Provost's Innovation Challenge @ Tangent - ONLINE
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Make a real impact with the Provost's Innovation Challenge @ Tangent!!
We know how important global and societal issues are to our students. At Tangent, Trinity’s Ideas Workspace, we are committed to empowering Trinity students to make a real impact on society and the world. This year we are once again running the Provost’s Innovation Challenge @ Tangent, and the Trinity community has voted for:
Sustainable Cities
We received loads of great ideas - you can sign up to join a team here: https://ideafairsustainablecities.eventbrite.ie
You can find more details on each idea, and the problem it will try to solve, here: http://tiny.cc/IdeaFairSusCities
You DO NOT need to sign up if you a) submitted an idea or b) were listed as a team member when the idea was submitted.
Structure of the Challenge:
Friday 20 November: 3.30pm Online kick-off of the Challenge, team building, ice-breaking, and scoping the problem with frontline experts. Workshop with Social Innovation Fund / Rethink Ireland.
Saturday 21 November: 10am - 5pm Solving the problem - working on creative solutions in groups and forming teams; mentoring sessions; and more. Mentor Madness, followed by introduction to
Sunday 22 November: 10am - 3pm Working on and communicating your idea; pitch practice and feedback.
3pm - 4pm Judging for the Provost's Innovation Challenge after which the winning team will be given €3,000! Our judges are Gavan Drohan, Head of Student Entrepreneurship at Tangent; Michael Guerin from Smart Docklands; and Lizzy Hayashida, CEO and cofounder of social enterprise Change Donations.
This hackathon will take place entirely online to keep our students safe - that doesn't mean we won't be creating a fun, innovative, and collaborative environment for you all to work in! A Zoom link to take part will be shared in advance for all students who have signed up to the Challenge.
Look forward to seeing you all soon!
Organiser Tangent | Trinity's Ideas Workspace
Organiser of Provost's Innovation Challenge @ Tangent - ONLINE
TANGENT, TRINITY’S IDEAS WORKSPACE IS A PLACE IN WHICH TO IMAGINE, COLLABORATE AND PUT INTO ACTION IDEAS THAT CAN CHANGE THE WORLD.
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin is committed to providing a transformative learning environment that fosters innovation and entrepreneurship at all levels across the university. The opportunities opening up today are infinite. They are invisible to some, impossible to others. Identifying these opportunities to students requires new tools and methods. Realising them requires imagination.
Tangent is a new unit in Trinity offering students, staff, and the wider innovation ecosystem programmes and events in innovation, creative thinking, and entrepreneurship. Through our masterclasses, innovation challenges, certificate programmes, hackathons, meetups, fireside chats, incubation space, and startup accelerator programmes – Tangent provides countless opportunities to innovate and imagine. All of which will be held in a newly developed bespoke innovation space on Trinity’s main campus.
IMAGINATION We inspire, challenge and provoke a creative mindset among our student population. Through effective education and supports, Tangent helps to spark our students’ imagination. We encourage curiosity and ideation. This is what helps us to create real impact.
COLLABORATION We embrace the creative fusion that happens when arts meet science, and education meets enterprise. Through collaboration we believe that when we come together with an open mind and embrace alternative ways of thinking, no challenge is too complex, no opportunity out of reach.
ACTION We do not stop at ideas. We create impact, disruption, and enterprises. Tangent values action. We encourage our students to try to create new possibilities. We deliver economic, cultural and social value through entrepreneurship. Our students perseverance enables their ideas to come alive.