The Pentagon announced today that they will award a nice cash prize to the first person that enters GPS coordinates of 10 weather balloons hidden across the United States.

The goal of the challenge, which isn’t the first run by DARPA (the Pentagon’s Research Agency), is to measure how quickly people are able to work together to complete a task using all the wonders of the internet.

Facebook and Twitter apps are in the works to help spread word of a balloon sighting.

For complete information about the challenge see https://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/default.aspx

And while the chance to win some extra cash would be cool totally, unbelievably awesome (!!), we at Wired Wisconsin will be really interested to hear the results because of the challenge’s requirement of using technology to collaborate to win.

Wired Wisconsin is committed to working together with individuals, businesses, and organizations to better utilize technologies like the internet for education, collaboration, and activation.

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