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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 the 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

This contest will implement a single new porlet - a voting widget. We have an existing voting widget, but it was implemented in Flash and hasn't always worked properly across all browsers, especially IE. This assembly will implement the same widget, but in HTML. A prototype has already been created for the look and feel, animations, and general functionality. This assembly will take the prototype and will merge it with the services and backend data structures for the Flash version, swapping out the Flash front end for the new HTML front end, ensuring it will work in IE 7+, Safari, FireFox, and Chrome.

This should be a fairly easy assembly to implement. If you have been watching all the many CS-STEM projects posted and would like to get involved - here's your chance!

Final Submission Guidelines

Please see the wiki: http://apps.topcoder.com/wiki/display/docs/CS-Stem+Voting+Widget+Portlet+Assembly