Challenges
Currys PC World are looking for students to become their ‘Tech Tester Team’. Whether you’re into gaming, movies, fashion, music, home & lifestyle, travel or just a complete tech enthusiast we want to hear from you!
This challenge is all about learning the language of the future- coding!
If every student in your school had a Raspberry Pi, how could it transform your school/college?
Are You The Next BIG Thing In Technology?
In a quest to discover and help develop emerging and early stage business start ups, Cisco has launched The BIG Awards.
After celebrating the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice yesterday, MyKindaCrowd want to inspire you to write! We want you to write a blog post that could then get published on our website and promoted on our social media. If we publish it, we would award you 75 points!
What would make the perfect jam? What do you want to spread on your toast in the morning? SuperJam are looking for new, innovative flavours to add to their list of award-winning jams! Do you have the secret recipe?
Your entry can take the form of a couple of sentences, an illustration, a list of ingredients or a whizzy one liner!! We want to hear your ideas!
MyKindaCrowd and The Complete University Guide are rewarding two lucky people with around the world plane tickets, £2000 spending money and a TEFL qualification! Tell us your dream destination and why you want to go.
Be your own merchandise designer for the Creative Youth Charity! Design a wristband, badge or a tshirt!
Ashley John-Baptise is starting his solo career as a singer songwriter, he's living his dream, but what's yours?
What can you do to make the service you experience in McDonald’s even better?
McDonald’s already recognise their responsibility to protect and preserve the environment for future generations. Now they want to go one-step further, and they need your help. How can McDonald’s become an environmental role model?
James Brown wants your help to design a brand new product that could help hairdressers all over the world. What do you think are the most common problems with hair?
Come up with an innovative product that you think can help solve this problem!
Supersize your art.
Imagine: your artwork up on a massive advertising billboard.
Horatio are looking for bright, talented young people who have the potential to become great entrepreneurs.
Apply if you have an existing business and are looking for investment to grow or you have an amazing idea that needs investment to get started.
KPMG's mission for school and college leavers is 'live, learn, earn'. They want to hear about your ambitions;
What do you live for? What do you want to learn? And what's your dream job?
Create a marketing campaign for an event to encourage sports activity for young people aged 18+. How will you ensure 100+ people attend? How will you promote the benefits? You'll need to get people excited and get people taking action!
What would you like to see introduced if you were in charge of designing products within the Goji range, or what would you do with the design of the existing product ranges? Think about colours and materials , packaging and branding.
So as an example, if you were designing a new bag from scratch, what would you do? Think about its form and materials – don’t forget the final touches such as pockets and zips. As well as thinking about how customers use their bags on a day to day basis; consider that the primary purpose is to hold valuable technology. Think about what bags are trendy as well as ensuring it is sturdy, durable and unique, as well as thinking about male, female and androgynous variants
Have you thought of something that you can't find the answer to? Well 'Ask the Experts' is the perfect challenge to find your answer!
Get Ready For Rio: Pick an Olympic Sport and create a dedicated training plan that will guarantee Team GB success in Rio. Your Prize – Get the qualifications to become a qualified personal trainer with a diploma in Personal Training worth over 3k.
How would you improve Britain? We are looking for ideas to improve Britain, and will reward the best ideas with great opportunities and prizes.
We want to hear your business idea! James is looking for a creative and innovative idea that you think will make a profit. Tell us why it is unique and how you will make sales.
We want your solutions! What help could we provide to ensure young entrepreneurs succeed? The sky is the limit - so think big and think creatively. Have your say and help young people succeed.
We want your solutions! What help could we provide to ensure young entrepreneurs succeed? The sky is the limit - so think big and think creatively. Have your say and help young people succeed.
Currys PC World need your help to design the technology experience of the future. How will you road test the latest gadgets? What will the tech experience of 2025 look like?
The Tech Playground. Currys PC World need your help to design the technology experience of the future. How will you road test the latest gadgets? What will the tech experience of 2025 look like? This is your chance to design the technology playground of the future.
What can you do to make the service you experience in McDonald’s even better?
Think of yourself as an animal person? Then this challenge will send you absolutely zoo-lally! MyKindaCrowd has teamed up with Room54 and Dartmoor Zoo's owner - Benjamin Mee (the real-life character played by Matt Damon in 2011's hit movie 'We Bought A Zoo') - in order to bring you the 'Animal Habitat Challenge'
Know what it takes to be an Olympic athlete?
