2018 Scripps Innovation Challenge kickoff is Jan. 31
The will be held at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 31, in Schoonover Center Auditorium, room 145.
The Scripps Innovation Challenge, open to all 蜜柚视频 students, is designed for teams to work collaboratively across academic programs to develop and pitch innovative solutions to real-world 鈥渃hallenges鈥 posed by media and communication organizations, with the winners selected by a panel of industry professionals.
The featured speaker will be alumnus Michael Clay Carey, MS 鈥12 and PHD 鈥14, author of 鈥淭he News Untold: Community Journalism and the Failure to Confront Poverty in Appalachia.鈥
Winners will be chosen when finalists present their ideas at a 鈥淧itch Day鈥 competition on April 9 at 蜜柚视频鈥檚 Baker University Center.
Last year鈥檚 top prize of $7,000 went to Team Players, three students studying playwriting, who came up with an innovative way to use social media for a live-TV 鈥減ledge drive鈥 in which participants would vote for cute animal videos, culminating in a five-animal showdown where celebrities would represent each animal and urge watchers to make donations to NRDC.
Green Mappers placed second, collecting a $2,500 cash prize. But officials at NRDC 鈥 in a separate judging competition 鈥 selected the Green Mappers entry as the best for the Natural Resources Defense Council challenge. That carried with it NRDC鈥檚 鈥渋ncentive prize鈥 of the all-expenses-paid trip to New York.
鈥淭he Scripps Innovation Challenge offers cash prizes to winners. But while the money is nice, we鈥檝e found that students are just as interested in 鈥榠ncentive prizes鈥 in which they can present their innovative ideas to the top leaders in a sponsoring company or organization,鈥 said Andy Alexander, director of the Scripps Innovation Challenge. 鈥淭he Challenge鈥檚 extra value is that in presenting their ideas to sponsors, the students also get to network with top industry leaders.鈥
For more information, visit /scrippscollege/innovationchallenge/