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This employee engagement program invites staff to create teams of five people and offers resources to help them think creatively and observe the world around them differently. An internal company challenge topic is chosen and each team is given $5,000 and five weeks to conduct research, and ultimately, design live presentations on how break through obstacles to achieve new levels of success.
This program has helped Activision earn a spot in Fast Company's inaugural list of "The 50 Best Workplaces for Innovators."
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The World Series of Innovation asks young people to tap into their creativity to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) identified by the United Nations in response to the most critical issues facing humanity. Participants from all over the world, ages 13–24, compete by proposing innovative solutions to address the SDGs. The challenges offer participants an opportunity to win cash prizes for their ideas while helping to make a better world.
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The Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge aims to recognize new innovative solutions that leverage technology for social impact from student entrepreneurs around the world. The challenge aims to recognize new business ideas that leverage technology for social impact from early-stage entrepreneurs around the world.
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Seeking breakthrough ideas that harness the power of data science to help people and communities rebound and remain resilient in the wake of COVID-19 and its economic impact. Launched in partnership with Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and The Rockefeller Foundation, the $10 Million Inclusive Growth and Recovery Challenge aims to foster and promote innovative, scalable solutions from people and organizations all over the world.
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Skilled trades teachers are heroes, and it’s time to recognize them. We’ve seen firsthand the impact that skilled trades teachers in this country are making in the lives of students. They’re teaching them how to repair cars, how to weld, how to build houses, how to install electrical systems and plumbing, the list goes on and on. These educators are giving our young people tangible skills that lead to great jobs after high school graduation. $1 million in prizes is awarded to outstanding skilled trades teachers and their public high schools.
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The Indy Autonomous Challenge is a competition among universities to create software that enables self-driving Indy Lights race cars to compete in a head-to-head race on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway track. The development of such software can help speed the commercialization of full autonomous vehicles and enhance existing advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) in people-driven cars. These technologies help drivers remain in control and avoid accidents by prompting awareness and improving accuracy.
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Head-to-head, high-speed autonomous vehicle race
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The Drucker Prize continues to recognize the organization that best exemplifies Peter Drucker’s definition of innovation: “change that creates a new dimension of performance.” While only one organization will win the $100,000, everyone who applies will get something just as valuable: powerful new tools for effectiveness.
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“The crowning stroke is that Skild team takes client relations to the highest level, and they are always eager to work with me to actualize new ideas.”
“The back end was user-friendly and easy to maintain, while the front end was very professional looking and easy for customers to use.”
“Skild support was outstanding and help us with all our questions as soon as they came up. I never want to do an event without them!”
“Skild lets me focus on what matters most: increasing participation and reducing the time I spend on the back-end.”
“The Skild team was very proactive in offering ways to improve the experience.”
So, you’ve got your event all lined up, a new website designed, submission forms outlined, prize money secured, you’ve tested everything on your competition platform (Skild, of course) and you’re ready to launch your program to the world. After all, as was said in the movie, Field of Dreams, “If you build it they will come.” You’re ready!
This document will highlight some of the ways you can target participants.
