Are you ready for a challenge? The ASA Leadership Institute is announcing the 2020 Leadership Challenge for students and recent graduates.

The challenge is to develop a plan for an outreach campaign. Teams of 3–5 members will create a proposal for a campaign that will help the ASA address a strategic focus of being the "Big Tent" for statistics and data science and to engage with the data science community, especially early-career data scientists.

We want the leadership challenge teams to help us develop a strategy to encourage early-career data scientists and those who are considering a career in data science to recognize the ASA as their professional organization home. Innovation and creativity are encouraged!

Applications to participate are due January 30, 2020. Selected teams will begin their work in February, and the challenge will culminate with a presentation to the ASA Board of Directors at their JSM 2020 meeting. The board will select a winning team and each member of the winning team will receive a $500 travel scholarship to offset the cost of attending a 2020 or 2021 ASA meeting.

For more information about the Leadership Challenge, contact Donna LaLonde.