Last month we held our company kick off where all 200+ of our employees from all around the world gathered here in Austin for meetings to get set for the upcoming year. One of the highlights of the three days was the 4th annual Lombardi Science Fair.
The official program and ballot.
Each year, people are given a couple of weeks during work time to work on a project that extends the base platform of Blueprint or Teamworks in some cool new way. As the official Science Fair rules state: “Anyone at Lombardi can enter… all you have to do is think up a project, register the project on the wiki page build the project, and show up ready to pitch your project on January 27!”
Two of the four winners, Scott and Allison and MC Phil previewing the grand prize.
This year there were close to 40 projects and awards were given in three different categories as well as one project that was picked as “Best in Show.” The winners received iPod Nanos and the Best in Show was the recipient of $1,000 in cold hard cash. Not only that, but all of the winners will be show cased at Lombardi’s upcoming customer event, Driven.
The Fair commences.
Everyone Wins
The real cool thing for customers, Lombardi and the entrants is that a lot of these out-o’-the-box projects find their way into the products over the coming year.
This was my first time at Science Fair and I was really impressed with, given the size of Lombardi, how elaborate the whole shebang was. Nice way to keep innovation pumping.
Pau for now…
Craig pitching his innovation.
Posted by Barton George 
