Main DARPA CS-STEM page | DARPA CS-STEM active contests  | DARPA CS-STEM blogs  | DARPA CS-STEM general forums  |

Overview:

The client of this application is DARPA. They have asked TopCoder to build a modern web-portal for education in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) and especially focused on Computer Science (CS) education. The CS-STEM web-site will be dedicated to middle and high school students in USA and allow them to learn a lot of interesting topics in a user-friendly environment, which at the same time is productive and professional. Users will earn achievements, awards and prizes on the web-site.

We assume CS-STEM portal will be like a new entire TC website, but specially dedicated to attracting and holding the interest of middle-high students (ages of 13...18) in computer science related topics.

You can see the current website here: nonamesite.com

This contest will implement a proof of concept for a Scavenger Hunt game. This type of game was attempted by TopCoder a few years ago, with mixed results, using browser plugins. We want a way to implement the scavenger hunt using Javascript so it is easier to maintain and browser independent.

The scavenger hunt code will embed hidden "balls" on a 3rd party website, forcing the user to interact with the 3rd party website to find the hidden balls.

Final Submission Guidelines

Please see the wiki for the full requirements:

http://apps.topcoder.com/wiki/display/docs/CS-Stem+Scavenger+Hunt+Proof+of+Concept