criteria that they use: a range of projects, which are easily transportable and have a good initial impression, if someone designs a brilliant political system which it takes a while 2 understand then they obviously arent goin 2 be accepted because the projects need 2 appeal 2 the wider community
they also try not 2 put the projects which acheive the best marks due to their great folios up on display, otherwise, every student in the state would go 2 powerhouse and just examine everything they did and repeat it in their folio,
basically, being nominated is an honour, but its not the be all and end all, i know 3 people hu have acheived first in the state and none of em got nominated for designtech, but congrats 2 all the people hu actually make it, i look forward to looking at ur projects....