Maine's first-place winners will later compete against students from all 50 states at the 2001 Global Finals, to be held in June at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Students are given a set of problems to solve that combine critical thinking skills with performance arts and engineering.
Judges score each teams performance based on how effectively and creatively problems are addressed.
This program continues to thrive because of the hundreds of volunteers, seversl sponsors and many Maine schools and colleges. The problems are determined prior to the competition, and each team chooses one problem from a common set. In addition to the preplanned problem solutions, students must also solve a problem given to them on the day of competition. Saturday's competition will open at 8 a.m. with ceremonies at the Maine Center for the Arts. Anonymously Yours will take place in the Donald P. Corbett Business Building from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.