Pittsburgh Innovates; RideTheCity.com
Pittsburgh Innovates is an “ideas contest” where the best two ideas will receive up to $10,000 and $20,000 in funding, respectively. And RideTheCity.com is entered into the contest. Read about it directly from the RideTheCity blog, found here. This is a big deal because it’s a real chance for RideTheCity to start expanding, and we can play an important role in that effort.
Each of us is allowed to rate each participating project every day. I’ve already checked out a few of the other projects, and some seem kind of cool, but none as cool or innovative as RideTheCity.
Here’s a blurb on the contest from the contest home page:
Submit your Innovation. Show a connection to Pittsburgh. Get Votes. Win up to $20,000. That’s right Pittsburgh! It is your turn to show us what you’ve got!
The future is being invented right here in Pittsburgh. Amazing innovations in medical devices, software, robots, and polymers occur here everyday, but there hasn’t been a place for people to share their ideas and achievements. The Pittsburgh Innovates contest is here to allow people to show off technologies with a connection to Pittsburgh. For those of you without an innovation, but with an interest in Pittsburgh, can see what is happening and rank your favorite submissions.
Your rankings decide Pittsburgh Innovates 2008’s 10,000 dollar winner. A panel of distinguished judges from Pittsburgh and beyond will decide Pittsburgh Innovates 2008’s 20,000 dollar winner.
RideTheCity’s connection to Pittsburgh is co-founder Jordan Andersen, who attended Carnegie-Mellon University (wiki), which is located about three miles from downtown Pittsburgh.
The contest started a couple of weeks ago, and it runs through October 26. Let’s vote RideTheCity up! Below is a short screencast showing how to vote every day. And don’t worry about voting every day—you can actually rate each project up to once a day:
How many times can I rank an innovation?
You can rank each innovation once per day.
If you’d like to see the full-size version of this screencast, click here.
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