The 2020 Conrad Challenge: What Happens When The Challenge Gets Challenging?
In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, we welcome Kristie Letter, educator and two-time mentor of two Conrad Challenge student teams onto the program.
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In This Episode \u2026What is the Conrad Challenge?
How do you ask your students to be innovative enough to change the world?
How to choose a topic for the Challenge with your students
How to create a student-led group to complete the challenge
How to plan and budget for your groups Challenge
Planning a calendar of events throughout an entire year
How do face adversity and challenges throughout the year
How to get involved with the Conrad Challenge
What Is The Conrad Challenge?Registration is now open for the 2018-2019\xa0 Conrad Challenge (http://www.conradchallenge.org/) . Unlike any STEM competition out there, this annual event unleashes the potential of students to leave their mark on the world, using their innovation and entrepreneurial skills to address some of the most pressing global challenges. In its first 13 years, the Challenge has had student participants from more than 70 different countries.
Coaches and judges from the best in business, industry, research and academia worldwide will guide the teams\u2019 innovative ideas. In February 2019, five teams in each challenge category will be chosen as finalists and travel to the annual Innovation Summit at the\xa0 Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/) .
Finalist teams present their innovations before an esteemed panel of judges. Winning teams receive awards, investment opportunities, patent support, business services and scholarships to support the growth of their concepts into real businesses that can make real difference. At the end of the competition, teams maintain ownership of their Intellectual Property.
Interested teams should visit the\xa0 2019-2020 Conrad Challenge Overview (https://www.conradchallenge.org/) \xa0for more information on this year\u2019s competition. Expert judges will then select semi-finalist teams in each challenge category who will be invited to develop comprehensive business plans for their innovation.
America\u2019s Navy is proud to partner with the Pete Conrad Foundation to carry on the shared tradition of discovery, creativity and problem-solving. For the fourth year, the Navy will sponsor the Conrad Challenge for and present the annual America\u2019s Navy Gemini Award for Distinguished Innovation in the Spirit of Captain Pete Conrad to the team that best demonstrates the Navy\u2019s characteristics of teamwork, innovation and hard work. Navy subject matter experts will also serve as panel judges, offering feedback based on their professional experience and knowledge in medicine, aviation, cyber technology and engineering.
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About our Guest: Kristie LetterKristie Betts Letter teaches Innovation and Design Thinking in Colorado. She\u2019s spearheaded an innovation initiative which started as one strange elective class and evolved into a schoolwide collaboration with a required ninth grade class. Students in this initiative have won national social entrepreneurship awards including top awards in the Conrad Challenge, the World Series of Innovation, the Lexus Eco-Challenge, and the Adcap Challenge. Kristie\u2019s publications include a poetry...