Fall 2021 Bright Spark Invention Challenge

BrightSpark™ is a social innovation initiative of Bridge Innovate® designed to ignite creative confidence in students and educators by utilizing design thinking, education workshops, coaching, and providing free online resources to help solve design challenges.Students build critical thinking, collaboration, and communication skills, as well as essential "designer" skills, which include empathy, brainstorming, creating, experimenting, failing, and trying again. Learn more at www.bridgeinnovate.com/brightspark.

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2021 Bright Spark Fall Invention Challenge

Sponsored by Bridge Innovate

<h2>INVENTION CHALLENGE (October 1 - 29, 2021)</h2>Participation is free • Program is virtual from start to finishCalling all inventors! We are excited to announce the 2021 Bright Spark Virtual Invention Challenge. To get started, work individually or form a team to identify a challenge you want to solve and follow the steps below.

<h2>HOW TO PARTICIPATE</h2><ul><li>Register to participate. Team up or participate as an individual. The deadline to register is September 24, 2021.</li><li>Create a new service or product that solves an existing problem.</li><li>To showcase the invention prototype, generate a 90-second pitch video introducing what you’ve designed.</li><li>Submit your video! Videos will be used for public voting to determine the finalists. A judging panel will select the winners from the finalist group.</li><li>Attend virtual award ceremony on November 18, 2021!</li></ul>View previous pitch videos <a href="https://www.bridgeinnovate.com/invention-challenge-winners" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>. Looking for more opportunities? Check out the 2021-2022 Bright Spark programs on our <a href="https://www.bridgeinnovate.com/brightspark" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">website</a>. <a href="http://bridgeinnovate.com/brightspark" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Bright Spark</a> offers programs for students 4th-grade through college to build design skills such as empathy, problem-solving, prototyping, and experimenting to innovate new solutions applying design thinking.Teachers annually report their students to grow in critical thinking, problem-solving and collaboration skills—all while having fun. Students also grow in empathy. By continually practicing design thinking, students begin to more frequently see the world through the eyes of others.Contact Mary Kim, director of Bright Spark, at <a href="mailto:mkim@bridgeinnovate.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">mkim@bridgeinnovate.com</a> to learn more.

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