World's Challenge Challenge – Faculty of Education

World’s Challenge Challenge

We are proud to announce UBC is one of eighteen participating universities in this year’s World’s Challenge Challenge. Student teams will compete by presenting to a panel of academic and community leaders on a global challenge and how they plan to solve it. The winning team members each receive a cash prize of $2000 and a chance to compete in the international competition at Western University in London, Ontario in June 2019. The first prize winners get a total of $30 000 and the second prize group will receive $15 000. The intention for the prize money is to help further develop and implement the proposed solution.

The Challenge

The World’s Challenge Challenge is a competition hosted by the UBC Global Lounge, which seeks to engage students on international issues and how they can play a part in sparking social change.

Teams of students pitch their solutions to global problems for a chance to win $6000 and to go on to compete in the International World’s Challenge Challenge, for a top team prize of $30,000.