The World’s Challenge Challenge at the University of Waterloo is a competition where teams of three diverse students picked United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (also known as Global Goals), and will propose a solution. Teams will make a 5-7 minute presentation to a panel of judges, with Q&A.
Judges Include:
Ida Kaastra-Mutoigo; Director of World Renew Canada
Tania Framst; VP Operations & Sales, Lucky Iron Fish
Jennifer King; Senior Project Manager, MEDA
Paul Parker; Associate Dean, Strategic Initiatives, University of Waterloo
Pizza will be served for attendees.
Each member of the winning team will win $1,000 (each member of the 2nd and 3rd place teams will win some awesome electronics), and the winning team will move on to compete against other schools at the International World’s Challenge Challenge from June 3-8, held at Western University in London, Ontario. The winning team of the International round will win $30,000 to split evenly within their team, the second place team will win $15,000, and the 3rd place team will win $7,500. More information about the origins of the event can be found here and the scoring rubric can be found here.
The World’s Challenge Challenge is a collaboration between Waterloo International, Velocity, and Western University.