Team Contests?

I think it could be a good instance for people to know each other better while spending time developing a project. I would expect a team to be able to accomplish more than single individuals too.

Would anyone find a team competition interesting?

What are your thoughts?

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tariq.ahmad over 6 years ago +8

We're always looking for new things to do and initiatives. One of the things you would have to do is figure out how this would work as far as how to promote ahead of the time to arrange people to get in…
dougw over 6 years ago +8

This is an interesting topic to me and I have tried a few times on element14 to get collaborative projects off the ground. A couple of examples are: Vehicle Simulator - VTR / RTR The Spice of Pi Blog Doug…
neuromodulator over 6 years ago in reply to tariq.ahmad +7

I think we could allow members to participate as individuals too, but to be honest, I don't think that anyone with enough motivation would have trouble finding other members to form a team. Some members…

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tariq.ahmad over 6 years ago

It's still up for discussion on how to implement it. Most likely sometime early next year, if we can put a solid plan together we'll simply replace one of the monthly competitions with a team competition. That is the most likely scenario. In the meantime, any ideas are welcome. What we'll do is pore through your comments and try to implement something that makes sense and try to avoid any pitfalls that may have occurred when we've tried this in the past.
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neuromodulator over 6 years ago in reply to tariq.ahmad

What were those pitfalls? What was the name of the competition at that time?
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neuromodulator over 6 years ago in reply to tariq.ahmad

What were those pitfalls? What was the name of the competition at that time?
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tariq.ahmad over 6 years ago in reply to neuromodulator

When I brought this up this is what I was told. I have only been around since 2016 so this would be before my time. Looking through past dc (most likely area to look) its not apparent to me when this was tried. I will try to find more info from someone that was around then and get back to you. There aren't a lot of people that were around back when the community was formed so not a lot of people to ask but will try and get an answer for you.
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clem57 over 6 years ago in reply to tariq.ahmad

I am rattling my brain here, but I think it was a kind of mentor program... But I could be total off base.
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dougw over 6 years ago in reply to tariq.ahmad

I wasn't around at the beginning, but I remember a couple of team contests:

Design for a Cause Challenge: Education Team Prize

Bluetooth Unleashed Design Challenge: University Team Prize

There may have been others, but the ones I remember were all student teams.
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