Challenges

## Contests

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* Wikiversity:Mascot contest

## Challenges & prizes

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* $3,700 Social Sciences and System Theory Article Writing Competition

Registration deadline: 09/30/2009

* Open Architecture Challenge

Registration begins: 09/12/2007
Submission deadline: 01/15/2008

* Google Lunar X-Prize \- $20 to $25 Million for sending a robot to the moon

Due date to win whole prize is December 31st 2012.
Due date to win 15 million is December 31st 2014

* w: N-Prize \- ~10,000 sterling to launch a ~10-20g satelite into a orbit and have it tracked in orbit of Earth 9 times on a buget of about ~1000 sterling - Ends around ~19th September 2011

## See also

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* w:Methuselah Mouse Prize
* w:Hydrogen prize

## External links

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* June 2008 Space-elevator 4 Million dollars for what looks like a few different competitions
* $500,000 for speeding up airport security
* X-Prize.org
* Netflix Prize
* Amazon $100,000 startup challenge
* Light racers
* Space elevator 2010
* Challenge X
* NASA Centennial Challenges
* Google $10 million Android challenge (building mobile software applications)
* Unlock the Value \- Funding and 10 million dollar prize for developing better ways to extract silver from silica ore
* List of challenges at Fellowforce
* 500,000 prize for improving airport security
* Grand Challenges Explorations \- $100,000 dollar grant
* California Clean Tech Competitions
* Semantic Hacker 1 million dollar challenge
* (2008) Saltire-prize \- $20 million for renewable energy in the ocean
* (2008) Archon Genomics $10 million X-prize
* (2008) Lighting Prize \- up to $20 million dollars to develop solid state lighting