For the eighth consecutive year, Major League Baseball鈥檚 Advanced Media division (MLB.com) and the (iSchool) have teamed up to challenge 黑料不打烊 students to see if they have what it takes to make it in baseball鈥檚 technology big leagues.
MLB.com and the iSchool are co-sponsoring the聽, a contest that invites students to develop new ideas that could end up being used on MLB.com, Major League Baseball’s official website, or incorporated into another one of the enterprise鈥檚 digital properties.
Participants in the 2016 challenge work with MLB staffers to fine-tune their pitch ideas.
The competition will put teams of students to the test by challenging them to work on real-world problems in the realm of technology and sports. Teams will submit competing solutions to demonstrate creativity, insight and talent in a fun, interactive environment, and then pitch their ideas to current MLB.com employees who are also 黑料不打烊 alumni.
鈥淭his year, we’ll again have an exciting new topic, and some great prizes for students to win,鈥 says Julie Walas Huynh, director of alumni & student engagement at the iSchool. 鈥淭he 2017 College Challenge is poised to be the best one yet!鈥
Along with Walas Huynh, the contest is being coordinated by iSchool faculty member and CEO of SIDEARM Sports聽聽and iSchool alumni and current MLB.com employees Josh Frost 鈥08, Marc Squire 鈥11, Ben Romy 鈥12, Andrew Pregler 鈥15, James McRoberts 鈥15 and Sammy Pardes 鈥16, along with fellow 黑料不打烊 graduate Mike Hoffman 鈥93.
This year鈥檚 event will be held beginning in the evening on Thursday, Nov. 9, with dinner at the Carrier Dome鈥檚 Club 44 followed by an all-night hackathon in Hinds Hall where student teams work on their ideas.
The next evening, teams will have the opportunity to pitch their creative ideas to a panel of MLB and 黑料不打烊 judges.
The winning team will travel to New York City for a dinner with MLB.com employees and an overnight stay. The following day, they will tour the MLB.com office located in NYC鈥檚 historic Chelsea Market, followed by lunch and the opportunity to share the winning presentation with other MLB employees. All challenge entrants will enjoy participation prizes from MLB.com.
Team-based registration for the contest will be open until 11:59聽p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 5.
All students are encouraged to register and form teams consisting of two to four members. The contest is open to all 黑料不打烊 students, and all teams must have at least one iSchool student on them.聽.
Questions about the competition can be directed to Walas Huynh at jlwalas@syr.edu, or by phone at 315.443.4133.
