Duke U challenges students to improve Duke life using tech. $5000 in rewards.

[jeremyrwelch]

http://today.duke.edu/2013/02/colab

[jeremyrwelch]

Anyone know of similar programs at other top engineering schools (MIT, Stanford, Cal, Carnegie Mellon, many others)?

[ipince → jeremyrwelch]

The iCampusPrize at MIT does exactly that. It has $15,000 in prizes and it has been running since 2008.

It has two stages: (1) for prototype submissions and small prizes of ~$1,000, (2) final fully-working submissions and big prize of up to $10,000.

We entered the competition in 2011 with a book exchange site and won ~3,000. The site's still running.

Past winners: http://icampusprize.mit.edu/past-winners/

Edit: fixed wrong link

[jeremyrwelch → ipince]

Awesome. Thanks for the info, and congrats on winning.