By Laura Hubbard

Have you always wanted to go to the International CES, but you’ve never had the opportunity or money to make it to Vegas. The Innovation Movement is currently running two contests that will test your innovation skills and might just win you a ticket to the big event in January.

For those left-brain analytical innovators, consider entering the “Apps for Innovation” contest http://www.appsforinnovation.com. The deadline for submissions was just extended until Monday, December 14, 2009. We are looking for developers to build apps that demonstrate how innovation and entrepreneurship are impacting the U.S. economy or help consumers advance policy goals that support innovation.

As an example, an app might take data from the U.S. government’s http://www.recovery.gov site to track the spending and use of stimulus funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to reveal where science and technology project spending is taking place.

For those right-brain innovators, consider entering the Threadless t-shirt design challenge http://www.threadless.com/loves/innovation inspired by innovation. Designers can depict technology innovations of the past, present or future, depending on how they are inspired by the challenge.  This challenge already has 82 submissions that are being scored on a scale of zero to five by members of the Threadless.com community. If you’ve not already part of the Threadless community, join today so you can help pick the winner.

Both contests are part of the Innovation Movement (http://www.innovation-movement.com), the grassroots campaign launched in June by CEA to mobilize Americans in support of public policies such as broadband and international trade that will play a key role in the global economic recovery and U.S. job creation. The mission of the Innovation Movement is to encourage the U.S. government to reward innovation and investment and support policies that foster entrepreneurship in a free-market system.  More than 35,000 Americans have already joined the Innovation Movement.  Are you one of them?

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