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The Challenge
Solve the problem
You don’t need any startup experience or even an idea yet to participate. Each year, you can choose from real-world challenges aligned with your passion, energy, and talent, and develop that into a viable solution.
Your mission? Build your team and work together to solve a grand challenge.
Brainstorm, prototype, and refine real solutions with support from the Resource MatriX, your toolkit for expert mentorship, AI tools, and more.
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Evidence-Based Decisions
Build products fueled by real user feedback and hard evidence.
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Multidisciplinary Collaboration
Collaborate across disciplines to build solutions that work in the real world.
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Real-World Impact
Step out of the classroom and into the market to test ideas against real-world constraints.
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Investment ready
Go beyond the prototype. Build a validated, scalable venture that is ready to pitch for seed capital.
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What the judges look for
Evidence over promises.
Here's how qualifying teams are scored.
Product-Market Fit
30%
Context Quality
20%
Source-Array Discipline
20%
Commercial Path
15%
Safety and Privacy
10%
Media Relevance
3%
Founder Readiness
2%
Source-Array Discipline means making fair comparisons, preserving important qualifications, and acknowledging gaps. Teams must also meet all required milestones, retention and paid-demand standards, and product safeguards. Official Rules govern.
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