The Impact Ideathon is a competition for students ages 16-18 who will collaborate to identify the world's greatest sustainable development challenges and propose solutions that will shape our future.
By 2050, the world will need to feed 9 billion people. The number of people living in cities will triple. One third to one half of rain forests will vanish. Diseases will be deadlier than ever. The Impact Ideathon is hopefully the first of many Virtual Design Thinking Challenges hosted by United Engineers and STEMchats.
Projects can take the form of computer programs, 3D models, graphic designs, pure academic research, or any other medium which can be tested and innovated upon. Participants will use design thinking and the engineering design process to evolve their solution to something that can be implemented.
The Impact Ideathon is a competition for students ages 16-18 who will collaborate to identify the world's greatest sustainable development challenges and propose solutions that will shape our future. Throughout this Ideathon, teams will select an idea to develop, justify, and present as a solution in response to a problem.
Start by identifying a global issue. Then formulate an idea that could be the solution. Test and develop your idea using a variety of skills and knowledge on your team. End result: pitch your idea and convince the judges that it will work.
No prior experience is necessary to attend and compete. Speakers and workshops from organizations that could be potentially useful to participants will be featured throughout a full day.
The competition is open to students around the world! You’ll have weeks before the event to meet and collaborate with other people via Slack. You’ll learn and compete via Zoom. All you need is access to WiFi (and a bit of patience for technology).
We’ll be awarding top 3 teams based on scores from the judges. In addition, a fourth team will receive the Peoples Choice award by vote. We’re working with social impact leaders to help us award prizes in addition to the base Amazon e-gift card prizes..
Network with other game changers who want to build a better world. Interact with professionals who want you to succeed. We hope participants will take their projects and feedback to the next levels even after this Ideathon ends — we’ll be here to cheer you on!
An ideathon is a competition similar to hackathons and makeathons, but the goal of ideathon participants is to refine, develop, and present very unique and promising ideas. Participants in an ideathon may choose to use a variety of mediums to support and test the limits of their ideas, but judging criteria are solely based on the participants’ methodology and the quality of their ideas.
