Stage one of the Fragile Families Challenge, the predictive modeling stage, ended today at 2pm ET.  We are grateful to everyone who participated.  This is not, however, the end of the Fragile Families Challenge.  In fact, there are many important and exciting things to come.  We will be:

• hosting the Fragile Families Challenge meet-up at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sunday August 13 at 2pm.
• awarding prizes.
• open sourcing the submissions to the Challenge.
• publishing a single paper presenting the design and results from the Challenge.
• publishing a special issue of Socius, a new open access journal published by the American Sociological Association, about the Fragile Families Challenge.
• hosting the Fragile Families Challenge Scientific Workshop on November 16 & 17.
• conducting research to discover important and unmeasured factors, prioritize issues for intervention, and compare modeling approaches.

We are looking forward to all of the next steps in the Fragile Families Challenge.