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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,

     

    I usually do not look very much at the prizes as I do the aspects of the challenge and the opportunity to do something interesting with the components provided.

     

    I understand that some challenges entail a lot more work than others, so I agree that the prizes should reflect a good reward for the effort expended.

     

    To entice more participants, you might want to add more ancillary prizes so that even the people who do not win get some value for their time and effort.

    A better reward structure might get more recipients to actually follow through and blog through the challenge.

     

    DAB

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  • Hi Nicole,

     

    I usually do not look very much at the prizes as I do the aspects of the challenge and the opportunity to do something interesting with the components provided.

     

    I understand that some challenges entail a lot more work than others, so I agree that the prizes should reflect a good reward for the effort expended.

     

    To entice more participants, you might want to add more ancillary prizes so that even the people who do not win get some value for their time and effort.

    A better reward structure might get more recipients to actually follow through and blog through the challenge.

     

    DAB

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  • in reply to DAB

    Thanks all for taking the time to share your thoughts - I am so glad to hear that so many of you are motivated by the challenge itself and not so much the prize at the end of it - although I'm sure a physical "prize" is the nice "cherry on top" for all the hard work!  

     

    I also can appreciate that the investment of time to compete in a Design Challenge is quite substantial as well - I'm also hearing that many of you feel some kind of "finishers" prize would be a good idea to keep people from losing interest and motivation along the way.   I also like the idea of the top winners being able to pick their prize.  i.e. the first place winner would get dibs and so on...

     

    I'll be sure to pass along these ideas to our Design Challenge Program Manager; and please feel free to keep the conversation and ideas going in the meantime if you think of anything else as well.

     

    Thanks!