After the flowering of the orange trees, the flowers become small fruits, and only one in about five to six of these small fruits will eventually develop into an edible orange. The remaining four to five will remain small and drop off: these are called aborted small oranges, and are very rich in hesperidin.

Despite the value that these small aborted oranges have, the process of collecting them is extremely troublesome and tedious. The oranges are handpicked from the floor by workers and then the best ones (i.e. those with <23mm diameter) are selected. This makes the job very difficult and expensive to perform.

Hence, the Seeker for this Challenge is looking for new methods to efficiently collect and triage these small aborted oranges, at the lowest possible cost, in order to replace or facilitate hand-collection methods.

This is an Ideation Challenge, which has the following unique features:

There is a guaranteed award . The awards will be paid to the best submission(s) as solely determined by the Seeker . The total payout will be $15,000, with at least one award being no smaller than $7,500 and no award being smaller than $2,500.

. The awards will be paid to the best submission(s) as . The total payout will be $15,000, with at least one award being no smaller than $7,500 and no award being smaller than $2,500. Submission forwarding occurs during the Challenge . Since submissions will be forwarded to the Seeker throughout the Challenge, please make sure you upload only a finished proposal. You can submit an updated version of your proposal only as a new submission. If you submit an updated version of your proposal, please clearly indicate the new items and/or edits compared to your previous submission. This will allow the Seeker to quickly find the new information and determine how it improves your submission.

. Since submissions will be forwarded to the Seeker throughout the Challenge, please make sure you upload only a finished proposal. You can submit an updated version of your proposal only as a new submission. If you submit an updated version of your proposal, please clearly indicate the new items and/or edits compared to your previous submission. This will allow the Seeker to quickly find the new information and determine how it improves your submission. The Solvers are not required to transfer exclusive intellectual property rights to the Seeker. Rather, by submitting a proposal, the Solvers grants to the Seeker a royalty-free, perpetual, and non-exclusive license to use any information included in this proposal.

Submissions to this Challenge must be received by 11:59 PM (US Eastern Time) on January 18, 2016. Late submissions will not be considered.