Contest and Showcase

Contest and Showcase

Logos for World Smarts STEM Challenge and IREX

 

Video of the World Smarts Contest and Showcase

Watch the IREX World Smarts STEM Challenge Contest and Showcase. The event occurred on March 18, 2017.

The Contest and Showcase was the culminating event of the World Smarts STEM Challenge. Four months ago, 17 binational teams composed of over 250 high school students from the US and Ghana embarked on a collaborative virtual exchange to discover and create innovative STEM solutions to the following challenges:

  • defend your community against hazardous waste or
  • repower your community's energy use.

Team concepts were put on display through the World Smarts Virtual STEM Fair. A selection committee and IREX representatives chose the finalists from the Virtual STEM Fair submissions. Learn more about the World Smarts STEM Challenge »

The Contest and Showcase featured a contest between the finalist and runner-up teams for the grand prize. Binational teams composed of Ghanaian and US high school students presented their prototypes and concepts at the event to a panel of expert judges.

To learn more, e-mail worldsmarts@irex.org.

Our Partners

This World Smarts STEM Challenge was made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Grand Prize

Congratulations to the grand prize winner: Big Bang... Brains of the World!

The winning team will receive support to market their innovation to angel investors, crowdfunding initiatives, and corporate partners to further develop, prototype, pilot, and market their idea. The World Smarts STEM Challenge will match up to $10,000 in funds raised.

Finalists

Grand Prize: Big Bang... Brains of the World!

Edinaman Senior High School from Elmina, Ghana

Eleanor Roosevelt High School from Prince George’s County, Maryland, USA

Solution: Generating Electricity through Soil

 

First-Place Finalist: McKwiny

Winneba Secondary School, Winneba, Ghana

McKinley Technology High School, Washington, DC, USA

Solution: Indigenous Water Purifier

 

Second-Place Finalist: The Energizers

Accra Academy from Accra, Ghana

Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School from Washington, DC, USA

Solution: A Cleaner Footprint, One Footstep at a Time: Repowering Kinetic Energy using Piezo-Mats

 

Third-Place Finalist: Green Innovators

Presbyterian Boys Senior High School, Accra, Ghana

International High School at Langley Park, Prince George’s County, Maryland, USA

Solution: Exhaust Filter

 

Honorable Mentions

Team: STEMULATORS

Cardozo Education Campus, Washington, DC, USA

Methodist Girls Senior High School, Mamfe, Ghana

Solution: Bamboo as a Green Infrastructure | Watch the video »

Team: STEMovators

HD Woodson High School, Washington, DC, USA

Swedru School of Business, Agona Swedru, Ghana

Solution: Indicator Mobile Filter | Watch the video »

Snapshots of the World Smarts Experience

World Smarts STEM Challenge 2016

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