This multilevel, multidisciplinary data science competition for BOTH academics and practitioners is intended to reduce the number of homeless youth, improve the foster care process, and encourage healthy family lives. 

This competition includes two phases, where Round 1 (made up of teams of 2-4 individuals) submit a video of their Proposed Approach to solve the stated business / community problem, walking through how they would develop, run, and apply their proposed data science solutions. Teams advancing to the Finalist Round (Round 2) will have access to the identified data and will develop model/s using authorized tools of their choice to help answer the questions from our data sponsor / nonprofit clients.

This form is for the submission of Round 1 and is due by midnight on February 22nd. Finalists will be announced via email on February 26th.