The Dell Social Innovation Challenge identifies and supports promising
young social innovators who dedicate themselves to solving the world's
most pressing problems with their transformative ideas. We provide
university students with world-class teaching and training, as well as
with start-up capital and access to a network of mentors and advisors.
Anyone and everyone can join our growing online social innovation
community and support students on their projects. Only currently
enrolled university and college students may create project entries and
compete in our annual grand prize competition.
Our Dell Social Innovation Challenge annual competition is open to
ALL university students in the world–-it doesn’t matter what school you
attend or what you’re studying. And you don’t need a venture plan to
enter. Everything from early-stage ideas to mature projects that are up
and running can compete to win. Your innovation project could be vested
in starting a nonprofit organization, a for-profit business, a
campaign, community volunteerism, university club or even other informal
or formal operations. Your individual user profile gives you an option
to find project team members, join existing teams, attract support and
help others on their projects.
Competitions & Awards
Competitions & Awards
We offer and give out over $350,000 annually in cash and in-kind
prizes. Our Grand Prize Awards are chosen by judges, offering five cash
prizes totaling $140,000.
View Prizes and Awards for the Dell Social Innovation Challenge Grand Prize Awards and People's Choice Awards here: http://www.dellchallenge.org/about/2013-prizes-and-awards.
Dell Education Challenge
Dell Education Challenge
The Dell Education Challenge
rewards university students who develop the most innovative ideas to
transform learning in today’s primary schools. Finalists will be flown
to Austin, Texas in December 2012 to make their final pitch at Dell
World, a gathering of more than 4,000 global Dell customers. Teams will
pitch live to a panel of judges for one of these cash awards:
- $10,000 Grand Prize
- $5,000 Second Prize
- $2,500 Third Prize
Plus, Dell will select a handful of additional "Promising Projects"
and provide cash awards from $500 to $2,000 designed to enable
field-testing of the most promising ideas. Learn more about the Dell
Education Challenge at dellchallenge.org/k12.
PROJECT COMPETITIONS: FOUR PHASES
PROJECT COMPETITIONS: FOUR PHASES
We offer four project entry categories to reward and support
innovations at all phases of social impact development. You can submit
as many project entries as you’d like in any phase.
Define: social impacts and the innovation driving
them exist conceptually in your head, or you've a few general ideas with
limited research at this point.
Design: impact potentials are taking shape as
project execution assumptions are tested with potential
customer/beneficiaries, beginnings of formal internal and external teams
and some details on project pilot locale and test elements are
captured.
Pilot: the innovation project has been tested with a
small group of customer/beneficiaries and is getting verifiable
impacts. Team continues making project improvements based on live
experience in the field.
Scale: the innovation has proven successful at
achieving social impacts in more than one geographic area. The project
has sustainable financial and human resource models with strong
leadership and strategic partner support in place.
JUDGING CRITERIA
JUDGING CRITERIA
We’re looking for social innovations. What’s a social innovation?
It’s an idea that significantly improves results around existing social
or environmental problems. We’re looking for innovations that can grow
to create global impacts, so your passion and abilities to drive such
growth are also as important as your innovation idea.
Our DSIC-Certified Judges will evaluate projects using three primary criteria:
- Clarity of the innovation and significance of social impacts potentials.
- Demonstration of a high probability of success.
- Potential impact from winning DSIC.
HOW TO ENTER
Entering is free and easy! You can enter as many projects as you’d like, in any phase.
Entering is free and easy! You can enter as many projects as you’d like, in any phase.
Join. Complete your profile here.
Build. Create your team by adding members, or find a team to join.
Create. Complete your project page, which serves as your official competition entry.
Learn. Build your influence to learn new skills for improving your project.
Connect. Explore our community to find interesting people and projects worldwide.
Build. Create your team by adding members, or find a team to join.
Create. Complete your project page, which serves as your official competition entry.
Learn. Build your influence to learn new skills for improving your project.
Connect. Explore our community to find interesting people and projects worldwide.
