Idea Inspiration
Looking for inspiration as you come up with your great idea? Here are just some issues we saw tackled by youth in previous years:
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Starting a community-led urban garden in your home city
Developing a mobile app to revitalize indigenous languages
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Organizing a program to promote the adoption of clean energy
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​Initiating a social media campaign for the climate movement
Launching a sustainable online clothing trading system
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Improving on underwater surveys using machine learning tech
Grand Prize Winners
In Youth Impact Challenge’s first two years, we received hundreds of innovative, youth-led ideas from diverse teams all across Canada. Here are the teams that took home our Grand Prizes in 2021 and 2020!
2021
2021 Winner - Social Stream: ConchShell
Wearable American Sign Language translator to improve user independence. Featured in the Toronto Star.
Jin Schofield
Sarvnaz Alemohammad
Sherry Shu
2021 Winner - Environmental: Peko Produce
Vancouver’s first delivery service for imperfect or "peculiar" produce. Featured in the Daily Hive and at TedX UBC.
Sang Le
Arielle Lok
2020
2020 Winner: Voltx
A machine learning product to accelerate the testing time for supercapacitors and batteries. Featured on FLIK .
Alishba Imran
Shagun Maheshwari
Anna Heer