A suggested timeline for the project is as follows:

February 27 - March 31, 2006
 

Register for the project

March 1 - March 15, 2006
  Develop criteria and post to project web site
March 16 - March 31, 2006
   Evaluate inventions on American Inventor
April 3 - April 28, 2006
  Design an orignal invention
May 1 - May 26, 2006
  Build and test invention
May 30 - June 2, 2006
  Post your invention on project web site
June 5 - June 9, 2006
  Each invention recognized with an award