How did the contest begin?
In 2005 Purdue University Philosophy student Daniel Poynter thought a contest of Google skills would be a lot of fun. Two years later, during the summer of 2007, he watched this episode of zefrank. The video encouraged him to write a proposal describing a contest in which participants compete to find information online. He approached several graduate students for their feedback. The proposal changed a lot after these meetings, and Daniel wanted an easy way to keep everyone up-to-date with the latest version so he created this website ( DigitalLiteracyContest.org ). He then met with several Purdue University professors to ask for their feedback. Then he met with Deans and Associate Deans. After meeting personally with over twenty people the contest took the name ‘Digital Literacy Contest.’ Dean Mullins of Purdue Libraries graciously offered to contribute pizza for the first contest on August 29th, 2007. Fifty students came to this first contest. Over fifteen people helped proctor and ma
