MIT Solv[ED] 2021-2022 Youth Innovation Challenge (Up to $200,000 in prizes)
Published: 07 Oct 2021
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Are you 24 and under and passionate about making a positive impact in your community and the world? Apply now for the MIT Solv[ED] Youth Innovation Challenge 2021. Solv[ED] is designed to spark a sense of agency in young people aged 24 and under, encouraging, inspiring, and supporting them to become problem-solvers in their communities and the world.
The Solv[ED] Youth Innovation Challenge is an opportunity for you to submit your tech-based solution that:
- Improves learning opportunities and outcomes for learners across their lifetimes, from early childhood on.
- Supports financial and economic opportunities for all.
- Accelerates healthcare access and health outcomes, reducing and, ultimately, eliminating disparities in health.
- Takes action to combat climate change and its impacts.
- Addresses an unmet social, environmental, or economic need not covered in the four topics above.
MIT Solv[ED] Youth Innovation Challenge
Benefits of MIT Solv[ED] Youth Innovation Challenge
- Over $200,000 is available in prize funding to share among selected Solv[ED] Innovators.
- In addition to prize funding, selected Solv[ED] Innovators will receive mentorship and coaching from members of the MIT and MIT Solve community.
Requirements for MIT Solv[ED] Youth Innovation Challenge
- Anyone, anywhere around the world can submit a solution to the Solv[ED] Youth Innovation Challenge;
- Applicant should be aged 24 and under;
- Solv[ED] is open to solutions at all stages of development, and with any business model. Whether your solution is a concept, a product that is being prototyped, a service that is being piloted in your local community, or a fully operational nonprofit or for-profit organization, they want to hear from you.
- Your solution does need to be tech-based.
Application Deadline
January 18, 2022How to Apply
Interested and qualified? Go to
MIT Solve on solve.mit.edu to apply
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