Challenge Summary
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Project Overview
The DARPA CS-STEM project contains a number of different activities for users to participate in. We have a number of ideas that are going to be implemented, and one is the "Scavenger Hunt". This activity is intended for 13-18 year old demographic. The Scavenger Hunt is also called "The Ball".
For this contest, we need to create new content (hunts) for the "Scavenger Hunt" activity.
Round 1
At the end of Round 1, we will choose five (5) Round 1 winners, each will win $50 and a Review. These winners and any member who had a passing submission in round one will be eligible to compete in Round 2 for the additional $500 in prizes.
Round 2
Round 2 will start with the announcement of the Five (5) $50 Round 1 winners and their review. Also we will post any general feedback in contest forum.
At the end of Round 2, the best 5 ideas will receive 100$, we will also pay $100 for every additional idea we intend to use.
What type of activity is the "Scavenger Hunt" game?
The Scavenger Hunt activity is a type of game that will use an iFrame to load a 3rd party website that has an embedded hidden "balls", forcing the user to interact with the 3rd party website to find the hidden balls.
To understand more about the game, you can try to play it in production (You need be sign up as Parents to play the activity) http://www.nonamesite.com/web/cs-stem/scavenger-hunt-landing
What are the requirements of this contest?
In this contest you are required to generate hunts, a hunt represents a set of stops, each stop represents a website, a "stop(website)" has one hidden ball and three hints to find the hidden ball. In any given hunt, player will have to find all hidden balls in all "stops(websites)" to complete it, what is required in this contest:
- Use the "Scavenger Hunt" template provided in this contest for your submission.
- Provide at least 5 "stops(websites" for your hunt. The max number of "stops(websites)" is 10. We prefer 7 or more stops.
- Provide 3 hint for each "stop(website)", in decreasing difficulty (hard > medium > easy). See the template for an example.
What is the purpose of these Hunts?
Purpose of the "Scavenger Hunts" on NoNameSite:
- The purpose of these Hunts is to help "humanize" computer science and help kids understand that math and computers exist to help answer difficult and important questions.
- Taken together, the Hunts should help kids understand, through examples, how questions in one field (e.g. Ecology) can be answered or analyzed with computation.
- The Hunts should also help kids understand how computation drives modern daily life (from Twitter to cars).
- Hunts can help kids understand how computation has created opportunities in other countries and cultures.
- Hunts can be specific, helping a young student appreciate and understand, at a high level, core computational topics (memory management, error correcting, etc).
- Hunts can be general too, for example, helping a young student understand how computation is used is surgery.
What is the website requirement for these Hunts?
- The Hunt must have one or more unifying themes. Each website should contribute knowledge, background or curious facts to the unifying theme(s).
- Websites should be organized in a series to "scaffold" or "layer" knowledge. For example, an existing hunt for a brief dramatic history of early computers starts with Ada Lovelace, moves to Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, Von Neuman, etc.
- The Hunt theme must be computational or should tell the background story of a computational or mathematical topic.
- The selected website must render well in any settings - avoid heavy flash, overlays .. etc
Target Audience?
13 to 18 years old kids.
Submission Structure
For this contest, each submission should contain exactly one hunt, use the attached "ScavengerHuntTemplate.doc" as base for your submission.
The document contains the following information:
- Hunt theme description
- Propose or suggest theme icon (Optional)
- What knowledge or principles the theme is targeting
- Stop(s) details - Each stop represents a website, each "stop(website)" has one hidden ball and three hints to find the hidden ball:
- Site link
- Ball location, Ball X-Y position, Ball Diameter
- Hint 1, Hint 2 and Hint 3 (in decreasing difficulty)
Judging Criteria
Your submission will be judged based on the following criteria:
- Quality of the idea
- Compelling to Kids
- Overall Educational Value
- How well your submission address the outlined website requirements
Submission Details
Preview Image
Use a screenshot of the first website as your preview image as one (1) 1024x1024px JPG or PNG file in RGB color mode at 72dpi.
Submission ZIP File
All idea files including any drawings you have created. Please use the provided template and save as either Word format.
Source ZIP File
All original source files of the drawings/graphics plus your idea template file. (Often, these files will be the same as your Submission.zip files).
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