Biomimicry Youth Design Challenge 2025

Deadline: December 31, 2024

Applications are open for the Biomimicry Youth Design Challenge 2025. The Biomimicry Youth Design Challenge (BYDC) is a free, hands-on, project-based studying expertise that gives classroom and casual educators with a framework for introducing biomimicry and an interdisciplinary strategy to science and environmental literacy. Working in groups supported by an grownup coach and subject-matter consultants, college students discover the wonders of the pure world and apply what they be taught to create improvements in help of a more healthy planet.

Design Brief

Design Brief: Solutions to a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)

Your Challenge

Explore the wonders of the pure world and create a nature-inspired innovation that addresses any international or native drawback by: Helping communities resolve a neighborhood problem AND/OR reversing/slowing the development of a problem that’s negatively impacting the neighborhood.

• An innovation might embody the design of a bodily expertise, a course of, or a system. Basically, any new strategy for a way individuals can do issues. Demonstrate originality both by proposing a wholly new answer or providing novel enhancements on current concepts.

The Problem

Our impression on the atmosphere is destabilizing, and our starvation for vitality, supplies, and different sources is quick increasing, leading to mounting unfavourable penalties to the planet and billions of individuals. To keep away from the worst penalties of our unsustainably designed merchandise, methods, and processes, we should discover methods to learn to design extra sustainably. The excellent news is that our planet’s biodiversity presents an array of doable options which can be simply ready to be found!

What Will Your Team Do?

Your staff will tackle the function of innovators and work collectively to apply biomimicry (nature-inspired innovation) to handle a social and/or environmental problem associated to a selected Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). Suggestion: suppose regionally!

As a coach, you’ll information your college students as they examine how organisms in nature have tailored to comparable issues and challenges, and you’ll help them in making use of what they be taught to revolutionary options. Final tasks can then be entered into the web exhibition and awarded prizes.

Eligibility

• Open to center and highschool college students (US equal grades Sixth-Twelfth).
• A TEAM consists of the person or 2 – 8 scholar staff members with no less than one grownup COACH who will talk with POCACITO on behalf of the staff. No scholar could also be on a couple of Team, nonetheless coaches might advise a number of groups.
• TEAMS and COACHES have to be affiliated with a public college, non-public college, registered homeschool, or a legally acknowledged group (corresponding to a museum, nature middle, after college program, youth company, and so on.). If you don’t fall into these classes, contact [email protected] earlier than registering on this case.
• Coaches could also be educators, volunteers, or dad and mom/guardians working with the Team’s affiliated group. Coaches have to be age 18 or older.
• TEAMS could also be composed of scholars from assorted grades, nonetheless if any staff member is in grade Ninth-Twelfth (highschool) that staff should compete in the highschool class.
• They settle for entries from colleges exterior the US.

Submission Requirements

Entries are submitted on-line and embody the next parts:

• Written challenge overview
• Project picture
• Video pitch
• Project portfolio
• Team photograph

Application

Coaches can register their groups of two to eight college students right here. Only coaches might register a staff. Beginning December 2, coaches can be invited to the BYDC platform, the place they’ll create their staff profiles and may join with different taking part educators.

For extra info, go to Biomimicry Youth Design Challenge.