A couple reasons, but not a ton to do with the contest itself, mostly limited by my capacity at the moment.
One is that I’ve recently been talking to more high schoolers about becoming more involved in EA and I think a lot of the general contests can be intimidating, so a student-focused contest would be helping keep the contest a bit more equal. I think that problem could be fixed with a tier system within the contest, but I’m currently working on my own and don’t have a ton of capacity. Which breeds into the second reason, which is that I plan to be working on a broader scale contest coordination project soon. So, I figured I’d try this as student centered first and see if it’s a good way to do outreach, then if it is I can do it on a larger scale and tiered systems with more support and higher prizes.
Why limit it to students? I’m more interested in the submissions that the submitters.
A couple reasons, but not a ton to do with the contest itself, mostly limited by my capacity at the moment.
One is that I’ve recently been talking to more high schoolers about becoming more involved in EA and I think a lot of the general contests can be intimidating, so a student-focused contest would be helping keep the contest a bit more equal. I think that problem could be fixed with a tier system within the contest, but I’m currently working on my own and don’t have a ton of capacity. Which breeds into the second reason, which is that I plan to be working on a broader scale contest coordination project soon. So, I figured I’d try this as student centered first and see if it’s a good way to do outreach, then if it is I can do it on a larger scale and tiered systems with more support and higher prizes.