Governor Cuomo Plans to bring Clean Energy Through Competition Software of 76West

The 76West Challenge that Skild’s competition management system proudly supports is making waves with their success! The 76West competition is very similar to the 43North challenge thats competition management was also through Skild. 76West is a clean energy contest that’s main goal is to challenge startups and growing entrepreneurs everywhere to create clean energy businesses and jobs in New York State’s Southern Tier Region. 43North’s only difference really was bringing clean businesses to Western New York instead. As of right now the application process for 76West is closed but starting in April of this year, we will get to see the Semi-finalists chosen through the competition software! New York is “cleaning up” its act Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has pushed for this competition platform in hopes that this will help create energy efficient businesses ultimately building a better system in New York.
https://luciuscambell.wordpress.com/2016/03/09/governor-cuomo-plans-to-bring-clean-energy-through-competition-software-of-76west/

Carbon Mitigation and Why the Global Friends Prizes Contest Platform is So Important To It

The Earth has been going through a lot of changes recently and unfortunately, a lot of them are affecting our planet for the worse. This is why carbon mitigation is so important right now. Carbon mitigation is all about making an effort to prevent the emission of greenhouse gases. Because we have a big reliance on fossil fuels such as coal, oil, etc., the emissions from these gases have risen exponentially. So now the need for reducing these gases in order to help create a more balanced atmosphere is crucial. And this is exactly why contest software like that of the Global Friends Prizes Challenge is imperative to not only the people participating, but also to the impact it could have on the entire world.
https://luciuscambell.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/carbon-mitigation-and-why-the-global-friends-prizes-contest-platform-is-so-important-to-it/

iCodeHack Makes Skild Proud of Hackathon Community

For the first time ever iCode4Kids is making the scene as a hackathon for kids. On April 16th the hackathon will take place in downtown Dallas at the AT&T headquarters. This organization is all about bringing STEM a.k.a science, technology, engineering, and math to the attention of the younger generation. This will be a special opportunity for young students from elementary school all the way up to high school to be able to spend a day problem solving with STEM to find solutions to real world problems. Founder and CEO of iCode, Abid Abedi is very excited to see this hackathon come together and mold the minds of youths.
https://luciuscambell.wordpress.com/2016/03/03/icodehack-makes-skild-proud-of-hackathon-community/

Skild Recalls Community College Innovation Contest 2015 Winners

This is now the second year that Skild has been honored with creating the platform for the Community College Innovation contest. Its main purpose is to challenge students from community colleges to find solutions to real-world problems through use of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Community colleges hold about 40 percent of the U.S. undergraduates so it’s great to see a competition aimed at such a large and smart group of people. The application period may be over as of February 15th, but there are still a few judging rounds until the finalists are chosen. The success from last years challenge has made it possible for this competition to continue and change the lives of many. We are so excited to see what the students come up with for this year, but we couldn’t forget about the 2015 Winners.
https://luciuscambell.wordpress.com/2016/03/01/skild-recalls-community-college-innovation-contest-2015-winners/

Skild’s Online Contest Management Supports Fund for Rural Prosperity Innovation Challenge

While Skild would love to be a part of every online contest management, sometimes others get the lucky opportunity to share the innovation. The MasterCard Fund for Rural Prosperity innovation competition, is one in particular that Skild didn’t work on but still extremely proud of such a phenomenal challenge. This online contest software, “requires proposals that seek to design, pilot, test and launch new financial products and services that can effectively meet the financing needs of people living in poverty in rural and agricultural areas,” according to their website. Basically, the MasterCard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity will give $50 million to whoever wins this challenge by successfully helping people living in poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa with financial services. Strategy for people in poverty Many people in Africa are living in extremely poor situations with no idea how to change this path that they are on.
https://luciuscambell.wordpress.com/2016/02/15/skilds-online-contest-management-supports-fund-for-rural-prosperity-innovation-challenge/

CappSci’s Inventors Contest Software Winner Dr. Prasoon Diwakar’s Laser Detector

In December, the winners of the 2016 CappSci’s Inventors contest software were announced distributing $1 million to 10 inventors over a five-year period. Through the Skild platform, the administrators of the contest chose to single out one finalist who has been making an exceptional pursuit with his invention - Dr. Prasoon Diwakar."" His invention is a Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Detector (Say that five times fast). Bringing science to the people Diwakar is a research scientist who has dabbled with the use of lasers for quite some time. Needless to say, lasers are not new to him. When he was an intern at CNR-TEMPE he studied soot formations in fames using laser diagnostics. This later motivated his epic laser creation – The Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Detector.
https://luciuscambell.wordpress.com/2016/02/09/cappscis-inventors-contest-software-winner-dr-prasoon-diwakars-laser-detector/

A Look back at 2015 Service Year and Higher Ed Innovation Competition Winners

2015 was a successful year for the Service Year and Higher Education innovation competition. The competition was designed to connect young adults in school with performing charitable services in order to gain course credits. Through this competition platform, people had the opportunity to send in their project ideas that would help students do a service through something that they may be passionate about so they could take those skills with them to future job positions. According to the website, the 2015 finalists for each category and the ideas they Proposed were: Community Colleges – Miami Dade College Proposed a Changemaker Corps, a peer to peer mentoring and support program that helps youth who have aged out of foster care mentor other foster care system students, with the goal of helping them stay in school, graduate, and develop employ ability skills.
https://luciuscambell.wordpress.com/2016/02/03/a-look-back-at-2015-service-year-and-higher-ed-innovation-competition-winners/