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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: http://nonamesite.com

The scavenger hunter activity is an updated take on "The Ball", an application TopCoder built a few years ago. It is not so much a game as it is a reading comprehension test. Users will load the activity, which will be an HTML wrapper around an iFrame that loads a third party site. The "ball" is embedded on the loaded 3rd party site and is exposed when the user mouses over a configurable area.

You will be provided with a prototype, a conceptualization defining game rules, and a proof of concept that shows how the game can work. You will be expected to merge these all into a working activity portlet and page that can be embedded onto the CS-STEM NoNameSite.com application

The Activity Tracking API integration is not required for this contest.

Final Submission Guidelines

Please see the wiki - http://apps.topcoder.com/wiki/display/docs/Module+Assembly+-+CS-Stem+NoNameSite+Scavenger+Hunt+Assembly