Prove it by devising a training program for a friend and you could be rowing at the London 2012 Olympic Games venue with Beijing Gold-medalist and Team GB member, Mark Hunter MBE.
Know what it takes to be an Olympic athlete?
Prove it by devising a training program for a friend and your school could receive a visit from Beijing Gold-medalist and Team GB member, Mark Hunter MBE.
Are you an enthusiastic 19-25 year old committed to changing your community for the better? UpRising is a leadership programme designed to train and support the next generation of leaders.
Handwrite a letter to your ‘career icon’ and discover more about the industry, job or profession you are passionate about.
Handwrite a letter to your ‘career icon’ and discover more about the industry, job or profession you are passionate about.
Your challenge is to create a web based concept that is of value and benefit to IoD Student Members. This web based platform could promote engagement and interaction between our existing members and students, it may enable knowledge and idea transfer or encourage support, mentoring or funding. It may be inspirational, provocative or practical but will be an essential part of the IoD student space.
Your ideas don’t need to be technically specific, but they must support student members in becoming the Directors of Tomorrow.
Test your start-up credentials! James Caan has guided thousands of aspiring entrepreneurs… now it’s your turn. Your challenge is to evaluate James’ business idea and demonstrate to him that you’ve got what it takes to run his business.
International award winning manufacturers Gripple have teamed up with leading primary enterprise educators ‘Are You Ready?’ to create an environmental challenge to inspire creative young minds.
The challenge is to develop an idea for a product or service that would have an environmental benefit.
To support teachers and pupils with this challenge there are comprehensive learning materials to provoke and develop new ideas and innovations.
The deadline for this challenge is October 26th, 2012 - so this activity would make a fantastic way to kick-start the new academic year in an enterprising way.
Working with the RIKEN research institute in Japan, Fujitsu has recently announced the world’s most powerful computer – the K Computer.
Fujitsu is now looking for creative minds to address the challenge: ‘What would you do with the world’s most powerful computer?’
Working with the RIKEN research institute in Japan, Fujitsu has recently announced the world’s most powerful computer – the K Computer.
Fujitsu is now looking for creative minds to address the challenge: ‘What would you do with the world’s most powerful computer?’
If you were in the Bloc production team – what ideas would you have to bring to the table?
We want see your designs for a festival arena that utilises the unique space of the Docklands area.
Think big, think post industrial, think mindblowing, think Bloc.
We have a very big vision: To connect every student with the world-of-work, globally. And we’ve made a brilliant start! Now we are looking for an enthusiastic and talented Community Manager to help us promote the site and support our members. It could be you!
We want you to create a funny caption or tagline for one of the pictures below! MyKindaCrowd is all about generating imaginative ideas from young people, so we want your best one-liners. It might be the summer holidays, but that's no excuse to completely switch your brain off!
We want you to create a funny caption or tagline for one of the pictures below! MyKindaCrowd is all about generating imaginative ideas from young people, so we want your best one-liners. It might be the summer holidays, but that's no excuse to completely switch your brain off!
Using food sauces as your paint, we want you to create a picture, an image, or a doodle.
Using food sauces as your paint, we want you to create a picture, an image, or a doodle.
MykindaCrowd are giving YOU the chance to see U.S rap sensation B.O.B (plus special guests) as part of his Strange Clouds UK Tour at Indigo at the O2 Arena on Friday September 21st. All you have to do to win the two tickets to see the UK Chart-topper is like our Facebook page and then share the photo of the tickets.
MykindaCrowd are giving YOU the chance to see U.S rap sensation B.O.B (plus special guests) as part of his Strange Clouds UK Tour at Indigo at the O2 Arena on Friday September 21st. All you have to do to win the two tickets to see the UK Chart-topper is like our Facebook page and then hit share on the photo of the tickets.
We want you to devise a short rhyme or song describing your summer in as creative a way as possible, and we are offering a FREE 3-month subscription to Spotify Premium for the winner to enjoy for the remainder of the summer season!
We want you to devise a short rhyme or song describing your summer in as creative a way as possible, and we are offering a FREE 3-month subscription to Spotify Premium for the winner to enjoy for the remainder of the summer season!
