The Faculty of Environments annual Jack Rosen pitch competition provides students an opportunity to submit an idea to solve, mitigate, or prevent environmental issues. This competition encourages entrepreneurship and innovation and offers students the prospect of winning cash prizes to fund their ideas.
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Map the System is open to University of Waterloo undergradute and graduate students, and recent graduates in any faculty. This competition asks students to select a social or environmental issue and to explore, probe, and research all the connecting elements and factors around it.
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The Worlds Challenge Challenge (WCC) at the University of Waterloo is a competition in which groups of two to four students pick one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and propose a change and or solution.
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The Hult Prize is an annual competition challenging university students to solve social and environmental issues on food security, water access, energy and education. Each year the theme of the competition is changed.
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Wege Prize is an annual competition that ignites game-changing solutions for the future by inspiring college/university students around the world to collaborate across institutional, disciplinary, and cultural boundaries to redesign the way economies work.
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The Concept $5K pitch competition offers the opportunity for University of Waterloo student led teams with innovative solutions and high potential business ideas to showcase their hard work and compete for grant funding. Participants receive valuable feedback, pitching experience, and idea validation from a network of experienced entrepreneurs and Concept Coaches.
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Students who enroll in the Climate Innovation Discovery Stream competition spend their time researching climate change related problems and developing potential innovative solutions.
Learn more about the Climate Innovation Discovery Stream.