About Us
Our goal is to inspire and help students connect the skills they've learned with real-world application. We want to foster curiosity and a mindset of innovation, entrepreneurship, and leadership. .. and also help you jump-start a professional network.
Our goal is to inspire and help students connect the skills they've learned with real-world application. We want to foster curiosity and a mindset of innovation, entrepreneurship, and leadership. .. and also help you jump-start a professional network.
If you are looking for an opportunity to try out a "non-geeky" friendly hackathon event - and want to make social impact, check us out. We engage mostly university students, but also high-school and recent grads.
If you are looking for an opportunity to try out a "non-geeky" friendly hackathon event - and want to make social impact, check us out. We engage mostly university students, but also high-school and recent grads.
Our Social Innovation Challenge format helps in four ways:
Our Social Innovation Challenge format helps in four ways:
1 - Design Thinking
1 - Design Thinking
Design Thinking is a methodology that helps us to breakdown problems and come up with innovative solutions. It is useful for tackling complex problems that are not well defined or unknown by understanding the human needs involved, re-framing the problem in human-centric ways, coming up with ideas, building prototypes, and testing possible solutions. Students learn to collaborate effectively, but more importantly to get to the core of the challenges that they are confronted with,and how to find innovative solutions.
Design Thinking is a methodology that helps us to breakdown problems and come up with innovative solutions. It is useful for tackling complex problems that are not well defined or unknown by understanding the human needs involved, re-framing the problem in human-centric ways, coming up with ideas, building prototypes, and testing possible solutions. Students learn to collaborate effectively, but more importantly to get to the core of the challenges that they are confronted with,and how to find innovative solutions.
2 - Mentors
2 - Mentors
Good advice is hard to come by, so we connect students with mentors in a setting where they get to see, hear, and collaborate with individuals who have experience in various industries. Sometimes the mentors learn a thing or two from students too.
Good advice is hard to come by, so we connect students with mentors in a setting where they get to see, hear, and collaborate with individuals who have experience in various industries. Sometimes the mentors learn a thing or two from students too.
3 - Contextual learning (through social challenges)
3 - Contextual learning (through social challenges)
Rather than give you a made up problem to solve, we work with charities and public services provide us an interesting business or social challenge. The output of the Social Innovation Challenge typically has real practical application for the charity or public service (our customers).
Rather than give you a made up problem to solve, we work with charities and public services provide us an interesting business or social challenge. The output of the Social Innovation Challenge typically has real practical application for the charity or public service (our customers).
4 - Diversity
4 - Diversity
We demonstrate the need for collaboration between people of all backgrounds such as designers, developers, architects, lawyers, psychologists, teachers, and more, to find and build solutions that are meaningful and consequential.
We demonstrate the need for collaboration between people of all backgrounds such as designers, developers, architects, lawyers, psychologists, teachers, and more, to find and build solutions that are meaningful and consequential.
For any inquiries, please reach out to Geoff Bazira siymc.org@gmail.com
For any inquiries, please reach out to Geoff Bazira siymc.org@gmail.com
We’re looking for partners!
We’re looking for partners!
Non-profits, government, educational groups who want to invest in empowering youth while building up innovation capacity.
Non-profits, government, educational groups who want to invest in empowering youth while building up innovation capacity.
