Challenge 1:

Development Challenge (Tech Majors): 

Prompt:

Create a hybrid solution (digital or physical) that improves accessibility, safety, or sustainability within underrepresented or underserved communities—either on your campus, in a local neighborhood, or a country you choose to represent. (If foreign, preferably your ethnic neighborhood)

Your project can focus on:

    •    Creating safer, smarter transportation pathways (e.g., for bikes, pedestrians, or campus shuttles)

    •    A mobile or web app to crowdsource maintenance or hazard reports (e.g., broken streetlights, slippery stairs, poor lighting)

    •    A tool for connecting students with local community service opportunities that match their skills or interests

• Be creative with your creation.

What to submit:

Submit your GitHub repository, along with:

1. A screenshot or video demonstration of your program

2. A brief explanation of what your program does

3. Problems you encountered

4. Next steps for your program (e.g., functionality you might not have been able to implement)

Challenge 2:

Prompt:
Choose a country, your own or one you’re passionate about, and highlight a real-world challenge it’s facing today. This could be anything from food insecurity, water scarcity, waste management, public health issues, youth unemployment, cultural preservation, etc

Your project can focus on:

• Making the audience feel the problem’s urgency.
  
  

• Proposing a creative, realistic solution that could work in that country’s cultural, economic, and environmental context.
  
  

• Showing how your idea could scale or inspire action in other places.
  
  

•  Use your presentation to prove that innovative thinking stemming from empathy and cultural understanding can cross borders and create global impact.

What to submit:

1. A PowerPoint presentation highlighting the project focus.

2. Demo presentation on how this idea will solve real-world problems