WELL DONE TO ALL OUR WINNERS!
#1
Lindiwe Maqasha
Age: 16
Focus: Social
Idea: Using teens to buy for the elderly
#2
Mpho Chinowa
Age: 15
Focus: Health
Idea: Making masks for community
#3
Kreeti Panday
Age: 16
Focus: Health
Idea: Masks for children sizes
#4
Remoratile Morake
Age: 16
Focus: Education
Idea: PPE for schools
#5
Nomthandazo Ndlovu
Age: 17
Focus: Technology
Idea: Cyber security for youth
OTHER WINNERS MAKING UP THE TOP 10
Amukelani
Age: 16
Focus: Health
Idea: Relief centre for abused women and children
Luke Rissik
Age: 18
Focus: Education
Idea: Notes share online for students
Kgotlelelo Mahlodi Mohlala
Age: 16
Focus: Food
Idea: Getting kids back to school safely
Michael John Olivier
Age: 16
Focus: Education
Idea: Online education app
Lucy Breitenbach
Age: 17
Focus: Education
Idea: Notes for school sharing online
OUR SPONSORS:
Competition closed on 29th May.
The COVID-19 pandemic has got us thinking of solutions given the many problems that have come to the open. Most of these problems were not anticipated. As a global child and community member you can opt to go completely into isolation and wait for the problem to go away somehow OR you can start to put your very creative mind to working on solutions to the countless problems in your family, community, village, town, country and the global village.
The SA Teen Entrepreneur Trust COVID-19 Idea Challenge is aimed at high school students across the whole world. The purpose is to immediately let loose our creative and innovative mind-set and see if we can find some ways to quickly assist humanity get through this crisis in a more positive way. Your ideas should be focused on what you can personally achieve with resources available to you or which you can harness or easily implementable to your community or communities around the world in similar situations.
The challenge:
Either individually or in a group/team, you need to identify one of the many problems that need solving and come up with a solution as to how it might be addressed. There are no strict parameters other than it needs to be a problem that has resulted from the pandemic. Examples could be to do with things like home schooling, communicating with isolated people, eating healthily in isolation, dealing with food distribution, developing world and how they can cope are just some of the examples.
We have a number of resources on our website that can assist you in your creative journey. You are also encouraged to join the SA Teen Entrepreneur family via: https://teenentrepreneur.co.za/join/
Every submission will be reviewed as long as the student has followed the process and submits their ideas and solutions in the agreed format. The top ideas will be invited to an online pitching event in front of a group of investors and mentors. For those ideas that are deemed feasible and innovative, funding will be arranged to help you take them to the next stages.
This is a totally free program which we are running as our contribution to helping the world cope and recover from this terrible pandemic.
Covid-19 Idea Challenge Roadmap Download
If you would like to be invited to participate, all we need is for you to fill in the form below and we will contact you with the next steps. The program starts on April 4th so register now. Competition closes 29 May 2020.
Landi Jac
Landi Jac is the Global Director of Worldwide Business Intelligence, a company dedicated to the education of entrepreneurs across the world. Qualified with a Masters Degree that combines Economics and Industrial Psychology, Landi’s message to entrepreneurs places equal importance on business and mind.Her signature IP (Intellectual Property) includes The Money Train™, IBUT™, The High-End Product Design Process™ and other unique holistic methodology that supports entrepreneurs with cutting acknowledgments blueprints, infographics and systems that take the white noise away from business and give a solid platform to grow through.
As part of the executive board of the Circle of Excellence Group, Landi guides the global growth of five companies in the personal and professional development field. She is a Certified Senior Consultant through the IIOPC* and trusted advisor to award-winning business leaders from all over the world including several global association presidents, TedX Speakers, Ernst & Young Award Winning Entrepreneurs and Celebrities.
Mike Handcock
Mike Handcock is Chairman and Founder of the Circle of Excellence Group, an international organisation that gives business owners access to prosperity, freedom and purpose. For over ten years he has worked with 300,000 entrepreneurs in over fifty countries. Acknowledged as one of only thirty three speakers in the world to be certified globally (Global Speaking Fellow, CSP*), Mike has contributed to the industry as an international speaker regularly visiting six continents, as well as the official chairman of the GSF’s* “Leader to Legacy” Global Speaker Summit 2018. He is multi-award winning, with most recent acknowledgements being New Zealand Speaker of the Year, New Zealand Educator of the Year and now a Life Member of NSANZ*.
His philanthropic activities have been acknowledged by a US President, including setting up model villages in India for education and major support of orphanages in Cambodia. Mike serves on the Board of the Sage Foundation as well as the Global Dialogue Foundation, an organisation that promotes dialogue between cultures and religions worldwide. His 2010 film ‘Dreamcatchers’ has reached over 500,000,000.
Acknowledged as one of only thirty three speakers in the world to be certified globally (Global Speaking Fellow, CSP*), Mike has contributed to the industry as an international speaker regularly visiting six continents, as well as the official chairman of the GSF’s* “Leader to Legacy” Global Speaker Summit 2018. He is multi-award winning, with most recent acknowledgements being New Zealand Speaker of the Year, New Zealand Educator of the Year and now a Life Member of NSANZ*.
His philanthropic activities have been acknowledged by a US President, including setting up model villages in India for education and major support of orphanages in Cambodia. Mike serves on the Board of the Sage Foundation as well as the Global Dialogue Foundation, an organisation that promotes dialogue between cultures and religions worldwide. His 2010 film ‘Dreamcatchers’ has reached over 500,000,000.
Sabirul Islam
Sabirul Islam is world-renowned Inspirational speaker, entrepreneur and author of 3 self-help books. With over 14 years’ experience in the world of business, speaking and writing, Sabirul has inspired over a million people in 31 countries and published 3 bestselling books, his first titled ‘The World at Your Feet’ which he wrote at the age of just 17.
He has been deeply passionate to inject practical enterprise learning and promote financial education across the academic platforms, which led to Sabirul developing his Teen-Trepreneur board game which has been licensed out to 14 countries worldwide.
Now aged 29, Sabirul will be launching the ‘Build Your Confidence on Stage’ book (December 2020) and online training course to encourage other to kick start their career in public speaking. This is supported with a weekly series hosted by Sabirul on the Build Your Confidence on Stage YouTube channel.
Sabirul strongly believes in living life with purpose, value and meaning. Living and breathing his motto “Born to Serve, Live to Inspire.”
To get in touch with Sabirul or book him to speak at your event, visit: www.sabirulislam.co.uk
For Schools looking to run a session using the Teen-Trepreneur board game, please visit: https://www.sabirulislam.co.uk/schools/
To download the Teen-Trepreneur Board Game app for free visit Google Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Deam71.ttf&hl=en
Logan Guleff
Logan Guleff has been named one of the Most Influential Teens by Time Magazine and a James Beard Blended Burger Winner. Since becoming the 2014 MasterChef Junior champion he has become a rising star in the culinary world. He was named Southern Living‘s Best New Southern Cook and earned a spot on Fortune Magazine’s 18 Under 18 list; he’s also the youngest certified judge for the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest in Memphis, Tennessee, and the youngest chef to cook at the historic James Beard House in New York City. He has judged the International Young Chef Olympiad in India and has launched his first cook, “Logan’s Chef Notes and Half Baked Tales”, which won Gourmand’s Best in World for first cookbook. He has also given a TEDx talk on the “The Art of the Flavor”. And in summer of 2019, Logan was a “Take Note” winner at the Teen Choice Awards in Los Angeles, CA