If you’re interested in Enterprise, Business, Start- Ups and want to boost your career & employability skills then this challenge is for you!
Tell us what to include at out BootCamp and you could win a pair of tickets!
What would make the perfect jam? What do you want to spread on your toast in the morning? SuperJam are looking for new, innovative flavours to add to their list of award-winning jams! Do you have the secret recipe?
Your entry can take the form of a couple of sentences, an illustration, a list of ingredients or a whizzy one liner!! We want to hear your ideas!
What would make the perfect Olympic jam? What do you want to spread on your toast? What flavour jam would really get our athletes off to a good start in the morning? SuperJam are looking for new, innovative, summery, sporty flavours to add to their list of award-winning jams! Do you have the secret recipe?
Your entry can take the form of a couple of sentences, an illustration, a list of ingredients or a whizzy one liner!! We want to hear your ideas!
What would make the perfect Olympic jam? What do you want to spread on your toast? What flavour jam would really get our athletes off to a good start in the morning? SuperJam are looking for new, innovative, summery, sporty flavours to add to their list of award-winning jams! Do you have the secret recipe?
Your entry can take the form of a couple of sentences, an illustration, a list of ingredients or a whizzy one liner!! We want to hear your ideas!
more! magazine is part of a breathtaking portfolio of amazing titles. Your challenge is to add to this with a new exciting title aimed at a brand new market! We would like to see an impression of your magazines cover, detail of its content and ideas of why it would appeal to your target readers.
more! magazine is part of a breathtaking portfolio of amazing titles. Your challenge is to add to this with a new exciting title aimed at a brand new market! We would like to see an impression of your magazines cover, detail of its content and ideas of why it would appeal to your target readers.
more! magazine is part of a breathtaking portfolio of amazing titles. Your challenge is to add to this with a new exciting title aimed at a brand new market! We would like to see an impression of your magazines cover, detail of its content and ideas of why it would appeal to your target readers.
The renowned Pineapple Dance Studios are part of Europes Premier Dance Studios. Alongside the famous dance studio, Pineapple has created a popular clothing brand that is worn by dancers and celebrities alike! Your challenge is to add to Pineapple’s popular brand by designing a new top to fit in with one of the Pineapple themes; Ballet, Pop Bling and Rock.
UPDATE: We were so impressed by the standard of the entries, we decided to award first prize to TWO winners!
Congratulations to: Lolade Akande and Naomi Sheridan, who will both be shadowing the Pineapple design team in March!
The renowned Pineapple Dance Studios are part of Europes Premier Dance Studios. Alongside the famous dance studio, Pineapple has created a popular clothing brand that is worn by dancers and celebrities alike! Your challenge is to add to Pineapple’s popular brand by designing a new top to fit in with one of the Pineapple themes; Ballet, Pop Bling and Rock.
Every month TeenBiz sets a different challenge as the first part of the application process. We want to see talent, energy and creative thinking - so please tells us your ideas!
This months challenge: If you could run any business for the day, what would it be? What would you do there? What would you do differently? Do you think they need to change things?
This applies to any existing business.
Every month TeenBiz sets a different challenge as the first part of the application process. We want to see talent, energy and creative thinking - so please tells us your ideas!
This months challenge: If you could run any business for the day, what would it be? What would you do there? What would you do differently? Do you think they need to change things?
This applies to any existing business.
Look at your Community, look at your City, look at your World. What problems can you see foresee happening over the next fifty years? What can we do to solve them? What innovative solutions could you create?
Look at your community - what do you like about where you live? What would you like to change? What changes can you see happening in your local community? What changes would you like to see take place over the next 50 years?
Think creatively on each of the areas. Mind map ideas and come up with some innovative solutions and designs. Mind Map all your creative ideas, predictions and solutions. Briefly explain what they are and how they would work. Explain the impact & benefits your ideas will have.
You can use all your creativity here. Perhaps make a collage or map of your ideas. Use photography to illustrate your idea. Design a map of what your community would look like. Interview fictional inhabitants of your new community. Produce a sales brochure or a promotional film of your new community. Be as creative as possible.
If you’ve got ideas that could change the world, then join the challenge and you could be flying to Brazil to share your ideas with a global audience.
Your entry will take the form of an open letter to the UN Secretary General, describing your creative ideas and innovative solutions to global sustainability challenges (max world count 650). We invite you to use our platform to speak to the world!
