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    {"title" :"Challenge and Prize Practitioners Gather at GSA","summary" : "Got innovation? Well, we do! On Wednesday May 28, the Challenge.gov team gathered the Challenges and Prizes Community of Practice together for its quarterly meeting. The group covered two topics: Highlights from challenge competitions run in 2013.","date" : "2014-06-13T10:00:48-04:00","date_modified" : "2024-04-02T09:45:13-04:00","authors" : {"ktrebon" : "Karen Trebon"},"topics" : {
        
            "challenges-and-prize-competitions" : "Challenges & Prize Competitions",
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      "filepath" :"news/2014/06/2014-06-13-challenge-and-prize-practitioners-gather-at-gsa.md",
      "filepathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/blob/cm-topics-button-component/content/news/2014/06/2014-06-13-challenge-and-prize-practitioners-gather-at-gsa.md",
      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/cm-topics-button-component/content/news/2014/06/2014-06-13-challenge-and-prize-practitioners-gather-at-gsa.md","slug" : "challenge-and-prize-practitioners-gather-at-gsa","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/cm-topics-button-component/2014/06/13/challenge-and-prize-practitioners-gather-at-gsa/","content" :"\u003cp\u003eGot \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/cm-topics-button-component/topics/challenges-and-prize-competitions/\" title=\"Link to Challenges Content on DigitalGov.gov\"\u003einnovation\u003c/a\u003e? Well, we do!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn Wednesday May 28, the \u003ca href=\"https://challenge.gov/\"\u003eChallenge.gov\u003c/a\u003e team gathered the Challenges and Prizes Community of Practice. The group covered two topics:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHighlights from challenge competitions run in 2013.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConcepts and tips for working with solvers to build teams.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2014/06/600-x-450-Challenges-and-Prizes-Community-of-Practice-quarterly-meeting-May-28-2014-photo-11.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Challenges and Prizes Community of Practice quarterly meeting on May 28, 2014\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eCristin Dorgelo, Assistant Director for Grand Challenges at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp\"\u003eWhite House Office of Science and Technology Policy\u003c/a\u003e, shared the results of a \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/cm-topics-button-component/2014/05/07/new-white-house-report-prize-competition-use-increased-85-in-2013/\"\u003erecent report on challenge and prize competitions\u003c/a\u003e conducted under \u003ca href=\"https://cio.gov/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2012/09/Prize_Authority_in_the_America_COMPETES_Reauthorization_Act.pdf\"\u003eAmerica COMPETES Act\u003c/a\u003e Authority.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrends include:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFederal agencies are maturing and are no longer using challenges for communications and engagement purposes. They are now using them to get novel solutions from non-standard solvers.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChallenge and prize competitions are being used to frame future strategy. \u003ca href=\"http://www.rebuildbydesign.org/\"\u003eHUD’s Rebuild by Design\u003c/a\u003e and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nei.nih.gov/challenge/\"\u003eNational Eye Institute’s Audacious Goals for Research\u003c/a\u003e are great examples of this.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGot code? \u003ca href=\"https://www.challenge.gov/list/?type=SoftwareApps\" title=\"Software and apps challenges on Challenge.gov\"\u003eChallenges are becoming a great source of code, apps, algorithms\u003c/a\u003e, and shared service IT solutions, resulting in significant cost savings.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrize purses are increasing.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAgencies are forging new paths to post-competition success.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"solver-teams\"\u003eSolver Teams\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeth Beck from \u003ca href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/offices/COECI/#.U435EPldWXE\"\u003eNASA\u003c/a\u003e talked about how to help teams form in challenge and prize competitions. Her advice was to remember that we all have some form of capital to bring to a team—intellectual, social, or physical.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOften, people think that only coders and technical people will be useful in competitions. But it is the designers, writers, and creative people that round out a team and even give an edge when it comes to presentations. NASA has a number of in-person events where they encourage people to work in teams, and they also have mechanisms for creating teams with virtual participants.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe src=\"//www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/3dZw0746iAWYHh\" width=\"595\" height=\"485\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;\" allowfullscreen\u003e \u003c/iframe\u003e \u003cdiv style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e \u003ca href=\"//www.slideshare.net/bethbeck/nasas-2014-international-space-apps-challenge-collaborative\" title=\"NASA\u0026#x27;s 2014 International Space Apps Challenge: Collaboration Process\" alt=\"Slides: NASA's 2014 International Space Apps Challenge: Collaboration Process\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eNASA\u0026#x27;s 2014 International Space Apps Challenge: Collaboration Process\u003c/a\u003e \u003c/strong\u003e from \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.slideshare.net/bethbeck\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBeth Beck\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharles Liarakos from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.challenge.gov/list/?ag=National%20Science%20Foundation\" title=\"National Science Foundation Challenge and Prize Competitions on Challenge.gov \"\u003eNational Science Foundation\u003c/a\u003e also spoke, and said that it’s important to track whether teams stay together, and how well they continue to work. His organization has tracked the long-term effects of innovation teams and the results compared to a general workforce addressing the same issues. Liarakos told the audience that their multi-day work groups were intense and that the need to follow-up a few weeks and even months later is critical to understanding the impact.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe src=\"//www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/AicOdUpH1ct0MH\" width=\"595\" height=\"485\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;\" allowfullscreen\u003e \u003c/iframe\u003e \u003cdiv style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e \u003ca href=\"//www.slideshare.net/DigitalGov/nsf-ideas-lab-2014\" title=\"NSF Ideas lab 2014\" alt=\"Slides: NSF Ideas Lab 2014\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eNSF Ideas lab 2014\u003c/a\u003e \u003c/strong\u003e from \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.slideshare.net/DigitalGov\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDigitalGov from General Services Administration\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn closing, make your teams, communities and challenge solvers care about your mission, because in the future, we will be crowdsourcing all the time. Not just during challenge and prize competitions.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo see all the conversation from this training session, check out \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23publicprizes\u0026amp;src=typd\"\u003eTwitter hashtag #publicprizes\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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