
Illinois Tech Innovation Challenge
Ages:High School
Type:Submission
Categories:Business, Entrepreneurship
Scope:State
Contact
Do you have a smart solution to a real-world consumer or business need? The Illinois Tech Innovation Challenge invites you to solve a real problem by creating a physical thing, application, or an application to control a physical thing.
The Contest is a four-stage competition designed to:
- Encourage and inspire students to think about creating physical things, applications and applications that control physical things by encouraging them to seek to solve a real-world consumer and/or business need or problem that they have identified
- Demonstrate their creativity and inventiveness at solving this problem
- Provide an opportunity to earn a monetary prize and, for the noted limited time, free rent at a maker’s co-working space in recognition of their accomplishment.
Illinois Tech Innovation Challenge Award
The top 3 teams currently in high school (12 total) will receive up to a $25,000 scholarship* to attend Illinois Tech!
Website: https://web.iit.edu/entrepreneurship-academy/innovation-challenge
Managing Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology
Contact:
innovationchallenge@iit.edu
Eligibility:
Currently enrolled high school students attending any high school in the greater Chicagoland area*
*The Chicago area is defined as the following counties in Illinois: Cook, Lake, McHenry, Kane, DuPage, and Will; and in Indiana, Lake County.
Overview
Do you have a smart solution to a real-world consumer or business need? The Illinois Tech Innovation Challenge invites you to solve a real problem by creating a physical thing, application, or an application to control a physical thing.
Process
- Encourage and inspire students to think about creating physical things, applications and applications that control physical things by encouraging them to seek to solve a real-world consumer and/or business need or problem that they have identified
- Demonstrate their creativity and inventiveness at solving this problem
- Provide an opportunity to earn a monetary prize and, for the noted limited time, free rent at a maker’s co-working space in recognition of their accomplishment.
Criteria
Awards
Illinois Tech Innovation Challenge Award
The top 3 teams currently in high school (12 total) will receive up to a $25,000 scholarship* to attend Illinois Tech!
Participate
Website: https://web.iit.edu/entrepreneurship-academy/innovation-challenge
Managing Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology
Contact:
innovationchallenge@iit.edu
Eligibility:
Currently enrolled high school students attending any high school in the greater Chicagoland area*
*The Chicago area is defined as the following counties in Illinois: Cook, Lake, McHenry, Kane, DuPage, and Will; and in Indiana, Lake County.