/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/authors/heather-evans/ Recent content on Digital.gov Hugo en-us /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/12/15/challenge-app-titude-a-successful-newcomer-offers-a-few-tips/ Tue, 15 Dec 2015 13:18:52 -0400 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/12/15/challenge-app-titude-a-successful-newcomer-offers-a-few-tips/ The Reference Data Challenge, launched this summer, was a call for innovative approaches to a long-standing role of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to make “critically evaluated reference data available to scientists, engineers and the general public.” This challenge—our first-ever app contest and second prize competition as an agency—had the dual aims