Social Sciences

Emerging Issues Prize for Innovation: Opportunities for undergraduate projects

This is from Lesley Boney, by way of the Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI), and is a great opportunity for our bright, highly motivated students! Note that the ideas they received spanned a very wide range of disciplines!

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Last year NC State?s Institute for Emerging Issues http://www.ncsu.edu/iei/)

kicked off a new prize, designed to recognize innovative, creative university students. The ?Emerging Issues Prize for Innovation? grew out of recommendations from the Governor?s Innovation Council?s ?Talent Committee? (which several UNC representatives and UNCGA sit on) as part of a larger strategy to remind students as early and often as possible that they can and must think innovatively if we are to succeed as a society.

Last year?s prize competition asked college students to propose creative solutions to reduce childhood obesity. I got to be a judge. We had GREAT ideas that connected education and public and private resources with volunteers, existing programs and new resources, and the submissions proved that we have a new generation of talent moving through our schools that can rock the world. The competition attracted solutions (some whacky; many wonderful) from students in the field of public health, the sciences, marketing, journalism, medicine and literature (!).

This year?s topic for Emerging Issues is focused on young people (sometimes known as Generation Z or M, or the ?internet generation,? but basically current high school age and down, see http://www.ncsu.edu/iei/?page_id=1642), what?s different about this generation, and how to strengthen their education and connectedness to their communities at a time when opportunities seem to be decreasing. The specific focus of this year?s innovation prize is to develop an ?innovative idea to increase North Carolina?s high school graduation rate.? Students are asked to work in teams (on campus or between campuses) to develop and refine ideas, then to submit them to IEI for a chance at the $5000 prize. Due date for apps 11/11; finalists 12/1; video submissions will be judged and announced at the forum in February. Details at the URL below.

http://www.ncsu.edu/iei/?page_id=207

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