ChallengeUS Future Leaders Competition – Summer 2025 – YOA

Deadline: July 25, 2025

Applications are open for the ChallengeUS Future Leaders Competition – Summer 2025. The ChallengeUS Future Leaders Competition goals to critically interact and amplify youth voices from everywhere in the world in civic concepts and challenges. The competitors seeks to search out, highlight, and reward promising future leaders by scholarship prizes and award recognition. For this summer time cycle, the competitors is asking college students to check their future and what they hope their nation accomplishes by the yr 2050.

Participation within the ChallengeUS Future Leaders Competition gives the OPPORTUNITY to affix the ChallengeUS Future Leaders Network (international neighborhood of younger changemakers), safe money prizes that may be put in the direction of academic {and professional} pursuits and achieve public recognition for distinctive work.

Competition Prompt: Summer 2025

As we journey alongside the twenty first century, the challenges going through international locations everywhere in the world are solely turning into extra advanced. However, with each problem comes the chance to think about one thing higher. What’s one factor you hope your nation accomplishes by the yr 2050? What steps have to be taken to understand your imaginative and prescient?

Categories

• Creative Writing: Entries may embody private narratives, reflections, tales, poems, written speeches, memoirs, and different private essays that handle the immediate whereas showcasing the author’s essential considering, private expression, and storytelling talents. The emphasis is on originality, private voice, and interesting the reader with considerate perception in addition to emotional depth.
• Analytical Writing: Entries may embody argumentative essays, analysis papers, literature opinions, case research, and different types of tutorial writing that makes use of sources and citations to drive key insights. Submissions are anticipated to current effectively-researched, proof-primarily based essays that handle the immediate. The emphasis is on logical reasoning, structured evaluation, and the power to help solutions to the immediate with details, examples, or information.
• Speech: Entries may embody any type of verbal speech or presentation submitted in a video kind. Speakers are welcomed to make use of inventive and/or analytical methods of their speech submission. Visual aids are permitted however the emphasis will probably be on efficient verbal communication whereas offering distinctive views, concepts, and insights addressing the immediate.

Prizes

• One total First Place winner will probably be acknowledged together with three “Best in Class” honorable mentions (one from every submission class). This means 4 college students, in complete, will probably be acknowledged.
• The total First Place winner will probably be awarded $500 (USD).
• The total First Place winner and the three “Best in Class” honorable mentions will probably be spotlighted in a biographical article by ChallengeUS.
• The total First Place Winner and the three “Best in Class” honorable mentions will obtain a Certificate of Achievement and their submissions will probably be printed by ChallengeUS.
• All members will achieve entry to the worldwide ChallengeUS Future Leaders Network.

Eligibility

• Any scholar, residing in any nation, at present enrolled in an accredited highschool or undergraduate faculty/college, is eligible to take part.
• Students taking tutorial hole years or semesters are additionally eligible.
• Submissions (speech or writing) should be in English.
• Participants from earlier competitors cycles are eligible to enter the present competitors cycle, besides those who gained first place in any earlier ChallengeUS competitions.
• Any use of AI or plagiarism is strictly prohibited and can lead to automated disqualification.

Guidelines

Creative Writing Guidelines

• Word Limit: 1250 phrases
• Writing submissions ought to be in PDF format with a readable font measurement (11 or 12 pt.) and an expert font fashion (Times New Roman, Arial)
• Entries may embody private narratives, reflections, tales, poems, written speeches, memoirs, and different private essays that handle the immediate whereas showcasing the author’s essential considering, private expression, and storytelling talents

Analytical Writing Guidelines

• Word Limit: 1250 phrases
• Writing submissions ought to be in PDF format with a readable font measurement (11 or 12 pt.) and an expert font fashion (Times New Roman, Arial)
• If analysis is included, any quotation fashion (MLA, APA, Chicago, and many others.) will probably be accepted and citations is not going to depend in the direction of the phrase restrict
• Entries may embody argumentative essays, analysis papers, literature opinions, case research, and different types of tutorial writing that use sources and citations to drive key insights

Speech Guidelines

• Speech Limit: 10 minutes
• Speech submissions ought to be in MP4 format
• High audio and video high quality is anticipated
• Entries may embody any type of verbal speech or presentation submitted in a video kind. Visual aids are permitted however speech high quality would be the foremost analysis standards

Application

For extra data, go to ChallengeUS Future Leaders Competition.