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Design Challenge Prizes - What Do You Want?

nlarson

For those of you who have applied to compete in a Design Challenge at element14 Community what prizes did you feel motivated you the most to sign up? If you haven't applied, what prizes would motivate you the most to sign up and compete?  What prizes would you like to see that haven't been offered yet?  Does a goodie bag of products get you motivated? How about a chance to meet and spend a day with your electronics engineering "celebrity" or maybe mentoring sessions from an industry expert?  

 

Please share your thoughts below to help us make prizes better for future Design Challenges.  (cc: Members Top Members RoadTests & Reviews )

 

Thanks!

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  • Hi Nicole,

     

    Thanks for the chance to provide feedback. A lot of the previous comments echo my own.

     

    In the main, I feel Element14 do a great job running their design challenges - certainly I don't know of any other community/website that does anything similar on a regular basis. (Circuit Cellar used to run regular contests a number of years ago).

     

    Here are some of the things I thing E14 have done right:

    • The design challenges are themed, and usually very current. The prizes themselves are generally secondary to the challenge itself.
    • The prizes for previous challenges have been varied - sometimes they are more technical (an oscilloscope), sometimes not (a laptop), sometimes there is just one, sometimes more.
    • Global entrants - I love that E14 allow entries from all over the world. I live in a small corner of the southern hemisphere, and often events from other websites are "US residents only"
    • Engagement - There has been nice promotion of the challenges and related webinars.

     

    Here are some other comments:

    • For those that aren't initially chosen for the challenges, how about offering the chance to buy a discounted "entry pack" with all the relevant dev kits?
    • Some of the previous challenges have suffered greatly from shipping delays.
    • Some of the challenges are really big in scope. Some smaller ones might be good. For example, who can make the most efficient power regulator? Who can make the best Raspberry Pi weather station?
  • in reply to tekmeister

    I live in a small corner of the southern hemisphere

    Actually the corner we live in is HUGE, it's just lucky there aren't many countries ...

     

    Some of the previous challenges have suffered greatly from shipping delays.

    Dave Hamblin has that in his sights, and he's hoping to bring it to a central point to minimise the delays going forward.

    It has been one area that will continue to be a problem, not helped by increasing the number of contestants (a good thing) as element14 has done on some challenges.

     

    One the best things that has come out of the challenges is the inter-challenger assistance.

    Despite competing against each other for a prize, they share problems/solutions and offer help ...

     

    That shows true community spirit and no prize or money buys that.

     

    Mark

  • in reply to mcb1

    One the best things that has come out of the challenges is the inter-challenger assistance.

    Despite competing against each other for a prize, they share problems/solutions and offer help ...

     

    That shows true community spirit and no prize or money buys that.

     

    ... and this is the first time I see this image

  • in reply to balearicdynamics

    ... and this is the first time I see this

    It's been there since the Forget Me Not ... but was quite likely in previous ones as well.

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