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Prize money is separate: '$500,000 prize will be awarded to the team selected for creating the best socialbot. The second- and third-place teams will receive prizes of $100,000 and $50,000'. The gate, quoted from the rules: 'be enrolled as a full-time undergraduate or post-graduate student in good standing at an accredited college or university' and 'Entrants (\"Entrants\") must enter as part of an \"Entrant Team\" consisting of one or more students from a single University.'","unit":"none","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://www.amazon.science/alexa-prize/taskbot-challenge/rules","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"one-time-grant"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.amazon.science/alexa-prize/taskbot-challenge/rules","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.amazon.science/alexa-prize/taskbot-challenge/rules","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.amazon.science/alexa-prize/taskbot-challenge/rules"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"The $250,000 grant plus free AWS is the largest per-team compute and cash package in the competition lane, and it is unreachable without a university affiliation. The chain available for a user runs the other way: contribute to a university team as an enrolled student, which is an enrolment decision rather than a compute decision.","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":"the university is the unit of entry: a team must be drawn from a single accredited university with proof of enrolment, so an unaffiliated person cannot form an eligible team however strong the project.","source":"https://www.amazon.science/alexa-prize/taskbot-challenge/rules"}],"limits_note":"the university is the unit of entry: a team must be drawn from a single accredited university with proof of enrolment, so an unaffiliated person cannot form an eligible team however strong the project.","binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"the university is the unit of entry: a team must be drawn from a single accredited university with proof of enrolment, so an unaffiliated person cannot form an eligible team however strong the project.","identity_cost":{"kind":"institution","detail":null,"country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.amazon.science/alexa-prize/taskbot-challenge/rules","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'be enrolled as a full-time undergraduate or post-graduate student in good standing at an accredited college or university'; 'must enter as part of an \"Entrant Team\" consisting of one or more students from a single University'; 'Proof of enrollment will be required to participate'; read through the search index for amazon.science"},{"url":"https://www.amazon.science/alexa-prize/socialbot-grand-challenge/2022","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Each university selected for the challenge received a $250,000 research grant, Alexa-enabled devices, free Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing services to support their research and development efforts'; 'The GauchoChat team of four UCSB students ... earned $250,000'; read through the search index for amazon.science"},{"url":"https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/blogs/alexa/post/9f406f35-c997-4d17-a6ac-89a35f69b661/announcing-the-2018-alexa-prize-participant","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Each team will receive a $250,000 research grant, Alexa-enabled devices, free Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support their development efforts'; 'A $500,000 prize will be awarded'; read through the search index for developer.amazon.com"}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"The clearest institutional gate and the one most likely to be mistaken for open: the public-facing pages describe prizes and cloud support without stating the enrolment rule, which lives in the rules document. Three readings of the cloud term were considered: free AWS for the duration of the challenge, a fixed credit, or standard free-tier limits. The pages say 'free Amazon Web Services ... to support their research and development efforts' and never put a number on it, so the value of the compute is unverified and only the grant is quantified. 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