Programme Guidelines & Challenges

Programme Guidelines: Ages 8 to 12 years

Challenges

The first step in this program is selecting a challenge. The challenge must relate to COVID-19 and the post COVID-19 world.

The following challenges are some ideas that can be used or as a starting point for your inspiration:

  • Handshake Alternative - people can spread germs by touching other people. Our hands carry more germs than most other parts of the body
  • Cough Catcher - people can spread germs by coughing and sneezing
  • Health Check - fever is one of the first signs that someone is getting sick, but it is hard to tell if someone has a fever just by looking at them
  • No Sanitiser Left Behind - germs on our hands can enter our mouths when we eat
  • Design For a Friend - children can easily catch viruses from other children
  • Dream Bedroom - children who are sick with a virus can easily spread it to other children or their families
  • Hands Off! - we can spread germs when we touch things with our hands
  • Contactless Coins - money can carry germs because so many different people touch it
  • Healthy Delivery - people have to stay in their homes and cannot go out to buy food
  • Rubbish Remover - rubbish and waste can spread germs

Submission Format

The submission requires the following parts to be completed:

    1. Submission Form

  •  Use the Ideation Sheet template to show the flow from challenge to solution
  •  Come up with a solution

    2. Sketch Template (Available in your Toolkit)

  •  Sketch the solution using the sketch template
  •  Use clear and innovative ways to draw your sketch

    3. Your Pitch: Video Presentation

  •  Explain solution/idea presented in the sketch
  •  Video should not exceed 2 minutes (please follow video guidelines listed above under Participation & Submission Guidelines)

Evaluation Criteria

Submissions will be evaluated against the following criteria:

RESEARCH Depth to which the problem was studied and analysed, including extent of analysis of existing solutions, and identification of a gap

INNOVATION Degree to which the solution makes life better by improving existing options, developing a new application of existing ideas, or solving the problem in a completely new way

CREATIVITY Imagination used to develop the solution; including the use of tools to develop the solution

SOCIAL IMPACT Level of social impact at a local, community or global level

PRESENTATION Message delivery, flow and organisation of the presentation


Programme Guidelines: Ages 13 to 16 years

Challenges

The first step in this program is selecting a Challenge. The challenge must relate to COVID-19 and the post COVID-19 world.

Participants must identify and select a challenge from the following set of challenges:

  • Healthcare, Health Safety and Medicine - strengthening healthcare systems and advances in medicines to promote health and wellbeing for all ages
  • Community Care and Safety - achieving positive well-being among people within all environments by reducing and preventing injury and crime. The goal is to build strong, resilient and lively communities
  • Mobility and Travel - promoting ease of travel of goods and people
  • Sustainable Urban Planning - organisation of communities to ensure they are liveable over the long term
  • Supply Chain - movement and distribution of products from suppliers to customers
  • Industry Impact - responding to challenges industries face due to changes in economic, environment and social, on a local or global scale
  • Economic Growth and Development - increase in the level of production, living standards and advancement of technology of an economy
  • Elderly Care and Wellbeing - maintaining a healthy lifestyle and creating support networks for the elderly
  • Environment and Climate Impact - responding to changes within the ecosystem to protect and improve it
  • Workforce - maintaining level of workforce, managing risk, and improving the quality and performance
  • Educational Landscape - ensuring access to education to different groups of people and having maximum impact of teaching
  • Misinformation and Communication - spotting accurate, trustworthy information and providing effective communications channels
  • Global Security - measures taken by states and international organisations to ensure mutual safety and security
  • Food Security - availability and access to food
  • Emerging Technologies for Good - development of new technology for positive third-party benefits
  • Futuristic innovations - foreseeing long term challenges and revolutionising the future

Submission Format

The submission requires the following parts to be completed:

    1. Submission Form and 5P’s Mapping (Available in your Toolkit)

  •   Specify selected challenge theme
  •   Define the user pain-points that the solution is trying to solve
  •   5P Mapping to be completed

    2. Your Pitch: Video Presentation

  •   Explain your idea, using an extended elevator pitch
  •   Showcase your prototype (if applicable)
  •   Video should not exceed 3 minutes (please follow video guidelines listed above under Participation & Submission Guidelines)

Evaluation Criteria

Submissions will be evaluated against the following criteria:

FEASIBILITY Practicality and applicability of proposed idea

IMPACT Overall social impact, beneficiaries coverage, and idea durability

INNOVATION & CREATIVITY Level of innovation and creativity of the proposed idea


Programme Guidelines: Ages 17 to 30 years

Challenges

The first step in this program is selecting a challenge. The challenge must relate to COVID-19 and the post COVID-19 world.

Participants must identify and select a challenge from the following set of challenges:

  • Healthcare, Health Safety and Medicine - strengthening healthcare systems and advances in medicines to promote health and wellbeing for all ages
  • Community Landscape and Safety - achieving positive well-being among people within all environments by reducing and preventing injury and crime. The goal is to build strong, resilient and lively communities
  • Mobility and Travel - promoting ease of travel of goods and people
  • Sustainable Urban Planning - organisation of communities to ensure they are liveable over the long term
  • Supply Chain - movement and distribution of products from suppliers to customers
  • Industry Impact - responding to challenges industries face due to changes in economic, environment and social, on a local or global scale
  • Economic Growth and Development - increase in the level of production, living standards and advancement of technology of an economy
  • Elderly Care and Wellbeing - maintaining a healthy lifestyle and creating support networks for the elderly
  • Environment and Climate Impact - responding to changes within the ecosystem to protect and improve it
  • Workforce - maintaining a level of workforce, managing risk, and improving the quality and performance
  • Educational Landscape - ensuring access to education to different groups of people and having maximum impact of teaching
  • Misinformation and Communication - spotting accurate, trustworthy information and providing effective communications channels
  • Global Security - measures taken by states and international organisations to ensure mutual safety and security
  • Food Security - availability and access to food
  • Emerging Technologies for Good - development of new technology for positive third-party benefits
  • Beyond Mars - foreseeing long term challenges and revolutionising the future

Submission Format

The submission requires the following parts to be completed:

    1. Submission form and Social Enterprise Canvas (Available in your Toolkit)

  •  Specify the selected challenge theme
  •  Explain the pain point you are trying to solve
  •  Explain the solution at a high level, including: beneficiaries, stakeholders, it’s benefits, how the idea is unique and will be taken to market, risks associated
  •  Completed Social Enterprise Model

    2. Your Pitch: Video Presentation

  •  Showcase your prototype
  •  Explain your idea, using an extended elevator pitch
  •  Video should not exceed 3 minutes (please follow video guidelines listed above under Participation & Submission Guidelines)

Evaluation Criteria

Submissions will be evaluated against the following criteria:

FEASIBILITY Practicality and applicability of proposed idea

IMPACT Overall social impact, beneficiaries coverage, and idea durability

INNOVATION & CREATIVITY Level of innovation and creativity of the proposed idea

Related Articles