Challenge Summary
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 generate "fun" content for "The Ball" activity. We will buy all submissions we like beyond first through fifth.
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.
- Each submission must have exactly 1 hunt, we are looking for "fun", and "interesting" topics
- 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 ?
We are looking for fun and interesting hunts, no specific topic, it can be anything.
What is the requirement for these Hunts?
- The Hunt topics should be fun and 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 1 hunt, use the attached "TheBallTemplate.doc" as base for your submission:
- 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, we will NOT accept any submission does not render well in testing tool
Submission Details
Preview Image
Use a screenshot of your document 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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