And The Winner Is....

As many of you know, I entered the OWAC competition with my friend Cory. We spent a lot of time on the competition and turned in some great slides. We ended up having the opportunity to present in front of three Omniture employees (who were the judges). Our competition were four other teams. While Cory and I have our reasons for winning the competition, we gained a new reason to win...we found out we were the only masters students in the competition at the U. So, we really had to make sure we didn't get shown up by undergrads.

At any rate, the day was crazy. I woke up early and headed for campus. There I met up with Cory and we practiced our presentation a few more times. When it was ready for us to present, I was a little nervous. As it felt like I was starting a roller coaster and was bracing myself for a downward spiral. My heart was racing, but I knew I had a job to do. I needed to make sure I did my best in the presentation. The whole experience went by as quickly as it began. 10 minutes is not a lot of time. However, I do remember feeling pretty good after answering some of the judges' questions.

After that, we had to wait. Since we were second to present, there was quite a long wait until we were to hear the judges' decision on who was to move on the next round at BYU. When they finally called us back in I had a great impatience upon me. I was getting anxious to know what the results were. After a long speech from one of the judges I finally heard the words, "next week we would like to hear from Potential Solutions!" I was so excited at that moment. Our team won the first spot to compete against BYU's top two teams. It was awesome.

Now, we have one week to prepare our slides again, fixing the areas the judges wanted us to and hopefully win the finals. At any rate, I'll be heading back to my alma mater on Friday of next week. How exciting!