Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge 2024-2025

Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge 2024-2025 is now open for entries!

Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge 2024-2025: The annual Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge 2024-2025 now in its 12th year is opened for entries and offers cash prizes and free entrepreneur mentorship in a competition open to all university students around the world inviting them to submit a design on this year theme “Reimagining Education and Learning for Long Lives“.

Short description

The 12th annual Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge 2024-2025 recently has been announced forentries.

The theme for this edition is “Reimagining Education and Learning for Long Lives“.

To fully engage with our long lives, we must change our approach to learning and education. Rather than going to school for a fixed number of years when we’re young, the Stanford Center on Longevity’s New Map of Life envisions learning new knowledge and skills throughout our lives, regardless of age.

Recognizing the integral relationship between education, health, and longevity, the challenge emphasizes the importance of innovative approaches that promote cognitive, physical, and financial well-being across the lifespan. From incorporating movement into learning environments to ensuring that everyone has the skills they need for whatever changes come their way, including switching careers or dealing with new technology, there are many opportunities to broaden our understanding of learning and establish it as a lifelong pursuit.

Students are invited to create solutions that expand or rethink education and learning opportunities at any age, particularly those that close opportunity gaps and ensure equitable access to educational opportunities for all, regardless of socio-economic background or age.

Students from all majors/fields of study are encouraged to submit a design. Designs can be products, programs, apps, or services.

The Challenge will be judged by experts in design and technology including carefully selected academics with expertise on the topic; executives from technology and consumer goods firms; venture capitalists; and senior representatives from related mission-driven organizations.

Judging Criteria:

➜ 40% Impact – will the design improve long life outcomes?
➜ 30% Originality – has this idea been seen before? Is there something similar to it on the market?
➜ 20% Feasibility – will the design work? Can it be produced at scale?
➜ 10% Affordability – teams must identify their target population for the design. Would the cost of the design at scale make it a viable product for that population?

The 5-8 Finalist teams will be announced on January 29, 2025. The Final competition will be held at Stanford University in April 2025.

Who may enter?

The challenge is open to teams of 1-5 students enrolled during the 2022-2023 academic year, attending any accredited university or college globally. Each team must have at least one full-time student and if the team is selected as a Finalist, only students may present.

Prize:

Top winners receive cash prizes of $10,000 (1st place), $5,000(2nd place), $2,000 (3rd place). Finalists receive a $1,000 cash prize and mentorship from industry experts and researchers.