📋 Rough-Cut Planning Gate

Teams present their empathy artifact, evidence tracker, draft story focus, and assumptions-to-verify list in a mid-project planning critique with peers, teachers, and invited stakeholders. Reviewers use a rubric to score clarity, accuracy, and likely audience impact, and teams identify one strong moment, one confusing moment, and one next step for both the video direction and their group process. Only teams that demonstrate sufficient evidence coverage and a viable 3-minute angle move forward to concept prototyping.