Epe Impact Program

Epe Innovation Challenge

About epe innovation challenge

The Epe Innovation Challenge for Senior Secondary Schools aims to foster creativity and innovation amongst secondary students in Epe. The Challenge seeks to incorporate a project/problem-based learning model to engage Epe students in solving real-world challenges both within their locality and in the global landscape, thereby fostering community and global development. 

This year’s focus is Food Security. 

Student-teams provide technology-enabled solutions that solve the challenge of FOOD SECURITY under the following thematic areas:

◉ Food Production
◉ New Recipes for Medicinal and Nutritional Foods
◉ Food Preservation
◉ Technology that Improves the Experience of Food Consumption

The students representing their schools will be required to create teams of three students together with a teacher-mentor to help them fine-tune their ideas and innovation, which will then be pitched before judges in succeeding stages of the Challenge until the selected finalists pitch at the Grand Finale.

INNOVATION CHALLENGE
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Eligibility

All Senior Secondary Schools in the 3 LCDAs in the Epe community including both Private and Public secondary schools are eligible to participate in this Innovation Challenge.

Interested schools are to register their intent with the thematic area of interest online through a link that would be provided in the invitation sent to them.

Participating schools are to provide a team of three (3) students and a teacher-mentor.

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Stages

Application Process

01
General Application (First-Round)
Interested schools are to register within the timeframe allotted for the first round of application with written proposals of their idea. 20 schools will be selected to move to the next round of the application.
02
Semi Final (Second Round)
Schools that make it to the second round are to present the prototype of their idea to a set of virtual judges. 8 schools will be selected to move to the final stage of the application.
03
Grand Finale
Schools that make it to this stage are to present their fully-fledged idea in front of 5 judges in a location that will be communicated to the general public.

Reward

Of all the schools that register their intent, 8 schools will make it to the Grand Finale.

The winner of the Innovation Challenge will go home with a cash prize of N250,000 with a 60-30-20% for the students, school and the teacher-mentor respectively.

The first runner-up will go home with the cash prize of N200,000 with a 60-30-10% for the students, school and the teacher-mentor respectively.

The second runner-up will go home with the cash prize of N150,000 with a 60-30-20% for the students, school and the teacher-mentor respectively.

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Goals to be achieved

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Social Impact

Through this Innovation Challenge, students in Epe have an opportunity to affect social impact in their community.

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Nurture Young Minds

The students of Epe have a critical role to play in the future of the community, hence, as part of the Epe Impact Project, the Innovation Challenge stands to secure a bright future by nurturing these young minds to embrace skills like creativity, problem-solving, innovation and critical thinking.

Resource Files

Participant's Guide
Innovation Challenge Brochure