KEY DATES
+ Gingerbuilder kits on sale until December 1st or until we run out of supplies - whichever comes first!
+ Kits available for pickup Thursday + Friday, December 3rd and 4th at multiple convenient locations [TBD]
+ Submit your entry to the Gingerbread Design-Build Competition by 2pm Saturday December 12th via this form
+ Online auction bidding opens December 7th at noon
THE COMPETITION
+ Divide your kit into as many pieces as you like
+ Submit only 1 video per team, if you'd like the full project to be considered [each submission will be its own entry]
+ Aggregate before submitting: the name of your project(s), a few sentences describing the piece (this could be read aloud during the livestream!), the best couple photos of your project, and a 30-second (MAXIMUM) video with your project and your "pitch" selling your design to our judges
BAKE YOUR OWN GINGERBREAD
+ Traditional recipe available here from Simply Recipes
+ Or do it the Sawhorse way with this recipe
AWARDS CATEGORIES
+ Best Presentation: This one is all about the video pitch your team submits. Style it up!
+ Sci Fi Future: This creation lives in and serves a bizarre utopian or dystopian society.
+ Better World: This creation imagines and sparks hope in a better world for its community.
+ Engineering: Impress our judges with your mastery of physics.
+ Best Dressed: The belle of the building ball.
+ Youth Built: Best structure created by a team of youth gingerbread contractors (18 and under).
+ Great Gingerbread Bake-off: An award reserved exclusively for the best of those who home-made their gingerbread.
+ Out of the Box: An award for the best of those who worked with ONLY the materials provided in their Sawhorse kit.
+ Cheat to Win: An award for those who went off the map and included some wild extras.
+ Hail Mary: Somehow, someway, you managed to pull your submission all together.
+ Judges' Choice and Audience Choice: Awards without specific metrics, just the favorites of our judges and YOU!
+ Best in Show: This one will go in the history books.