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Welcome to the Scripps Innovation Challenge! The challenges listed here are related to the media industry, but studies show that the most innovative solutions often come from people outside a given industry, or from a hybrid team of industry and non-industry people. Even (actually especially!) if you are not a communications student, we encourage you to browse the challenges and register.

When you register, you can find other people to team up with, and you’ll hear about development workshops where a mentor will work with you and other students to help you sharpen your idea and help you understand what you will need for a competitive solution. Registration does not commit you to anything. It just helps us contact you directly about challenge news and events.

Below you will find links for 20 challenges; each link leads to a description of the challenge. We have posted the requirements for the final deliverables in the PDF below the challenge itself.

By the submission deadline of March 13, you will need to prepare the set of materials that the judges can use to evaluate your idea. For this initial review, you will not have the opportunity to present to the judges, so your materials must give the judges all the information you want them to have. If you are selected as a finalist, you will have the opportunity to develop your submission further, and to present your final pitch live to a panel of judges.

Make sure your submission addresses any specific white paper sections mentioned in the challenge requirements list. For all challenges, the following items are required:

- A white-paper that fully describes your idea. Make sure to point out what sets your idea apart from other approaches (what is your innovation?).
- A one-page executive summary that concisely describes your idea.
- A presentation that walks the judges through your idea.
- An intellectual property statement. In this statement you will certify that you own the rights to all materials you have submitted, and you give Ohio University the right to post your submission on a publicly accessible web site. A template will be available on the web site once it has passed OU legal review.