The PhizzPop Design Challenge is a web design and development competition sponsored by Microsoft. As I understand it, the overall purpose of PhizzPop is to familiarize the design and development community with the power of Microsoft's Silverlight.
To that end they've arranged a PhizzPop tour through various US cities. In each city, agencies are selected for the competition, trained on Silverlight, and asked to complete a design challenge, and then present their solutions at a rocking event. The next scheduled tour stop is in Los Angeles on February 20, 2009.
This is the third go-around for PhizzPop and this year they've added an online version of the challenge to allow folks to participate even if they aren't located in one of the tour cities.
Why am I pimping PhizzPop on this here blog? Cuz Aquent is a sponsor and Aquent Graphics Institute (AGI) provides the Silverlight training for all participants competing in the Design Challenge. And I've got nothing but love for AGI.
And the on-line PhizzPop design challenge includes free training - and a chance to win a trip to the CRE8 Conference at Walt Disney World in April 15-16. Free training, Free evaluation software, the winner goes to Disney World... where do I sign up? PhizzPop.com of course
Thanks for the clarification, Chris!