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Still need more info? Hear from your peers about why YOU should join the Sustainable Development Challenge Project and Pitch!
PROJECT AND PITCH
The heart of the Challenge.
What it is and how to participate.
Project and Pitch
Are you a game changer- an innovator- a young person with a passion to lead, engage and impact your world?
We invite you (and your team) to tackle issues related to the 17 United Nations’ Global Goals. With guidance and support from a partner organization, mentors, and the SDC team, you will develop your idea into a meaningful, sustainable and feasible project to present to your community. Top teams receive funding and support to make their ideas a reality.
Step One
What is the PROBLEM or issue to want to impact? Which Global Goal does it fit with? Learn about the Global Goals and decide YOUR NUMBER. Which one of the goals gets you fired up?
Step Two
Assemble your dynamic team and Register!
Students must be in grades 8-12 in the Central Okanagan with a team of no more than 6. An adult sponsor must be found to supervise the presentation and be in attendance at the SDC. Register your team on our site by the deadline (see calendar)
Step Three
Build your project. You will have the opportunity to meet with the Challenge Coordinator and attend Mentor Nights to discuss your project and gather feedback from business and community leaders. Submit Abstract. Keep tabs on Phase 1 Submission deadlines (CALENDAR).
After receiving the team abstracts, the top teams will be chosen to compete in the Challenge Finale.
* Top teams from Phase 1 will be notified in January and will move on to Phase 2 of the Challenge *
Step Four
Finalize your project
If your project was chosen to move forward, put the “icing on the cake” using all of your research and mentor advice to make the most compelling, impactful, sustainable and feasible project you can.
Teams will attend 1 more Mentor Night.
Submit your final written project proposal to the judges.
Step Five
Prepare your live pitch and Present at the Challenge Finale!
Take the best parts of your project and Educate, Entertain, and Inspire to action a live audience of judges, community members, and prospective donors. In a creative on stage pitch show how you are ready to make an impact on the Global Goals!
Here’s what past students have said about The SDC!
“The challenge opened my eyes to charity work and how it happens and to all the amazing causes out there. I wouldn’t change my experience for the world!!”
“I have a WAY better understanding! This event really opened my eyes and from now on I see issues and how they connect to their numbers and what their impact on the world is. I see so much more now and I want to change so much more now too!! I think this challenge is so amazing in how it teaches us about the world and how much it needs our help.”
“The challenge exposed us to the SDG’s and allowed for creativity and innovation-good opportunity to public speak and present our project”
“I learned so much about connections between charity’s and NGO’s and students, I learned about just how much you can really get done even as a young adult, and I learned about a wide range of issues I didn’t even know about before!”
“We will certainly maintain our relationship with the NGO. We still communicate regularly and are doing fundraisers and I believe Doug will be a connection for life. I hope to one day go to the school in Uganda!”
“We were able to connect more with our community and each other. It also allowed us to learn more about initiatives in Kelowna”
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