 Good morning, everyone. Just give us a few seconds on our end when we go ahead and get started and walk you through everything today. There's Monique and Monique, I'll hand it off to you. This is your show to run today. Let me know if you need anything. But no, just a couple of seconds to just pull up the PowerPoint and let, you know, stragglers come on in. Awesome. Can everyone hear me or at least my co-host. Can you all hear me? Yes. Okay, great. Welcome fully registered teams to the XPRIZ Digital Learning Challenge. Our second webinar will be focusing on completing the technical submission. Thank you so much for joining us. We are happy to have you. This webinar will be very brief, but we will touch upon some very important details as you work towards completing your technical submission. You have been muted for this webinar. You are more than welcome to ask questions via the chat or Q&A function. We will reserve time at the end to get to your questions. And I ask that my co-host, you know, just monitor questions. I may not be able to see it as I'm giving the presentation. If we can't answer your question today, we will follow up with you hopefully pretty soon. We understand that, you know, time is of the essence, but we want to make sure that we get the information that you need and that is accurate. And if you have any questions after this webinar, feel free to email us digitallearningatexpris.org. I believe you will also receive a copy of this recording with the closed caption incorporated. Hopefully the turnaround time won't be too long, but we hope to get that to you very soon. Our agenda for today, just going to reintroduce ourselves just briefly so you know who's part of the core team and our roles. There may be people on the call who wasn't with us last month, so we're happy to reintroduce ourselves. We're going to just briefly refresh you on the challenge to make sure you're in the right place and understand what the requirements and expectations are for the teams. And then we're going to take a surface level dive into the technical submission and how you can access that on pop, and then at the end we'll reserve time. So we're just going to take a couple seconds to introduce ourselves before we hop into the refresher. So I'll go ahead and start. Hello everyone, my name is Dr. Monique Golden. I am the technical lead on the XPRIZE Digital Learning Challenge. My role is to support you all and the judging components, particularly making sure that you are turning in technical documents like the tech submission, making sure that you understand fully the competition expectations and that we execute with fidelity. And on the judging and I work with the judging panel closely to ensure that they are, you know, in managing the judging and scoring process. We're viewing your technical submissions and doing that down select process. I'll hand it over to my teammate Shashi, and then we'll conclude with Devin. Hi everyone, welcome to this webinar. My name is Shashi Rai and the community lead for this particular challenge. So all your queries and I'll read the point of contact for all your teams for any, any queries concerns, any information that you need. If you do reach out to me at digital learning at XPRIZE.org, and we'll be happy to help you. Thank you. I pass it on to Devin to introduce himself. Yeah, thank you, Shashi. Thanks Monique. Good morning. Good afternoon to everyone, depending on where you are excited that you all are officially part of the competition now. As I mentioned, my name is Devin Cropman. I'm the program lead. So I kind of see all the different operational aspects of this competition. One quick note before Monique jumps back in is Shashi mentioned it in her email last week. But we will be setting up a Slack channel for everyone in the coming hours and maybe day. Hopefully get it out later today or tomorrow. And there'll be another space where you all can ask questions of us directly and we'll respond to those and they'll increase transparency among the cohort of this competition. So thank you and excited for today Monique it's yours. Thank you teammates. We'll move on. So just to give you a refresher on what this challenge is all about the digital learning challenge is a $1 million challenge. We're focusing on identifying effective learning tools and processes that approved learning outcomes. This is a, you know, component of technology that is incorporated into this prize that you all are, you know, develop as you all are developing your technical submissions. We want to know how you plan to incorporate your platforms and technology into your studies. Here is our timeline the components out in yellow are completed. So as a fully registered team your next objective is to turn in the technical submission by December 1 at 1159 p.m. The specific standard time that's very important that you, excuse me, you mark your calendars so that you are submitting within the PST time zone. Once you submit your completed technical submission it will be screened by our team and then it will be complete and full full submissions will be given to our judges where they will down select the teams that move on to the pilot study. We will wrap up in July of 2022, and then we will conclude our prize in March of 2023. The winning team will statement as you have seen on the website in our top technical documents, such as the guidelines of rules and regulations, you will minimally demonstrate your ability to conduct an RCT or quasi experimental design, using any meaningful and substantive intervention. You will systematically replicate that experiment at least five times and no more than 30 days, and you will replicate the experiment within at least three distinct demographics. This is the general winning team will statement I recognize that there are different expectations and the pilot phase, but overall if you, as you are working and competing in this competition, this is what we anticipate the team who will be awarded the grand prize will do. There are milestone prizes a part of this competition we like to award teams who are moving forward in the competition. And in this competition we have a finalist prize for the up to five teams that are selected in the demonstration phase. Those teams will split the $250,000 finalist prize. And then there are runner up prizes of 250,000 which will go to the second place team, and the grand prize team will win $500,000. The finalists demonstrate their solutions ability to meet or exceed the goals of the challenge, and the judging panel will award that that price to that team. Now for the technical submission. The technical submission is a form for you to provide all the detailed information about your team and your proposed solution. The technical submission is broken down to three parts. The first part we are collecting