At the Challenge and Prize Community Office Hours in September 2024, we held an Ask Me Anything (AMA) with representatives from the Department of Energy (DOE) American-Made Challenges program. The Challenge.gov team recently hosted a webinar on Federal Innovation Through Prize Competitions with our colleagues at the Department of Energy. We invited the speakers to Office Hours so members of the community could have a deeper discussion about important topics raised at the event.
+ +This conversation led to a great question from a community member from the Department of Justice (USDOJ): what are some ideas and examples of successful non-monetary prizes and incentives?
+Here are some of the creative ideas we discussed: +
And finally, our colleagues at NASA have lots of fun ideas for non-monetary incentives, including: +
Office Hours are for Federal challenge managers, the Challenge & Prize Community of Practice, and other federal employees interested in learning more about prize competitions. They are held on the 4th Wednesday of the month at 12 pm ET via Zoom.gov. Register here.
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Join Challenge.gov for a webinar series exploring how key federal agencies are using prize competitions to drive innovation, solve national challenges, and advance critical initiatives. Each session will highlight a different agency and their approaches to designing, delivering, and scaling prize competitions to advance their agency’s mission.
-National Institutes of Health, October 9, 3:00 - 4:00 pm ET
-U.S. Agency for International Development, November 7, 3:00 - 4:00 pm ET
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U.S. Agency for International Development, November 7, 3:00 - 4:00 pm ET
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, December 11, 3:00 - 4:00 pm ET
Don't miss this chance to learn from federal innovation leaders. This series is ideal for federal employees or innovators interested in how prize competitions are advancing solutions from energy and health to global development and space exploration.
@@ -36,6 +35,20 @@ title: EventsThe second session of our Federal Innovation Through Prize Competitions webinar series featured the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This one-hour webinar explored how NIH is using prize competitions to develop innovations that address important problems. +
+Participants learned about the impact of prize competitions in NIH's innovation efforts, the factors that led to NIH’s growth in prize competitions, and ways the public can contribute to important health solutions.
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