The recently concluded Kabam collider project was an open challenge to students to develop a new methodology and create an implementation process to price goods when taking into accounts relative global economics and purchasing parities in markets. The challenge aimed at driving students to apply advanced concepts in Finance, Business, Economics and International Trade to solve for challenges created by a global commerce environment.

A number of teams participated in the challenge. The winners, Team Bing Bang, received a $15,000 check from Kabam’s VP of Studio Strategy, Mike Termezy. Runners up, Team Visible Hand received $5000 while Team Eve 2.0 and Team All About That Case received $1000 checks for a tied third place.

An Archive of Team Presentations can be accessed below:
1st Place: Team Bing Bang (Aditya Mishra, Stephanie Snipes, Alexander Jones)
2nd Place: Team Visible Hand (Jordan Ou, Zarek Brot-Goldberg)
3rd Place (Tie): Team Eve 2.0 (Jin Park, Nathan Jin, Jason Hu) & Team All About that Case (Nicole Martinez, Janet Dong, Nathan Malone)

The aim of collider projects is to bring together students, researchers, investors, entrepreneurs and industry leaders in a learning environment to ‘collide’ and create ventures, solutions, research driven commercialization and opportunities to create impact in society. To learn more about collider projects led by the SCET, click here.

Update: The Berkeley School of Information has written a nice write-up here to explain more about the challenge and strategies Team Bing Bang employed to take home the prize.