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Involving Students and Young Professionals in the SDG Challenge

Created May 24 2018, 11:10 AM by William Tarpai
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I am pleased to report on this platform about an event I attended last night in San Bernardino, California.   . http://entre.csusb.edu/content/innovation-challenge

 

It included students and young professionals competing for a $20,000 prize.   "California State University San Bernardino students, faculty, staff and alumni gathering to award a prize to the best cutting edge idea that will help change our campus,  our community, or quite possibly the world?"   or as we say in development work - small steps that lead to big changes'

 

The Annual CSUSB Innovation Challenge competition gives opportunity to team up, sharpen new ideas, and solve problems. The Event featured Open Pitch nights to present ideas, network, and form teams comprised of ANYONE from the CSUSB community, and compete for $20,000 in cash prizes at the main event.

I attended seeking to find the best Sustainable Development Goal ideas that had already STARTED BUILDING.  I was particularly interested to determine if the SDG Challenge had filtered down from UNGA in New York since 2015, and whether the innovation teams plans addressed Agenda 2030 concepts.  I can tell you, I wasn't disappointed.

As always, I am seeking feedback from members of this platform, hoping that being mobile based platform now will improve the level of communication.   Is anyone able to access this by email from your car as you drive down the street if an email alert was sent to you with this message?