CATEGORIES
Advertising
Campaigns designed to draw attention to social issues and inspire people to act or to promote world-changing products or services.
Campaigns designed to draw attention to social issues and inspire people to act or to promote world-changing products or services.
Apps
Projects that live primarily in a mobile format, in any discipline.
Projects that live primarily in a mobile format, in any discipline.
Consumer Products
Items for your house or office that help you live a more purposeful life, or fundamentally alter outdated business models or supply chains of our current consumer goods.
Developing World Technology
Products designed specifically for the developing world, both ones intended for the bottom of the pyramid and those intended to help create leapfrog innovation.
Products designed specifically for the developing world, both ones intended for the bottom of the pyramid and those intended to help create leapfrog innovation.
Energy
Solar, wind, and any other innovative ideas to create clean power (either for personal use or at a large scale) or new systems for better electricity distribution.
Solar, wind, and any other innovative ideas to create clean power (either for personal use or at a large scale) or new systems for better electricity distribution.
Food
Projects changing what we eat, how we eat, and how we get our food.
Projects changing what we eat, how we eat, and how we get our food.
Health
Products and projects that improve either personal or global well-being and longevity, from apps to devices, to new medical equipment.
Products and projects that improve either personal or global well-being and longevity, from apps to devices, to new medical equipment.
Photography and Visualization
Any visual or creative project that helps explain and publicize global problems and solutions.
Any visual or creative project that helps explain and publicize global problems and solutions.
Students
Projects in any category, created by undergraduate or graduate students.
Projects in any category, created by undergraduate or graduate students.
Transportation
Projects that get you places—whether on two wheels or four—in new, interesting, and fuel-efficient ways.
Projects that get you places—whether on two wheels or four—in new, interesting, and fuel-efficient ways.
Urban Design
Buildings, landscapes, and programs that make cities—and living in them—cleaner, more efficient, more beautiful, and more equitable for their citizens.
Buildings, landscapes, and programs that make cities—and living in them—cleaner, more efficient, more beautiful, and more equitable for their citizens.
General Excellence
The broadest ideas, be they new government policies, new business models, or entire new consumer categories. Anything that has the potential to effect true systems change or solve wicked problems.
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