Competition Spotlight: Innovation in Graduate Education Challenge


Our world is changing faster than ever before–technology is developing at an unprecedented rate and the world faces extraordinary challenges with solutions based in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). What is needed to prepare STEM graduate students to meet these modern day challenges? Fundamental changes are also occurring in…

RBC Next Great Innovator Challenge: University of Waterloo Students Win $20,000

TORONTO, Feb. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Five Finalist Teams Win Cash and Interview with RBC Recruiter

University of Waterloo students were named the winners of the 2012 RBC Next Great Innovator Challenge. The university team was awarded $20,000 by a panel of RBC senior executives after presenting their…

Student Team from Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley Wins Eighth Annual Innovation Challenge


Jiffy Lube International and Samsung Electronics among corporate sponsors that presented 2010 Innovation Challenge problem statements
Los Angeles, CA – December 23, 2010
Leading skill-based contest agency and software provider, Idea Crossing, announced today that Team Haastile Takeover from the Haas School of Business from the University of California at…

Last Call for Entries & Registrations, More than $2.2 Million in Cash Prizes Up for Grabs

We’re really testing the limits of the Skild platform this week with the close of entries for two of our clients, and the registration deadline for the Innovation Challenge. Entries for the inaugural GMAC MET Fund Ideas to Innovation Challenge are due on Friday – it’s only a one page submission for…

Auto X PRIZE Awarded and Obama Announces the National STEM Video Game Challenge


Lots of prize-related activity in DC today. This morning the$10 Million Progressive Automotive X PRIZE was awarded at the Historical Society to three teams: $2.5M to X-Racer Team Switzerland for the alternative tandem class; $2.5M to Li-On Motors for the alternative side-by-side class; and $5M to the mainstream class winner, Edison2…

Coppead wins 1st annual Innovation Challenge Brazil

Congratulations and a job well-done to Insper. With some of our training and best practices for managing an official Innovation Challenge competition they skillfully executed.  Obrigado Marcos & Insper!

Idea Crossing partnered with Insper Sao Paulo (formerly IBMEC) to bring the first edition of a Brazilian Innovation Challenge.
Innovation Challenge…