Contest Management System

MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge

Overview

A global challenge is not easy to pull off. The MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge needed a marketing site and contest management system to support this aggressive goal and who better than your friends at Bowst to get it done.

Leveraging the internal MIT teams experience from the previous two years, we defined a feature set as a baseline to help define all functionality, while focusing on ways to improve the overall experience.

Mission

Support the first year of the Global Competition
Increase number of completed applications

Front End

Redux with React
RxJS and Reselect Architecture
D3.JS for Data Visualization

Back End

Django/Python
PostgreSQL
WordPress

Hosting

Pantheon
AWS

Features

Ability to manage multiple events and support future years
IIC Custom Dashboard supporting multiple roles allowing in-depth progress review and oversight at every challenge milestone phase at every region
WordPress synchronization to simplify the management of Judges
User management for Judges and Outreach Partners

Custom voting Rubric
Question management
Judge specific dashboard to encourage and remind them to complete their application review
Multistep application submission management to increase the number of completed applications
Real-Time Analytics in Dashboard

Admin Dashboard

Everything you need in one place.

We addressed the pain-points defined in our discovery and created an intuitive and informative dashboard to help the internal team manage the 2018 challenge.

Messaging Center

Simplified outbound emails integrated with MailChimp.

Status Review

Simplified application and judging progress to help ensure contest milestones are met.