Use data. Create Insights. Grow Business.

Businesses can thrive by maximizing the use of data. Colorado businesses can maximize their effectiveness, enhance reach, and increase accessibility by leveraging free publicly available data.

Build a data analytics tool or data-driven business application that provides Colorado businesses:

• meaningful insights for decision making,
• uses publicly and privately accessible data and
• addresses a current Colorado problem.

Sample problems to address may include but are not limited to:

Workforce

Energy

Water

Agriculture

Telecommunications/Fiber accessibility

Food Access

Daycare

Healthcare

Emergency/Pandemic support

• If you are a team, corporation, or nonprofit organization, all individual members must meet the eligibility requirements.
• You must be an individual legally residing in one of the fifty United States or the District of Columbia or you are a corporation, LLC, or other organization that is domiciled in the United States and properly formed at the time of entry.
• You must be fourteen years old or older. If you are under eighteen years old, you must identify yourself as a minor and complete the Go Code Colorado parent/guardian consent section of the Terms of Participation and Release form.
• An individual may join more than one team.

• Submissions may only be entered by a team. A team consists of at least one person.
• Teams entering the same submission in both tracks is not permitted.

• Sponsors, Mentors, and Judges cannot be a Go Code Colorado competitor.
• You must disclose any actual or potential conflicts of interest you have with: (a) as a sponsor or an employee of a sponsor; (b) employees or contractors of Go Code Colorado; (c) the Colorado Department of State; (d) the State of Colorado; (e) competition Judges, their immediate families (spouse, parents and step-parents, siblings and step-siblings, and children and step-children), and household members (people who share the same residence at least three months out of the year); (f) competition mentors, their immediate families, and household members.
• You may not be an employee or independent contractor of Go Code Colorado, the Colorado Department of State, the Business Intelligence Center, or the Offices of the Governor (including, but not limited to, the Office of Economic Development and International Trade and the Office of Information Technology).

• If you have participated in the Go Code Colorado Competition previously, you may participate again if you meet all of the other eligibility requirements.
• By participating in Go Code Colorado, you agree to any and all Official Competition Rules and procedures and understand and agree that the Judges’ decisions are final and binding on all matters related to the Go Code Colorado Competition.
• By participating in the Go Code Colorado Competition, you agree to adhere to these Official Competition Rules, the terms and restrictions provided herein, and signing a Go Code Colorado Release. By participating, participants further agree to Go Code Colorado’s Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy, available at gocode.colorado.gov.
• You have no right, power, or authority to bind Go Code Colorado, the Business Intelligence Center (BIC), the Colorado Department of State, and the State of Colorado to the fulfillment of any condition, contract, or obligation or to create any liability binding on Go Code Colorado, the Colorado Department of State, and the State of Colorado.
• Go Code Colorado reserves the right to disqualify any entry that is offensive, as determined by Go Code Colorado, in its sole discretion. 
• Go Code Colorado reserves the right to assess your eligibility and compliance with these Official Competition Rules at any point during the event series. If Go Code Colorado requires any assistance in order to assess your compliance, you must promptly provide that assistance. If you do not provide the requested assistance in a timely manner, or if Go Code Colorado has reason to believe that you are not complying with the Official Competition Rules, you may be disqualified, in Go Code Colorado’s sole discretion.
• Go Code Colorado reserves the right to modify the terms of these Official Competition Rules at any time in its sole and exclusive discretion without notice. All notifications and changes to these Official Competition Rules will be posted on gocode.colorado.gov.
• All programs associated with Go Code Colorado are subject to all applicable United States federal, state, and local laws and regulations.

• All materials submitted to Go Code Colorado must be in English or English-based programming languages.
• In creating their entry, participants must use at least one dataset that is publicly available on the Colorado Information Marketplace (CIM), which can be found at data.colorado.gov. In addition to at least one public dataset from CIM, participants may also use private data (with a valid, fully paid, and appropriate use license), public data that does not come from CIM, and open data.
• All entries created for the Go Code Colorado Competition should be written for the competition or specifically improved from an existing idea to compete in the competition.  This means that for the Application Track the web or mobile application was not commercially available before January 1, 2022. This means for the Analytics Track the analysis or research had not been published prior to January 1, 2022.
• All entries will be scored according to the Submission Judging.

