Crowd Sourcing Challeges

While this blog has shown a variety of industries who apply this Crowd Sourcing to their business model, people should also seek out ways to get involved. While businesses are looking for insights to grow their own work, one can still seek these out, not just for personal gain but to offer value to something you care about. This could even be the foot in the door to employment in some cases. Below you will find some Crowd Sourcing Challenges proposed to find new and innovative ideas. It would also be greatly appreciated to get your input on these opportunities. Feel free to either comment with your thoughts or any Crowd Sourcing Challenges you have found.

The listed Crowd Sourcing Challenges are found at Challenge.gov focused on Government Agencies.

"The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards recognize innovative technologies that incorporate green chemistry into chemical design, manufacture and use, and help advance protection of human health and the environment.

Green chemistry is the design of chemical products or processes that reduce both the generation and use of chemicals that are hazardous to the environment or people’s health. Nominations for innovative technologies feature the design of greener chemicals, synthesis, or reactions.

Nominations may cover any technology, but EPA is particularly interested in receiving nominations on approaches or technologies that reduce or eliminate the need for brominated flame retardant chemicals. EPA anticipates recognizing five award winning green chemistry technologies this fall.

Award nominations are due to EPA by April 30, 2013."

Source: Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards 2013

"To stimulate innovations in energy storage technologies of value in extreme space environments and in renewable energy systems on Earth—

• demonstrate a high energy density storage systems that meet the demands imposed by the daylight/darkness cycle on the Moon to enable a rover to operate throughout the lunar darkness cycle
• Energy system innovations to benefit terrestrial applications, including vehicles and renewable energy generation systems.

Dates are approximate at this time and will be finalized at time of registration and rules announcement.

 The prize purse is $1.5 million. Detailed rules and plans will be announced in the coming months.  The competition is expected to occur in early 2014. More information at www.NightRover.org and www.nasa.gov/challenges

Important dates

Submission Period:

Start: Feb 01, 2013 12:00 AM EST End: Oct 25, 2013 10:00 PM EDT

Winners announced:

Apr 01, 2014 10:00 PM EDT"

Source: Night Rover Challenge 2014

"Additionally, The ISS Fit challenge is to design, develop and produce an iPad app that will allow International Space Station crewmembers to easily enter and track food items.  It is your job to develop an app to identify the user, track dietary intake, and provide a timestamp of when the food was consumed.   We need a more detailed log of dietary intake so that we can better understand the role of nutrition in spaceflight, and provide better dietary recommendations to help mitigate the negative physiological effects of spaceflight.  The app could take photos of the foods, use a voice recorder option, provide an easy way to enter foods manually or by creating an interactive voice command system.

Important dates

Submission Period:

Start: Feb 10, 2013 09:00 AM EST End: Jul 01, 2013 05:00 PM EDT"

Source: Nasa Iss Fit Food Intake Tracker Ipad App Challenge