Stacy L ChinFounder, KeepYourEquity · I get the government to write you checks

Find Innovation Challenges Online: Win Cash and Credibility! #shorts

17 Dec 2025 · 0 min

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In this concise instructional video, Stacy Chin guides viewers on how to locate and engage with innovation and prize challenges. She highlights specific platforms such as xprizechallenge.gov, MIT Solve, Mass Challenge, and various university or corporate contests. Stacy emphasizes the importance of customizing pitches to match each competition’s impact criteria. She outlines the non‑monetary benefits of participation—including feedback, networking, and pitch practice—and notes the potential monetary prize and credibility boost for winners.

So if you want to get started, explore platforms like xprizechallenge.gov for US governmental challenges, MIT Solve, Mass Challenge, which is a zero-equity accelerator with prize money, as well as university or corporate-sponsored contests. Make sure to tailor your pitch to the competition's impact criteria. And if you don't win even, you'll gain feedback, connections, and opportunities to practice your pitch. But if you do win, you might walk away with a nice cash prize and big credibility.