Tribe x HCi3 Youth Climate Pitch Competition 2025 ($5,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: March 30, 2025

Calling all innovators, entrepreneurs, researchers, and college students! Do you may have an thought for an answer that may contribute to advancing clear vitality? If so, apply for the Tribe x HCi3 Youth Climate Pitch Competition 2025!

Tribe Network and the Halifax Climate Investment, Innovation and Impact Fund (HCi3) are searching for racialized youth in Nova Scotia between the ages of 16 and 30 to submit their pitch for an opportunity to win as much as $5,000!

The Youth Climate Pitch Competition goals to showcase progressive concepts and tasks that contribute to advancing clear vitality options and decreasing greenhouse fuel (GHG) emissions. This problem gives a platform for racialized younger innovators, entrepreneurs, researchers, and college students to pitch their concepts and prototypes to a panel of specialists and business leaders.

Challenge Details

Make certain that your pitch deck might be considered inside 2-3 minutes (no extra, no much less), and that it addresses one of many 4 largest sources of GHG emissions within the province:

• Electricity: Burning coal, oil, and pure fuel for electrical energy generates GHG emissions. Transitioning to renewable sources like wind, photo voltaic, hydro, and geothermal reduces our reliance on fossil fuels and makes the electrical energy grid cleaner.
• Transportation: Cars, vans, buses, and planes burn gasoline or diesel, releasing GHG emissions. They can decrease emissions by selecting shared transportation (buses, trains, carshares), lively transportation (biking, strolling, skateboarding), and electrical autos—particularly as their electrical energy grid turns into greener.
• Buildings: Buildings contribute to GHG emissions through the use of oil and fuel for heating, sizzling water, and electrical energy. They even have “embodied emissions”, that means the manufacturing of supplies like concrete and metal generates vital emissions.
• Energy: Using much less vitality for day by day actions—whether or not at home, work, or in transportation—is vital to chopping emissions. Energy-efficient buildings, home equipment, and journey selections assist cut back total vitality consumption and assist local weather motion

When you’re formulating your thought and proposed answer, take into consideration the result. How will your answer do a number of of the next?

• Inspire or encourage behavioural change (e.g. use examples and show advantages to inspire individuals to stay extra sustainably)
• Improve academic consciousness (e.g. use studying assets, campaigns, or interactive instruments to show how we are able to stay extra sustainably)
• Build capability and expertise (e.g. equip people and communities with the data, coaching, and assets wanted to take part in and contribute to the rising clear financial system)
• Improve entry (e.g. develop availability and accessibility of sustainable choices, by simplifying data or making eco-pleasant options extra extensively accessible)
• Reduce monetary boundaries (e.g. make it simpler or extra inexpensive for individuals to make sustainable selections, resembling financing fashions, incentives, or shared possession applications)

Prizes

Prizes can be awarded per class to assist additional growth and implementation of profitable improvements. 

• Category 1 ($5,000) – High college college students (ages 16-18)
• Category 2 ($5,000) – Post-secondary college students (ages 19-23)
• Category 3 ($5,000) – Graduate Students/Young professionals (ages 24-30)

Eligibility

• Open to racialized youth residing in Nova Scotia (those that are Black, Indigenous, non-Caucasian in race or non-white in color).
• Groups can embody a mix of racialized and non-racialized contributors however have to be a minimal of fifty% racialized.

Judging Criteria

Submissions can be evaluated primarily based on the next standards:

• Innovation and Creativity: How distinctive and progressive is the answer?
• Feasibility and Technical Viability: Is the concept technically possible and scalable?
• Impact and Sustainability: What is the potential constructive affect on the setting and society?
• Market Potential: Is there a transparent market want and potential for adoption?
• Presentation Skills: How successfully is the concept communicated?
• Team Diversity: Does the crew convey various views to the challenge?
• Partnership Potential: Is there potential for collaboration with present organizations or authorities our bodies?

Application

Pitches can be accepted from people and teams, as much as a most of 4 individuals per crew. Three finalists can be chosen from three age classes (16-18, 19-23 and 24-30), and groups can be notified between March 31 and April 7. You will then have entry to a roster of mentors that will help you refine your thought. Finalists will current their closing pitches in entrance of a panel of specialists, traders, and business leaders on Thursday, May 15.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Youth Climate Pitch Competition.