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Overview:

The client of this application is DARPA. They asked TopCoder to make a modern web-portal for education in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) and especially focused on Computer Science (CS) education. That 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.

We assume CS-STEM portal will be like a new entire TC website, but specially dedicated to the education of middle-high students (ages of 13...18).

One of the activities for the site will be a scavenger hunt. 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. The ball is hidden on a series of different sites. When the user has found the ball on each site, the game ends.

We have a proof of concept done, but we need to identify major deficiencies in the approach taken.

Final Submission Guidelines

Please see the wiki: http://apps.topcoder.com/wiki/display/docs/CS-STEM+Scavenger+Hunt+Bug+Hunt