Design Challenges.
We start with a theme and end with a potential new enterprise.
Young Change Agents runs design thinking challenges for young people that focus on a specific theme and take students through empathy, ideation, validation and prototyping. In these programs we work with partners or schools to select a challenge that we share with students. Students then explore the problem, conduct empathy interviews and develop, validate, prototype and pitch a solution.
We also run quarterly nation-wide design challenges that young people can enter as individuals or with a team.
We can also work with organisations to design challenge themes that align with areas where they’d like to get student perspectives and ideas. If you have an opportunity you want young people's perspectives on please reach out!
Current challenges.
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Climate Action Youth Design Challenge
Be part of the race against climate change! Join our Climate Action Youth Design Challenge running from November 2021 - April 2022
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Challenge #2
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
How to bring the Future of Fashion. Forward.
We coupled young fashion entrepreneurs with the leaders in fashion today to develop new and innovative concepts in fashion.
Bridging connection with fashion leaders with aspiring future entrepreneurs opened new doors for our participants.
Imagine the possibilities for youth equipped with financial skills sooner in life.
We only need to see booming financial opportunities around us to understand how financial aptitude and confidence might propel a young person’s future.
Financial skills are important both professionally and personally, yet for many people, money isn’t something we talk about at home or really understand how to manage.
This challenge aimed to break this cycle equipping young people with essential financial skills to set them up for their future.
I came in with the mentality that I couldn’t make a difference, but honestly I am leaving with the reality that I can.”
Youth Participant
Some of the other topics we’ve run challenges on include:
How might we help people impacted by Coronavirus now and in the future?
How might we increase responsible production and consumption of resources?
How might we stop cyber bullying?
How might we innovate the food we consume?