138 applications, 459 pupils and 41 students and 126 teachers from all over Poland - this is the result of recruitment for the first edition of the Solve for Tomorrow educational program under the auspices of Samsung. The jury selected 25 teams that will work on their ideas on health, climate and security.
Solve for Tomorrow is Samsung's educational program that was announced in September. Recruitment for the semi-finals of the first edition of this action has now ended.
The program was open to students from secondary schools with their teachers, as well as students of the first and second year of first-cycle studies. In the first stage, the participants chose the challenge they wanted to work on in the coming months.
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Solve for Tomorrow - what exactly is it about?
The Solve for Tomorrow program was created so that young people could face the challenges of the modern world by creating projects that will help solve their biggest problems. Young people pointed out three most important issues - taking care of the mental condition of their generation, supporting the weak and protecting the environment.
Teams that have progressed to the next stage will be supported by mentorship from Solve for Tomorrow ambassadors. It is a group of experts specializing in various fields of knowledge necessary to implement projects. Participants will also take part in Design Thinking workshops and sessions with Samsung volunteers.
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The teams prepared in this way will test and develop an idea for solving the problem of their choice. Then, from the video reports of the effects of activities, projects are selected that will go to the final phase.
Programme semi-finalists
Of the completed applications, 60 related to health, 45 to climate, and 33 to security. The voivodeships that can boast the highest number of submitted ideas are: Mazowieckie (24), Śląskie (23) and Wielkopolskie (19).
The jury selected 25 teams that will go to the next stage. The ideas were evaluated by: Piotr Stelmachów, Vice President and Head of Consumer Electronics at Samsung Electronics Polska, acting as the chairman of the jury, Maria Andrzejewska - general director of UNEP/GRID-Warsaw, prof. Halina Brdulak (Warsaw School of Economics), prof. Bolesław Rok (Kozminski University) and Zuzanna Polak - head of the Cybersecurity Awareness Building Team at NASK.
The following qualified for the semi-finals:
The full list of finalists (educational institutions) can be found at this address.
The Solve for Tomorrow program is under the patronage of the Ministry of Climate and Environment, Centrum GovTech Polska and NASK. The partners of the project are the Copernicus Science Centre, UNEP/GRID-Warsaw, the Digital Dialogue Association and Zwolnieni z Teorii.
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