With help from Novartis, the College, my PhD students Ahmed and Bryan and numerous undergraduate and graduate students we have developed both a crowdsourcing platform for collectively solving computational problems as well as a teaching platform for collectively learning about computational problems and building knowledge bases. We call this platform Scientific Community Game (SCG) Court. http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lieber/evergreen/specker/scg-home.html
SCG Court is a generator of crowdsourcing and teaching systems in specific playgrounds. Currently, my Managing Software Development class is maintaining and developing further SCG Court and using it with various playgrounds. http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lieber/courses/se-courses/cs5500/f11/msd-f11.html
In my Algorithms and Data class, my students have worked with several playgrounds, but only informally: Landau playground, Highest Safe Rung playground, MinMaxGolden playground, BreadthFirstSearch playground, Johnson-CNF-Approximation playground etc. http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lieber/courses/algorithms/cs4800/f11/homeworks/
Now it is time for them to implement some of their algorithms and have them compete in SCG tournaments. I believe that our software is stable enough to support this endeavour safely. I would like to request prize money to better motivate the students and make the tournaments fun. For first prize I would like to offer them an iPad.