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The Beyond the Box Digitization Competition will award $1 million to the person or team who creates a technology that increases the speed and accuracy of digitization of a drawer of insect specimens and their associated data. The competition is a joint project of the U.S. National Science Foundation and the American Institute of Biological Sciences.

National Science Foundation

Total Cash Prizes Offered: $1,000,000
Type of Challenge: Scientific
Partner Agencies | Non-federal: American Institute of Biological Sciences
Submission Start: 12/05/2014 12:00 AM ET
Submission End: 09/04/2015 12:00 AM ET

This challenge is externally hosted.

You can view the challenge details here: http://beyondthebox.aibs.org