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Inchallenges social entrepreneurship and Innovation Challenge 2016

Robert Malit

Inchallenges Innovation Challenge is a competition that empowers youth in 3 African countries to create and implement solutions to problems faced by their communities.

Inchallenge Innovation Challenge 2016 is a national challenge for young people in Sierra Leone, Kenya and South Africa. The Inchallenges program draws out project proposals and offers design workshops, seed funding and mentorship to select youth finalists.

The program enhances creativity, promotes civic engagement and strengthens Science Technology Engineering Arts and Mathematics literacy. It also develops entrepreneurship and leadership skills.

Eligibility and how it works

  • Any Senior Secondary School in Sierra Leone, Kenya or South Africa can nominate teams of 2 – 5 students to participate in the national InChallenge.
  • The teams with the best proposals will be selected as finalist by an internationally acclaimed panel of judges and receive seed-funding to test and prove their solution to a well-defined local problem over a piloting phase.
  • Teams will need to provide details of how the projects will be developed and why the teams are well suited to accomplish their projects.
    At the end of the competition cycle, the best finalist teams may be selected as winners, if sufficient progress has been made on their project.
  • Each winning team will receive additional funding to further develop and scale their project.
    The award money is not meant for personal use of team members and must be used only for the project.

Project Proposals

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  • Contact Information: Provide each team member’s name, your school’s name, address and detailed contact information
  • Introduction: A brief overview of your project
  • ŸThe Problem: What is the problem that you are trying to solve through this innovation
  • Problem Motivation: Why is this problem important to you?
  • Proposed Solution: How are you planning on fixing this problem? And is it scalable?
  • Detailed Budget: What would the costs be to completing your project?
  • Plan of Action: What steps are you planning on taking to make this project a reality?

Fill out the application form for Innovation Challenge 2016 Kenya. Deadline is on 25th June, 2016.