The removal of all requirements for Season 20 certainly unleashed a creative wave across the community.
There were a record 62 applications for the new season - 26 as Teaching Teams and 36 as individual Challengers.
The quality of applications was generally very high - particularly among the Teaching Teams.
This has made the selection process even more difficult this season.
We usually have six communities or teams to run alongside the Crypto Academy. However as we had so many extremely good applications we have expanded that number as an experiment for this season to 15.
The majority of the 15 chosen are Teaching Teams. These may have more select audiences than the general challenges of previous seasons - but with the larger number, and the wide range of topics, there will definitely be something for everyone.
Steemit Engagement Challenge - Season 20
The Teaching Teams and Challengers selected for Season 20 are…
@alejos7ven (Venezuela) - Introduction to Programming
@alejos7ven/a-basic-and-friendly-programming-course-or-steemit-engagement-challenge-application@anailuj1992 (Venezuela) - Children
@anailuj1992/application-for-steemit-engagement-challenge-season-20-or-individual-challenger-aventuras-divertidas-con-los-ninos@analp (Venezuela) & @naka05 (Venezuela) - Crochet
@analp/application-for-teaching-team-crochet-basico-crochet-team@dexsyluz (Venezuela) & @aaliarubab (Pakistan) - Hematology
@dexsyluz/application-for-teaching-team-basic-hematology-healthy-team@dove11 (India) & @aviral123 (India) - Business
@dove11/application-steemit-engagement-challenge-for-season-20-or-dev-s-teaching-team@kouba01 (Tunisia) & @starrchris (Nigeria) - Dynamic Website Development
@kouba01/application-for-sec-s20-teaching-team-dynamic-devs-team@lhorgic (Nigeria) - Graphic Design
@lhorgic/application-for-sec-s20-teaching-team-graphic-design-teachingteam@lunasilver (Venezuela) - Sewing : Pattern Making
@lunasilver/postulacion-para-challenger-individual-como-docente-de-la-temporada-20-del-sec@mohammadfaisal (Pakistan) - Flutter Mobile Application Development
@mohammadfaisal/application-for-teaching-team-as-flutter-mobile-dev-team-for-season-20@nahela (Venezuela) & @karianaporras (Venezuela) - Cooking
@nahela/n1x8a-application-for-teaching-team-gastronomy-team@ngoenyi (Nigeria) & @genomil (Venezuela) - Fitness Training
@ngoenyi/application-for-season-20-teaching-team-steemfit-teaching-team@sergeyk (Ukraine) - Introduction to Programming
@sergeyk/application-for-steemit-engagement-challenge-season-20-or-individual-challenger@simonnwigwe (Nigeria) & @josepha (Nigeria) - Spreadsheets
@simonnwigwe/application-for-teaching-team-for-steemit-engagement-challenge-season-20-or-spreadsheet@wakeupkitty (Netherlands) & @inspiracion (Venezuela) - Creative Writing
@wakeupkitty/teaching-team-challenging@xkool24 (Nigeria) & @mainuna (Bangladesh) - Agriculture
@xkool24/application-for-teaching-team-or-or-steemit-engagement-challenge-season-20-or-or-from-teamagro
These will be joined by the Crypto Academy to make 16 in total.
Please would all those selected confirm acceptance in a comment below and include their contact details (Discord / Telegram).
All Teaching Teams and Challengers should post their Week 1 course/challenge post by Sunday, September 8th. Season 20 will then begin on Monday, September 9th, 2024.
Each Teaching Team post should include weekly assignment tasks for students following the course.
Teaching Teams should aim to check and grade the submitted assignment posts within 24 hours.
The emphasis of the comments from the Teaching Teams should very much concentrate on what the student did well in their post, and also most importantly how they could improve their posts - particularly highlighting if they have misunderstood any of the learning points of that week’s course assignment.
The posts should be awarded a grade marked out of 10 according to how well they have completed the assignment tasks.
Posts should be checked for plagiarism and AI use but that should only be a footnote in the comment. Checking for club status etc does not need to be included in the comment.
Challengers should follow similar guidelines in their moderating comments.
The comments will be rewarded by sc01/02 according to how well they have followed these guidelines.
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Each week we would like all Teaching Teams and Challengers to make a post announcing the five people who have produced the best responses to the assignments and challenges.
The selection of the five should be based solely on the quality of their post. Number of comments is no longer a factor to be considered.
We have reduced the selected winners to five instead of the seven mentioned in the previous post because of the much greater number of Teaching Teams and Challengers. Likewise the separate selection of comments has been dropped for now.
All the weekly winners, as well as the weekly announcement posts, will receive extra prize votes from @steemcurator01.
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We were delighted that there were so many applications for Season 20, and we are very excited about how the Engagement Challenge is evolving.
It has taken a while but we very much hope people will embrace this new format for the Challenge.
The emphasis on the Teaching Teams is deliberate as we believe this could become a USP for Steem.
Being able to take high quality courses in a wide range of subjects for free, with the added possibility of being rewarded for your learning endeavors, must be a unique selling point for the platform.
We know of nowhere else that offers this - so please use your other social media to talk about it and invite people to come and take a free course in cooking, crochet, business, programming, graphic design, fitness, hematology, pattern making, creative writing, spreadsheets…
There is definitely something for everyone.
Try some of the courses with less participants - your chances of rewards from sc01/02 will be much higher.
Learn something new and enrich your life with Steem…
Thank you
The Steemit Team