NaNoWriMo for Senior Project

In terms of presenting, would it be helpful to show your methodology in terms of research, structure, note outlines, etc. as well as the manuscript and a passage? For the research, you could have note outlines, character sheets, glossary of terms, as well as things that inspired you - photos of places/people/things, list of songs that inspired you while writing (if you use that sort of thing), etc.

I would also suggest maybe bending the rules a little by holding it a month or so earlier then official NanoWriMo. I don't know how keen your mentor and the judges will be about a project you won't be in full work-mode for until two months from now. There's nothing to say you can't make your project based or inspired by the concept of NaNoWriMo, rather than strictly adhering to it. You could even put it as another term/criteria of the project - one month's research/planning and one month's writing. You'd have a month to get all your notes, research and preliminary thoughts together, and then a month to get it all written down into the 50,000 words.