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Designing technical assistance that supports innovation and innovators

How the Rural Tech Project has created time and space for convening, collaboration, and connection.

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Driving development of upskilling and reskilling initiatives

How the Rethink Adult Ed Challenge spurred new high-quality pre-apprenticeship programs — at scale.

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Designing a national challenge to inspire transformational STEM learning experiences

How CTE Mission: CubeSat brought space missions to high schools.

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Incubating a national cybersecurity teacher professional development initiative

How CTE CyberNet strengthened cybersecurity education in high schools.

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Designing for speed and urgency

How the KidneyX COVID-19 Kidney Care Challenge used open innovation to address a crisis.

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Redefining fast, accurate drug detection

How the Opioid Detection Challenge used open innovation to advance new hardware solutions.

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Using open innovation to source unexpected solutions

How MagQuest embraced the benefits of prize competitions to meet a mission-critical challenge.

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From problem to prototype

Empowering patients and physicians to make informed decisions.

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