Global Competition for Teenagers to Create Solutions to Local and Global Problems
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Friday, October 23, 2020
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Jacobs Teen Innovation Challenge supports middle- and high-school student teams around the world to create solutions to local and global problems and compete in an international challenge to earn up to $1,000 for charity.
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- SAN DIEGO, Oct. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Jacobs Teen Innovation Challenge supports middle- and high-school student teams around the world to create solutions to local and global problems and compete in an international challenge to earn up to $1,000 for charity.
- Using Pactful, students learn essential skills such as empathy, critical thinking, community engagement, design, prototyping, and storytelling that benefit them in future-focused careers.
- Pactful is a free, patent-pending virtual tool and curriculum that helps educators guide students to develop a project that provides a solution to real-world problems in their community.
- From January through April 2021, students will work through three stages of design thinking to develop their social good solution.