essential information team information like name, the leader website affiliation. If there were any changes between the team questionnaire that you submitted back in September. And now you will let us know in that component. In that part of the technical submission, what changes have been made to your team. The second part deals with your study design and your hypothesis, you know, what methodologies are you anticipating to use. Who do you want to deploy your study to what populations are you interested in what schools are you interested in. And then in part three, you're going to talk about your technology we want to know more about the UX and the features, the functionality, how does it work. You will be invited to share mockups of your technology or provide free access to the judges so that they can learn more about your tool hands on the purpose of the technical submission is for you to demonstrate that you understand the is very important that you, you know, respond to the items on the technical submission, and take it as if it is your proposal, because the judges only have a limited amount of time to review your submissions and you want to make sure they have as much information as possible, barring that you stick to the word limit, such that they can understand your approach to this prize. We want to know if your team is a fit right we want to make sure that you have, you know, not only just an understanding but that you recognize that you know the technology is important and the technology is incorporated into the prize in a way that is meaningful and will help us answer those questions. So we want to know more or at least reach the objectives of the process. And then finally, for X price to provide an overview of the judging and review review and scoring. The technical submission is what we use to downslit to the up to 10 teams that will move on to the pilot phase and I'm just going to move our photo out the way. Okay, great. And as I mentioned the winning team will statement focuses on the, the, the team who will when overall what are the expectations before the pilot phase there are nuances and differences. We want to carry out a minimum of a one month long pilot experiment in the education setting in the United States. So make sure in your technical submission you are, you know, it's clear to the judges that you have a study that is designed to last at least 30 days, or a calendar month as you, you know, plan it out. We want to conduct at least one experiment and at least one replication with at least one learner demographic for the pilot phase of the study. So make sure you are clear and you are, you know, in describing like what that community will be. And what environment you will like to conduct that study and, you know, how many experiments you plan to run but at least one experiment. And more importantly, or not more importantly, equally important we have some guidelines around what the technology at a minimum should do your platform or technology will need to collect the data needed to analyze the experiment, which includes could include the indicator of treatment or control measures of the outcome variable of interest and any other independent variables that might be useful to increase precision of impact estimate, or describe implementation. So what that generally means is that we want to understand through your application how you're going to integrate or how your tool is integrated into this into your study design, but also the outcomes of the prize as well. So this information is included in the rules and regulations so make sure you're reading the technical documents. I'm going to go pretty closely so that you understand what is being asked of teams. Here are some important dates. As I've mentioned, we've kind of cleared the team registration window so as of October 15, you were able to view a PDF of the technical on pop under resources. As of October 31 that form has become live, you should be able to start working if you if you want to work directly on pop our recommendation is to write your answers on a separate Word document or Google Doc, and then fill in the the technical submission in one setting that is a way to make sure that if something happens you don't lose your progress working directly in the form. December 1 is our excuse me this December 1 is our deadline. Be sure I'm able to go back. Okay, December 1 is the deadline for the technical submission and attachments. So in those spaces on the technical form where you're invited to submit diagrams mock of anything that will help. Not anything, but any of the request documentation that will help the judges fully understand your technology platform or your study design or methodology if you've published your work. Feel free to include a downloadable version of your manuscript to the technical submission on those attachments including the form will be due at 1159pm Pacific standard time. So to get to the technical submission, you will log on to pop you'll click on the challenge under activities I want to make sure I'm clear you will click on activities and you'll see the text submission there. If you encounter any issues with pop, you are welcome to email us at popsupportatxprice.org we asked that if you were to email pop that you see see digital learning so that we are kept in the loop on, you know, issues or or team concerns regarding pop. So that was a nice quick webinar we don't like to keep you, you know, keep you too long just kind of give you the important information and then open up the floor for questions. So I will, I see we have two in the chat and two in the Q&A. Oh, just someone saying hello, hello, Nia. Hello Lamar. Thank you for joining us. Luke has a question. What counts as a study that last 30 days is a study that has one hour long session on day one and in 30 days later an hour long. Great question so we are leaning on the teams to determine, you know, how you want to design your 30 day study if you believe based on your hypothesis, excuse me your hypothesis or your your objectives for your study that would determine how you want to, you know, manage your time. My interpretation is that intervention doesn't necessarily have to take place every day if that's what you're saying or dosage doesn't have to be every single day, but the duration of your study from start to finish whether you're doing like a prepost for example, you want that to wrap up or at least last for a minimum of 30 days. The time to deploy your replication has to occur within 30 days after you wrapped up your pilot study. So your pilot study could be, you know, three months long, within 30 days after the conclusion of that pilot study, you will need to execute or commence your replication. Is that is that clear? I can't see but hopefully I've answered your question but how you want to kind