At the centre of #CHANGETHENOW Movement is the Changemaker Challenge. The #ChangeTheNow Changemaker Challenge, if you choose to accept it, is where we work together to hack a wicked problem.
At the centre of #CHANGETHENOW Movement is the Changemaker Challenge. The #ChangeTheNow Changemaker Challenge, if you choose to accept it, is where we work together to hack a wicked problem.
This time around, the Changemaker Challenge will unite interested and participating educators, faculty, schools, organizations and community leaders to try to answer:
How We Might Contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals? How Might We Evolve?
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a collection of 17 global goals designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all". The SDGs were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030.
The SDGs are a global movement to tackle our many wicked problems. Wicked problems are intertwined with other problems and have many stakeholders, all with different ideas about what causes them and what the solutions could be.
The UN Sustainable Goals (SDGs) recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.
We believe together, as a region, we can open up a catalogue of many possible paths to help our neighbourhoods and communities contribute locally to the SDGs . If we provide you with the knowledge and resources to answer our challenge, would you join us contributing to the UN Sustainable Developments?
Move at the speed you need!
The best way to participate in The Changemaker Challenge is to join as a team.
Teams can be comprised of students from (K - Post-Secondary), teachers, faculty, community members, businesses, organizations - anyone who is interested in creating impact in their local community!
Teams work through a sequence of innovation stages to focus on how they will
answer the Challenge’s question - How Might We Contribute to the UN Sustainable Development.
Every Team gets a Team Page, providing them access to innovation tools and
resources to understand and explore the problem, ideate, prototype and model a conceptualized solution.
As teams progress through their ideas they unlock levels, providing them access to more resources that can help bring a team’s work to fruition. Once a Team has unlocked all levels they can apply to submit and present their ideas at several community showcase events happening in April and May 2021.
In January 2021 - Register Your Team
Invite Others to Join You and Set Up Your Team Profile
Unlock your first block of resources and get started!