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 Ball". This activity is intended for 13-18 year old demographic in USA.
For this contest, we need to create new content for "The Ball" activity.
What type of activity is "The Ball" game?
"The Ball" activity is a type of game that will use an iFrame to load a 3rd party website that has an embedded hidden "ball", forcing the user to interact with the 3rd party website to find the hidden ball.
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 "The Ball" template provided in this contest for your submission.
- Generate 5 hunts in your submission, refer to the Hunts requirement section for more information about what type of hunts are looking for.
- Provide at least 5 "stops(websites)" for each 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 type of hunts are you looking for ?
- The Christmas hunt : we need one that is all about the 12 Days of Christmas
- The Hanukah hunt : we need one about the Hanukah traditions
- An entertainment hunt : something based around pop culture today, either music, movies, TV .. etc
- A sports hunt : something based on one particular sport or tournament
- A technology hunt : something based on cool things happening with technology like the new iPhone 4s, kinect .. etc
- In your submission you have to generate hunts for "The Christmas hunt" and "The Hanukah hunt", the other three hunts can be from one or more of the other hunt types.
What is the requirement for these Hunts?
- The Hunt topics should be interesting for kids ages 13-18 in USA.
- 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 selected website must render well in any settings - avoid heavy flash, overlays .. etc
- It is preferred that the stop(website) to have exactly one occurrence of the ball word, we don't want many occurrences of the ball word becuase it will be confusing for people.
- The stop(website) should show all the information from the hints, it should not require any external research.
- Use this testing tool to test the website rendering performance on iFrame. Do NOT append "http://" to the URL field, it will not load in the iFrame if you do that.
Target Audience?
13 to 18 years old kids in USA.
Submission Structure
For this contest, each submission should contain exactly five (5) hunts, use the attached "TheBallTemplate.doc" as base for your submission.
In your submission you have to generate hunts for "The Christmas hunt" and "The Hanukah hunt", the other three hunts can be from one or more of the other hunt types.
All five (5) hunts must be grouped into a single document, each Hunt should 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
- The Word
- Word Occurrence
- 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
- How well your submission address the outlined website requirements
Note that we may like more than five submissions and if we decide to purchase more, we will pay $100 for each extra submission!
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).
Please read the challenge specification carefully and watch the forums for any questions or feedback concerning this challenge. It is important that you monitor any updates provided by the client or Studio Admins in the forums. Please post any questions you might have for the client in the forums.