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MIT Solve: A Drupal platform for challenges and solvers
- Technical Lead, Developer
- $50,000 - $100,000
- Drupal
- https://solve.mit.edu/
MIT Solve matches people who have a hard problem with people who might work on it. We built the Drupal platform where those challenges, teams, and resources meet.
The job
MIT Solve runs open challenges on problems such as climate and learning. The site had to do more than describe the initiative. A challenge, a solver, and a resource had to be findable and connected. The public site is solve.mit.edu.
What we built
The platform is Drupal. Challenges, solver profiles, and the resources attached to them are structured content, so a visitor can move from a problem to the people working on it. Staff publish a new challenge without a new template for every one.
Outcomes
Solve has a site that behaves like the program: a challenge is a record, a team is a record, and the two can be found from each other.