Top college athletes can imagine themselves carrying off a national championship trophy, for MBAs there’s The Innovation Challenge®. These teams aren’t competing in stadiums with thousands of cheering fans. They’re developing innovative business ideas to give small business owners with limited IT budgets the tools available to the pros. AT&T is ready to tap into [...]
Vote for your favorite Science Visualization!
Skild is powering the National Science Foundation’s 9th Annual Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. Voting Ends Friday October 28th at 9pm PST! Over 3000 voters have registered to cast votes. If you missed the voting period you can still view and login to comment on the top 50 finalists. The winners will be featured on [...]
Vote on Your Favorite STEM Video Game
Cooney Center Prizes opens community voting for the National STEM Video Game Challenge If you have a chance, check out the great list of STEM Video Games posted on the Cooney Center Prizes site. It’s great to see so many good ideas for STEM learning come out of the National STEM Video Game Challenge. You [...]
Student Team from Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley Wins Eighth Annual Innovation Challenge
Jiffy Lube International and Samsung Electronics among corporate sponsors that presented 2010 Innovation Challenge problem statements Los Angeles, CA – December 23, 2010 Leading skill-based contest agency and software provider, Idea Crossing, announced today that Team Haastile Takeover from the Haas School of Business from the University of California at Berkeley is the winner of [...]
Get Your Game On: Register for the National STEM Video Game Challenge!
National STEM Video Game Challenge Open for Applications! The first annual National STEM Video Game Challenge is now open for applications. This nationwide challenge invites game makers big and small to show their passion for playing and making video games. This competition aims to motivate children’s interests in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). The Developer Prize [...]
Last Call for Entries & Registrations, More than $2.2 Million in Cash Prizes Up for Grabs
We’re really testing the limits of the Skild platform this week with the close of entries for two of our clients, and the registration deadline for the Innovation Challenge. Entries for the inaugural GMAC MET Fund Ideas to Innovation Challenge are due on Friday – it’s only a one page submission for a shot at $50K. What’s [...]
Google’s Project 10^100 Winners Announced
From more than 150,000 ideas and over 12 months of judging, Google finally revealed the five organizations who will receive $10 million in funding to carry their ideas forward as part of their 10^100 Project. The following winners were selected from 16 finalists in a range of categories: 1. The Khan Academy for their idea to [...]
Auto X PRIZE Awarded and Obama Announces the National STEM Video Game Challenge
Lots of prize-related activity in DC today. This morning the$10 Million Progressive Automotive X PRIZE was awarded at the Historical Society to three teams: $2.5M to X-Racer Team Switzerland for the alternative tandem class; $2.5M to Li-On Motors for the alternative side-by-side class; and $5M to the mainstream class winner, Edison2 and the “Very Light Car [...]
White House CTO Aneesh Chopra Announces Cooney Center Prize Winners at E3
It was great to witness the culmination of the inaugural Cooney Center Prizes for Innovation in Children’s Learning yesterday at E3 in downtown Los Angeles. The Winner of the Breakthroughs in Mobile learning category was Project NOAH, a mobile app for teaching children and youth to appreciate our natural surroundings. Coincidentally, Aneesh mentioned during the [...]
Prize Veterans Share Best Practices/Learnings at The White House
Follow the conversation and live video stream at http://www.casefoundation.org/case-soup Rob McEwen from Gold Corp Challenge & Jim Bennett from the NetFlix Prize “The biggest goldmine lies between everyone’s ears” – Rob McEwen
