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NIC X-Labs

Submit a challenge

Bring X-Labs a problem worth solving.

Tell us what you're working on. The team reads every submission and reaches back within a few days.

What makes a viable challenge?

The best challenges give a team real people to learn from. If yours checks these, it's ready.

  • A real beneficiary

    Identifiable people who feel the problem and can talk to a team.

  • A problem sponsor

    Someone who lives the problem and stays in the room with the team all semester.

  • Discoverable

    The team can actually reach the people affected to learn from them.

  • Scoped and mission-aligned

    Small enough for one semester, and it matters to North Idaho.

One or two paragraphs is plenty. What's the problem?

Budget, data, people, space, anything that could help.