of manage that duration of time is up to you, but it has to be a minimum of 30 days. And you have until July 2022 to manage that that window of time for the pilot phase. Did I miss anyone's questions? Is there anything in the chat? There's a few questions that I typed answers to. So the first one was about how many teams moved confirming the number of teams that moved to the pilot phase we confirmed that that is up to 10 and then the follow up to that was how long after the technical submission deadline will teams learn about whether or not they're proceeding and I said that is around mid to late January 2022. Yes, that is the goal. That is the goal. Yes, and it's up to 10 teams, correct. And then we just got a new question. Can you, can your experimental design change between the pilot and demonstration phase? That is a good question. Let me get back to you. I want to say that teams will, let me say that teams will have to submit if you are one of the up to 10 teams that participates in the pilot phase, you will be requested to submit a technical submission for the demonstration phase and I believe I will confirm that that can you can use that technical submission to propose new ideas, you know. So let me make sure I can confirm that don't hold me to that but I do believe that there's an opportunity there because of course you're deploying it to more communities. You know, you might want to, you know, utilize a different approach so that would be my gut feeling, especially if you're doing more of replications, but we can confirm and get back to you. Can you, if that question was asking me to figure out what team or get a recording of who that that question came from. So pilot phase includes a pilot experiment and a replica, excuse me, replication and demonstration is five experimental replications. Yes, at least five replications, three communities for demonstration pilot phase, at least one experiment, at least one replication, one community. All right, we got a question about IRB is IRP approval necessary or is it possible to conduct the pilot study phase without approval. I'm going to answer this first question first. Um, for for this prize, the determination of IRB approval is we put that back on the teams. And in most cases, if you're working in a community of students who are minors, the, you know, the answer is generally yes, especially if you're using some of their educational data and need access to school districts and things like that. So we recognize that that can take some time. So we want you all to start at least thinking through as you're working on your technical submission, you know, how you might want to navigate that process and get that turned in. We do allow time for teams to turn in their IRB. You know, we recognize that that can take some time. Devin, do you want to chime in? Yeah, I mean, not not on this question specifically. But yes, the answer is yes, we do know that depending on your methodology and what communities you want to work with that the answer it depends. So that's something that we want the teams to make sure that they are accountable for and to to get the right answers on how they should proceed with that. And then the second question, what resources can we use to help us determine what approvals are necessary for a specific situation? Is that what is that one of the questions you want to chime in on or okay. I would say, can you send us an email I'd like to get a little bit more information about your question regarding the resources. Just to get a little bit more more of an understanding digital money and XPRIZE.org if you could send us the email. Thank you. Yeah. I was just going to answer Stephanie's question that came up in the Q&A which is, do individual team members need to have a profile and or account on pop to be part of the team. No, I mean, I don't think this is a requirement we're not you know we don't require. Sasha, you can correct me if I'm wrong but we don't we're not going to require that every individual team member has an account or profile. As long as the person the team leader the person who's going to submit the technical submission has access and account to do that to do that then that's all that matters. The other team members can just join in as you know a team member here only the team leads the name and email and you can keep is keep it as a one point of contact in the pop and the rest of the of your team members can join as a member. And then the person who asked the question about experimental design changing between the pilot and demonstration phase. Be sure to follow up with us via email so that we can once we confirm that answer. One thing I do want to add as kind of like a you know code of ethics for for teams and participants of our prizes. If you have a question, feel free to reach out to to the core team we are the core team for this prize. We don't encourage you reaching out to sponsors. We are kind of the, what we are the team that is responsible for the challenge. So if there's something that we think the sponsors should know about we are, we're happy to level it up to the sponsor and get their feedback if necessary. But we really want to make sure that all communication related to this prize is coming through us directly to Shashi, or through our digital learning email. And the flat channel that will have set up for you all so there are multiple ways to reach us just please make sure that you reach out to us directly. So if there are no additional questions, happy to see something jump in the chat. Can we have this gift that is currently being looped on this shared screen. You will have a copy of the PowerPoint but in terms of use or use usability of these marketing assets we access that you don't. I believe we will be sending out for the teams that move on in the competition they will get like a style guide on how to you know if you're, if you, if you're moving on and you want to like do a little press release not a little excuse me if you want to do a press release for your team if you are a chosen team in the pilot base, we have recommendations will not recommendation we have guidelines on how you are to utilize our marketing assets. So just hold off on utilizing anything XPRIZE until we kind of give you the green light. I'm very excited that you like our assets but let's hold off until we give you green light. Thank you. Awesome. If there are no additional questions we will give you some time back on your calendars and your your clocks. So any questions again digital Frank Frank got a hand raised. Hi Frank. Oh, did you handle down. Okay, no biggie. Yeah, reach out to us digital and XPRIZE.org we're grateful that you joined us be on the lookout for recording of this PowerPoint. Thank you all so much. Take care. Cheers Frank thanks so much. Thanks Monique. Thanks everyone.