Providing a vehicle for taking student innovations from idea to reality, Dell’s Social Innovation Competition is a real-world exercise for perfecting your skills in:
Building resource networksIf you have a groundbreaking idea in mind or if you can mobilize people and resources to affect wide-ranging, scalable social change with your fortitude and personality, then you can submit your idea for the competition.
Issues can cover poverty alleviation/economic development, human rights, peace & security, digital inclusion, global health/AIDS, education, energy/environment/climate change, child/youth development, volunteerism, food/potable water, microfinance, drugs/crime, elections/Government and others.
The team or individual with the most ingenious entrepreneurial idea to change the world wins the grand prize of $50,000 in seed funding to launch or expand their idea.
Competition entries addressing the environment are eligible to win a special $10,000 Tomberg Prize in Environmental Sustainability prize.
Each of the three finalist teams automatically qualify for a spot on the GlobalGiving website, providing the opportunity to secure additional capital and exposure to donors worldwide.
Application deadline: February.
For more scholarship information and application: Dell Social Innovation Competition
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