Duke U challenges students to improve Duke life using tech. $5000 in rewards. (today.duke.edu) 14 points by jeremyrwelch 13y ago ↗ HN
[–] jeremyrwelch 13y ago ↗ Anyone know of similar programs at other top engineering schools (MIT, Stanford, Cal, Carnegie Mellon, many others)? [–] ipince 13y ago ↗ The iCampusPrize at MIT does exactly that. It has $15,000 in prizes and it has been running since 2008.It has two stages: (1) for prototype submissions and small prizes of ~$1,000, (2) final fully-working submissions and big prize of up to $10,000.We entered the competition in 2011 with a book exchange site and won ~3,000. The site's still running.Past winners: http://icampusprize.mit.edu/past-winners/Edit: fixed wrong link [–] jeremyrwelch 13y ago ↗ Awesome. Thanks for the info, and congrats on winning.
[–] ipince 13y ago ↗ The iCampusPrize at MIT does exactly that. It has $15,000 in prizes and it has been running since 2008.It has two stages: (1) for prototype submissions and small prizes of ~$1,000, (2) final fully-working submissions and big prize of up to $10,000.We entered the competition in 2011 with a book exchange site and won ~3,000. The site's still running.Past winners: http://icampusprize.mit.edu/past-winners/Edit: fixed wrong link [–] jeremyrwelch 13y ago ↗ Awesome. Thanks for the info, and congrats on winning.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 26.4 ms ] threadIt has two stages: (1) for prototype submissions and small prizes of ~$1,000, (2) final fully-working submissions and big prize of up to $10,000.
We entered the competition in 2011 with a book exchange site and won ~3,000. The site's still running.
Past winners: http://icampusprize.mit.edu/past-winners/
Edit: fixed wrong link