The Young Technopreneur Challenge, sponsored by HP Inc. and supported by South West Community Development Council (CDC), aims to support students to take ownership of the world they live in and actively develop solutions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Singapore Green Plan 2030 and Sustainable South West Masterplan.
The challenge consists of 3 boot camps where students will develop their ideas, go through a rigorous design thinking process, research and prototype, as well as learn about the steps to becoming a technopreneur.
Student participation criteria:
- Secondary 2 & 3
- Except for the STEM bootcamp, all bootcamps and the Innovation Expo & Presentation will be held physically in person.
- Permission from parents is required to participate. Students & Parents need to sign a permission & media release form. This includes WhatsApp chat groups to be formed by the teams with their mentors, teacher and JA staffs for communication purposes.
- Bootcamp attendance, online self-paced courses, bootcamp feedback, Skilio self-reflection, mid-project submissions and introduction videos are all mandatory. These are all part of the final scoring criteria for the competition.
- Students who had participated in previous Young Technopreneur Challenge are not qualified to participate again.
Phases of the Competition:
1. Sustainability Plans – Select a problem related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals or Singapore Green Plan 2030 or Sustainable South West Masterplan.
2. Innovative Idea – In teams of 4 students, think of an idea to solve the problem. The solution will utilize STEM to make the world a better place.
3. Registration – For your registration, you must indicate your choice of the problem related to the Sustainability Plans that your team has chosen to address. (You don’t need to identify the specific issue yet.)
4. Online Courses – To increase the students’ communication skills and basic finance knowledge, 2 mandatory online self-paced courses (Business Communications and Basics of Finance) are required to be taken by the students.
4. Bootcamps - To enhance the learning experience for the Young Technopreneur Challenge, 2 bootcamps (design thinking, and pitching & presentation) will be required for all participants. STEM related (App writing) will be an optional bootcamp. The bootcamps will be conducted physically in person except for the App writing which will be online.
5. Innovation Expo & Presentation – All the teams will showcase their innovative ideas at the Innovation Expo & Presentation. Top 8 teams will be selected to advance to the final round of the competition to be held in the afternoon.
Dates (2023) | Activity |
Mon 15th May | Team registration deadline |
By Thurs 1st June | Complete online course Business Communications (Mandatory) |
Thurs 1st June, 9am – 4pm | Bootcamp 1 – Design Thinking (Mandatory in Person) |
Fri 5th June | Bootcamp 2 – STEM Skill – App Writing (Optional via Zoom) |
By Wed 14th June | Complete online course Basics of Finance (Mandatory) |
Fri 23rd June (9am – 12pm) | Bootcamp 3 – Pitching & Presentation Workshop, |
Sat 8th July | Innovative Idea Expo and Presentation (Preliminary & Grand Finals) (Mandatory in Person) |
Form groups of 4 from Sec 2/3 and submit the your choice of the problem related to the Sustainability Plans that your team has chosen to address. Please ensure that you are able to commit to the mandatory bootcamps on 1st and 23 Jun before you indicate your interest to me. There are very limited slots available and selection will be made for the final registration of the teams by SST.
Email us (choo_mui_luan@sst.edu.sg & ng_jun_wei@sst.edu.sg ) the following by 27 Mar 2023 to indicate your interest:
- 4 x Full names of group members and their class
- choice of the problem related to the Sustainability Plans that your team has chosen to address