Innovation Challenge
Taking place in schools across the North East, the challenge is designed to engage your students with the process of innovation by identifying problems in their local community and creating innovative products or services to solve them.
This challenge has been developed by the STEM Ambassador programme, in collaboration with Innovate UK.
Students will set up a small team to identify a problem and create a product or service that solves this problem, while taking part in a number of engaging activities throughout their journey. Designed to enhance their understanding and knowledge of enterprise, entrepreneurship, and employability skills, and improve their confidence and motivation.
There are 12 modules for students to work through, including business planning, marketing, employability skills, pitching and finance.
The challenge will take approximately 12
hours to complete and can be delivered either
as an after-school club, during curriculum
time or as part of an Enterprise Week. Each
team will be provided with an ‘Innovation
Ambassador’ from a local company who will
support the team throughout the challenge.