• Participants must submit their Semi-Final entry by 1:00 PM Mountain Time on Monday April 25, 2022, no exceptions.
• Application Track Semi-Final Submission Materials must include:
  • A GitHub repository of code used in the application;
  • A video presentation file with narrated audio;
  • A summary document, maximum two pages that includes a maximum 10 word title and maximum 50 word description; 
  • A completed Semi-Final Submission Form; and
  • A completed and signed “TERMS OF PARTICIPATION, RELEASE, AND PARENTAL CONSENT FORM”, acceptable signatures include wet signatures and electronic signatures.
  • A completed Team Registration Form.
• Analytics Track Semi-Final Submission Materials must include:
  • Publicly available dashboard, simple application, interactive webpage, or white paper. Submissions should include analysis methods, statistics and math used, visualizations, findings, and recommendations;
  • Attached .zip file of any files or documents used to produce the analysis including but not limited to spreadsheets, documents, diagrams, images, or code;
  • A video presentation file with narrated audio;
  • A completed Semi-Final Submission Form.
  • A completed and signed “TERMS OF PARTICIPATION, RELEASE, AND PARENTAL CONSENT FORM”, acceptable signatures include wet signatures and electronic signatures.
  • A completed Team Registration Form.
• Changes to Semi-Final submissions made after 1:00 pm Mountain Time on Monday April 25, 2022 will not be reviewed by the Semi-Final Judges, no exceptions.
• Submissions may be used by Go Code Colorado for promotional or other purposes if deemed appropriate by the Go Code Colorado organization in its sole and exclusive discretion.

• All Finalist Teams must submit their entries for the Final Competition by 1:00 pm Mountain Time on Monday, May 16, 2022, no exceptions.
• All teams must use at least one dataset from the Colorado Information Marketplace (CIM).

Application Track

• The Finalist Teams in the Application Track must develop a market-relevant web or mobile application, and provide associated code in their designated repository. For Finalist Teams to be eligible to win an award at the Final Competition in the Application Track, the submission must be a minimum viable product (MVP). This means a product that is available for use by public users (or login/test flight information be provided with the final submission). 
• Application Track Final Submission Materials must include: 
  • A publicly accessible minimal viable product (MVP) application;
  • A GitHub repository of code used in the application;
  • A video presentation file with narrated audio;
  • A summary document, maximum two pages that includes a maximum 10 word title and maximum 50 word description;
  • A completed Final Submission Form;
  • A completed and signed “TERMS OF PARTICIPATION, RELEASE, AND PARENTAL CONSENT FORM”, acceptable signatures include wet signatures and electronic signatures.

Analytics Track

• Finalist teams in the Analytics Track must produce a completed analysis which includes all math and statistical analysis used, and should include visualizations. Submissions may be a dashboard, simple application, interactive webpage, or white paper. Finally, teams must provide associated code or other documentation in the .zip file included in the submission.
• Analytics Track Final Submission Materials must include:
  • Publicly available dashboard, simple application, interactive webpage, or white paper. Submissions should include analysis methods, statistics and math used, visualizations, findings, and recommendations;
  • Attached .zip file of any files or documents used to produce the analysis including but not limited to spreadsheets, documents, diagrams, images, or code;
  • A video presentation file with narrated audio;
  • A completed Final Submission Form.
  • A completed and signed “TERMS OF PARTICIPATION, RELEASE, AND PARENTAL CONSENT FORM”, acceptable signatures include wet signatures and electronic signatures.

• Judges, in their sole discretion, will select the winners of the Semi-Final Competition based on the judging criteria. A panel of judges (“Judges”), will be selected by Go Code Colorado organizers.
• On Monday, April 26, 2022 the Judges will choose twelve (12) Finalist Teams composed of six (6) teams from each track. Semi-Final submissions are judged against submissions of the same competition track. Competition track is defined at Semi-Final submission.
• The 12 Finalist Teams will move on to the next round of competition (the “Final Event”).
• Judges, in their sole discretion, will select the winners of the Final Competition based on the judging criteria as published on gocode.colorado.gov.

Scale:

Each scoring category will be given a 1-7 score and the weight will be used to calculate the total final score.

Criteria:

• Winners will be announced at the Final Competition Event on May 26th, 2022.
• The receipt of an award or benefit is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth by Go Code Colorado, the Business Intelligence Center (BIC), the Colorado Department of State, and the State of Colorado, including but not limited to, acceptance of its Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy, waivers, and Services Agreement with the State of Colorado, if applicable.
• Each of the winners of the Final Competition will receive a cash award; Winners from both Application and Analytics tracks will be awarded as follows: 1st place- $25,000, 2nd place- $10,000, 3rd place - $5,000. The odds of winning depend on the number of registered participants.