Back with your final results!
Drumroll for the final results of our challenge, across multiple events of knowledge-sharing community contributions during the month of August...
Helping Hands:
Bronze: @trz-justin-dev -- swooped in during the last 2 days of this challenge to take Bronze! Thank you for your 9 super helpful replies on lingering topics within the span of 2 days!! Congrats!
Silver: @jamesg31 -- as it was foretold, as someone relatively new to the community forum at the beginning of the month, you kept up your highly useful advice on these topics in need of guidance, extending a helping hand to 19 topics still awaiting pointers. You added great questions to get momentum toward a solution! Congrats on the silver! Badge coming your way shortly!
Gold: @MiguelOrtiz -- you are everywhere in the forum and you were especially attuned to the topics still welcoming replies this month! You commented on 25 of them, making folks feel welcome and working toward meaningful technical tips, workarounds, and solutions! Impressive run, maintaining the top slot in this "event" from the get-go! Gold badge recognition well deserved.
Thank you also to @MikeCB @jg80 @ZeroCodez @stewart.anstey @Milan_Kalem for chiming in on several of these welcoming replies! As a community every contribution counts and adds up to the collaborative vibes we're all going for 
Question for the group -- feel free to chime in here in the comments, or DM me your thoughts:
- Should we continue adding a tag like
welcoming-repliesto bump topics that initially went unanswered for 2-3 days back to the "latest" on the front page for visibility? We could automate this to give topics a second chance at community input
Let us know if you think we should do this! - From monitoring our metrics, it looks like bumping unanswered threads after the first several days had a positive impact on time to first response (39% better average first reply time in August than July) and lowered the number of topics that never got a reply (similar, slightly better in August than July).
Perseverant Solvers:
This 'event' required working toward a confirmed Solution 
on topics that had originally gone unanswered for several days. These could have been tougher ones, or initially couldn't be reproduced, didn't have enough info for the community to help, etc. but these folks persevered to get to a workable solution! Ah, that sweet taste of victory having helped to solve a tough problem that may not have been solved otherwise!
Bronze: We have a tie for third! Congrats @jg80 @Rodrigo_Carrizo!
Silver: @jamesg31 takes another Silver!
Gold: @MiguelOrtiz takes another Gold, by 1 solution! This is like one of those swimming or track finals that end in a one-one-hundredth of a second differentiator between the medals!
Well done and thank you to all of these folks!
Fast Responders
All of these folks contributed replies on at least 5 topics within the first 2 days since that topic was created! One of the best experiences one can have on a forum is receiving timely input from others, and feeling like we're all in this together to learn about and unblock Retool building 
@MiguelOrtiz @ZeroCodez @jg80 @bobthebear @MikeCB @jamesg31 @Milan_Kalem @Steven_W @GuilhermeSilva @pyrrho @abusedmedia
Thank you and congrats to all 11 of you on earning this badge via your contributions in August!
Creative Expression
Such useful use cases and tips were surfaced in this month's Community Show & Tell topics! Thank you to all of these badge earners -- and everyone please do keep sharing your insights in that category 
Bronze: @explore 's Looping Through Multiple Pages of a REST API Using Recursive Workflows in Retool 
Silver: @khill-fbmc 's Type Hints for any code in Retool! 
Gold: @stefancvrkotic 's Plotly AI helper 
You'll all see these badges applied on your profile very soon!
Next up: our learning-focused 🍎 September Retool Community Challenge: Back to School Edition📚 - see you there!
Have feedback on our challenges? Please send me ( @kbn ) a DM here on the forum! We'd love to hear your ideas for future recognition and what fun community building efforts you'd like to see.