Kukui Cup Competition Design

In my ICS 414 course, as a class we will be implementing a site for the upcoming dorm energy competition in the Fall semester this year. For the first few weeks of this semester, myself along with John, Kelli, Scott, Wing, and Shanah, will be working together to design the overall competition and create a mockup version of the site using Balsamic, a tool used to create mockups of websites.
We began with creating a list of tasks that we would need to complete in order to meets the goals of the project. We all looked resources which would help us to decide which tasks would be important when we are trying to make the competition as effective as it can be to reducing energy usage. This is a list of tasks that I thought would be necessary to achieve the goals of our subproject.

- continue research to so that we can figure out what is the most effective ways to get students to reduce their energy use
- look at what methods are the most effective for educating the students about energy conservation
- find the best ways to provide energy data to the students which would be meaningful to them and help them to see the results of their changes
- make a list of rules for the competition
- create a point system or another system which would be the basis of the competition
- design a system where students can make pledges to make certain
- create a list of incentives which would encourage the students
- research into extending the system into other sites/social networks such as Twitter and Facebook
- create mockups of the site, using Balsamic, which would include all the features necessary to make it successful
- research what should be in the site through research and looking at other school's programs

Link to page with resources.