This challenge is about acquiring skills that can help you advance in your careers, startups, or work. It's about learning hands-on IBM analytic tools.  We hope you participate just for the joy of it, but we will provide a small cash prize as an incentive.

The workshop on Thursday evening should get you started with the tools that are needed to develop your application.  

All solutions should be hosted in Bluemix. Make sure to register to the free trial: http://ibm.biz/Meetup_Toronto

In addition during the weekend you can:

• Review the lab materials hosted at: https://ibm.biz/analyticsmaterials
• Review these courses in BigDataUniversity.com:  

              Introduction to NoSQL and DBaaS

              Introduction to Data Analysis using R

• Review these webinars: https://cloudant.com/resources/webinars/recordings/
• Use the challengePost Discussion tab (forum) to help each other.  The organizers/mentors will also be monitoring that forum during the weekend

After you have developed your solution, post in the discussion forum (discussions tab) the following:

- URL of your application that works and is running on Bluemix.

- URL to your code (GitHub, DevOps)

- URL to a video describing your solution and the main parts of your code.

• Quality of Idea
  Includes creativity, originality, and “wow” factor of the idea
• Implementation of Idea
  Includes how well the idea was executed by the developer and the extent to which Bluemix, NodeRed and Cloudant were used.
• Potential Impact
  Includes the relevance and potential impact of the solution to a real life problem