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SUMMARY:Research Development at PUIs as a Video Game
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Research Development--Deep Impact is a virtual fantasy game for pre-award staff at PUIs that includes a wide range of strategies, weapons, and tactics. The goal is to maximize Scoring, in terms of success rates, proposal numbers, and award dollars obtained. This game can be addicting - pre-award staff need to meter their play and not neglect their homework. The game is comprised of: 1. Many Rooms (aka NOFOs.) These may be entered serially and in most cases more than once in order to obtain Prizes (grants) that contribute to Scoring. Prizes vary in number, size, and competitiveness. Information about Prizes may be open or hidden, and learned by experience - it is critical to be skilled at picking on Rooms your own size and at reading the Room. To reach a Prize, Players must first perform a unique Room-specific Dance (proposal) in which they deploy their Tokens. 2. Farms (aka institutions). Players reside at Farms where they collect Tokens (faculty) of various strength and attributes. Tokens may be carried into Rooms and used in the Dances for Prizes. In most Rooms, you cannot Play without them. 3. Coins (human capital.) A Player may enhance the value of their Tokens by feeding them with Coins, such as pre-award intelligence, training in grant-writing, seed funding, motivational messages, and in some cases sabbatical subventions or course releases. To Score, Players should grow Coins, encourage Tokens to accept them, and help Tokens Dance with grace, power, and compliance. In some Rooms, Players are expected to bring a different type of Coin--Green Vegetables (aka cost-sharing.) 4. Other Players. A Player must compete with other Players in Dancing for Prizes--but in some Rooms they may or must collaborate with other Players to form a Troop. Prizes are usually but not always awarded to the Players or Troops who bring the Tokens with the most Coins into the right Room at the right time. 5. Jackpots (center grants, translational institutes.) Rooms with these highly-charged Prizes can only be entered by very large Troops who not only command many Tokens but who also have rehearsed and can execute highly stylized and intricate Step Dances or Electric Slides. PUIs seldom command even medium-sized Troops, so they do not dream of Jackpots.
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