The Conrad Foundation is opening online voting on March 29 where the public will help select top young entrepreneurs in the Spirit of Innovation Awards.
The Conrad Foundation's Spirit of Innovation Awards competition brings together teams of high school students to address the grand challenges of the 21st century by creating products using science, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship in four categories:
The Aerospace Exploration category encompasses a wide variety of topics ranging from vehicles to spacesuits to planetary exploration to satellites, and many other related subjects including space medicine.
Planetary exploration is related to exploration of the Moon or other planetary bodies, such as Mars. Unmanned spacecraft (such as the Mars Rovers or the Cassini-Huygens mission) are often the current explorers the great unknown, but future missions involving humans are on the horizon.
The Green Schools category provides students with an opportunity to create innovative solutions to help their schools move towards sustainability.
For learning to be effective, it is important that the school environment advances and promotes education. Yet, sometimes it is the institution itself that hinders successful learning. For example, the indoor environment of schools may have poor ventilation, resulting in increased cases of asthma among students.
The Renewable Energy category includes an array of topics of renewable energy sources such as solar (photovoltaic cells) to wind energy to biomass fuels as well as many other sustainable solutions.
The global awareness of climate change is a relatively new development, and in response to the issues that come with a warming planet many new inventions and technologies have surfaced. Renewable energies such as wind energy and solar energy may have been around long before our warming climate reached headlines, yet today they are seen as key components that can offer alternatives to our reliance on carbon emitting fossil fuels.
The Space Nutrition category takes a different form, inviting students to design and formulate a nutrition bar for use in space flight
Please refer to the Spirit of Innovation website for more details: http://www.conradawards.org/
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