Two relevant challenges announced recently that are placing emphasis on prize-based innovation:
DEBUT Challenge (for undergraduate students):
![The NIBIB DEBUT Challenge [image courtesy NIBIB].](http://www.cccblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/nibib.jpg "The NIBIB DEBUT Challenge [image courtesy NIBIB].")
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) has announced a competition — called the Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Challenge – for undergraduate students to foster the design and development of innovative diagnostic and therapeutic devices and technologies that address unmet health and clinical needs. According to the DEBUT website (emphasis added):
NIBIB’s mission is to improve health by leading the development and accelerating the application of biomedical technologies. The goals of the challenge are 1) to provide undergraduate students valuable experiences such as working in teams, identifying unmet clinical needs, and designing, building and debugging solutions for such open-ended problems; 2) to generate novel, innovative tools to improve healthcare, consistent with NIBIB’s purpose to support research, training, the dissemination of health information, and other programs with respect to biomedical imaging and engineering and associated technologies and modalities with biomedical applications; and 3) to highlight and acknowledge the contributions and accomplishments of undergraduate students.
There are clear opportunities for undergraduate computer scientists to partner with colleagues in bioengineering and other disciplines to pursue entries under one of three categories:
» Read more: DEBUT, Gig City™: Pushing the Envelope With Prize-Based Innovation
