeting.
The leaflet should be a maximum two sides of A4 in size including any cover or title page.