Three minutes, one number
The pitch structure is fixed: the problem in one sentence, the intervention in one sentence, the before-and-after numbers, the ask. Three minutes, no slides needed, one number the room will remember.
Resist the urge to narrate your journey. The room does not need your process. It needs your evidence and your ask, in that order.
Pitch to power, not just applause
Deliver it where it can change something: school assembly, the LGA meeting, the street association, a Cylin showcase. An audience that can say yes to something is worth ten audiences that can only clap.
End with a specific ask sized to the listener. A principal can approve a rota. An LGA officer can schedule a desilting. Your feed can replicate the project. Same pitch, different ask.
The loop closes
The best Lab projects each term are presented at the Climate Challenge showcase, and their one-pagers enter the open-source toolkit. Your project becomes teaching material for the next cohort, possibly taught by you.
This is where the whole Cylin model lands: you arrived as a learner, you leave as evidence. Take the assessment, submit your one-pager, and if you want to teach, say so. We are looking for you.
Hold on to these
- Problem, intervention, numbers, ask. Three minutes.
- Pitch to audiences that can say yes to something specific.
- Finished projects join the toolkit and teach the next cohort.
Check yourself
No grades here. If you can answer these out loud, you own the lesson.
- 1.Write your pitch's four beats in four sentences.
- 2.Who is your yes-audience, and what is the ask sized to them?
- 3.What would it take for your one-pager to be taught to the next cohort?