MARC is a competition

MARC stands for "Metaphoric Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus" and promotes both AI literacy and pushing the boundaries of what AI can do.

Play a quick game, understand how it is created, make your own and win prizes.

Contribute to AI, win prizes

Official Start Date: September 1, 2025

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2025 (by 11:59 PM PST)

Each submission will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

• Easy for humans to solve
• Difficult for AIs to solve
• Creativity

Results Announcement: January 16, 2026

Current Prizes

• $500 for the top five submissions from Philosophy or Political Science majors
• $500 for best student submission as judged by the Library
• $500 for best faculty or staff submission as judged by the Library
• 3D Printed Bragging Rights trophy for best submission by Senior Leadership

Sponsored by:

• Politics and Philosophy
• Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Science
• Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation
• University of Idaho Library
• Bert Baumgaertner

Want to sponsor a prize? Reach out to bbaum@uidaho.edu with “MARC sponsor” in the subject line.