Through XPRIZE Connect young people gain more than just knowledge – they gain the tools, opportunities, and inspiration to apply that knowledge in meaningful ways. By leveraging our proprietary design thinking and first-principle methodology, students discover their passions and actively work on identifying global challenges.
XPRIZE Connect offers a platform for future innovators to collaborate, imagine, and design the world they want to live in.The program allows learners to:
- Identify global challenges they are passionate about solving.
- Master key skills to analyze and reflect on their ideas.
- Collaborate and innovate through global peer-to-peer learning and expert mentorship.
- Develop tangible prototypes that could have real-world applications and address critical global issues.
- Effectively share their ideas in a thorough and compelling way to inspire action.
The program offers:
- The XPRIZE Connect DEFINE Experience - a sequence of learning experiences reflecting the XPRIZE Visioneering process that result in a refined pitch outlining a global challenge students have identified that needs solving.
- A library of digital resources that teach supporting themes, skills, and capacities.
- Teacher onboarding and support materials including teacher guides, lesson plans and online training modules to implement the program asynchronously or through a blended classroom model.
- Toolkits to plan a showcase of student/team pitches.
- Opportunity to submit student pitches to a global showcase and challenge with winning selections attending the XPRIZE Visioneering summit in California, USA.