Is there an issue that really affects you and other students, something that no one is doing anything about?! If you could make a change that will make a big impact to your student life in 2012, what would it be? studentbeans.com are looking for a campaign idea, however big or small, that they can bring to life.
We’re looking for young people between 14 – 21 years old to volunteer and create a running crew of their own in their own local area. Known as a Crew Leader, you will be responsible for encouraging young people in your area to come together and run as a group, while also sharing creative ideas and taking part in creative sessions.
We’re looking for young people between 14 – 21 years old to volunteer and create a running crew of their own in their own local area. Known as a Crew Leader, you will be responsible for encouraging young people in your area to come together and run as a group, while also sharing creative ideas and taking part in creative sessions.
Your challenge is to suggest practical ways in which society might use information and data in the future to reduce carbon emissions, improve sustainability and help avoid some of the unpleasant consequences of global warming.
Every month we see existing stories being retold in different ways. True life events are turned into TV Drama series, books, films and theatre. War Horse started life as a book, then moved onto the stage as theatre and is soon to be released as a movie. Your challenge is to take an existing story, and re-tell it in a different format.
more! magazine is part of a breathtaking portfolio of amazing titles. Your challenge is to add to this with a new exciting title aimed at a brand new market! We would like to see an impression of your magazines cover, detail of its content and ideas of why it would appeal to your target readers.
Thales is looking to maintain its position at the forefront of the training market. To help them achieve this we are looking to you to undertake a short study that looks at the key technological and social trends and their likely impact on how training will be delivered in 5, 10 and 20 years from now.
Twist & Pulse are set to be one of the biggest acts in UK entertainment following their success on Britains Got Talent. Your Challenge is to plan and organise a Twist & Pulse visit to your school.
Twist & Pulse are set to be one of the biggest acts in UK entertainment following their success on Britains Got Talent. Your Challenge is to plan and organise a Twist & Pulse visit to your University.
Climate change, resource depletion, destruction of ecosystems, ill health, economic recession and rising energy costs all suggest that we need to be doing things differently. The Eden Project would like you to use your photographic skills to show examples of adaptation occurring around you. The examples could show how animals, people or plants have adapted to changing conditions.
Engine Room Apps are at the forefront of application development and they need your help. iPhone applications have become a way of life for many people all over the world. Your challenge is an interesting one! Help Engine Room Apps create the next big iPhone app.
SuperJam do more than just make delicious healthy jam! We have also set up a charity called The SuperJam Tea Parties Charity! We want you to plan a tea party for a group of elderly people in your community that will give them a day to remember, you make the plan and we will supply the jam!
London Capital Groups Capital Spreads is a market leading Spread Betting service. Your challenge is to bring the service to a whole new client base, whilst engaging with existing customers through the development of a Social Media marketing strategy.
Spice Magic are aiming to demystify Indian cuisine through there range of easy to understand books, products and demonstrations.
Your Challenge is to develop a strategy to market their exciting new product!
Million Extra is our big idea to create a million extra apprenticeships by summer 2013. To help us achieve this we need more visitors to our website www.million-extra.co.uk. Your challenge is to create a series of banner ads to attract business people and potential apprentices to the site.
SuperJam are looking out for new, exciting products to add to their fantastic range of jams but they need your help! Your challenge is to come up with exciting new products that can be added to the SuperJam range. Can you think of exciting, fun new flavours or perhaps there’s a product out there that sits alongside our existing jams and they haven’t thought of it yet.
MyKindaCrowd is all set to make a big impact on the way students connect with companies and now is the most exciting time to come and join the MyKindaCrowd team.
We would like you to showcase your talents and to prove to us why you should join our team by designing a start-up strategy for MyKindaCrowd.
MyKindaCrowd is the latest and we believe the best student focussed website.
We take pride in our unique approach to establishing sustainable industrial links between aspiring students and big brands and want you to help us create a promotional pack to publicise the website.
Now that MyKindaCrowd is up and running we need to start talking about it!
In order to keep in touch with our contacts we need some funky new business cards - this is where you come in. We would like you to design the new cards to not only include our contact details but also to really embrace the ethos behind MyKindaCrowd.
This is an exclusive opportunity to Associates of The Alchemy Exchange at Sheffield Hallam University. We are looking for Associates to use, navigate and test the MyKindaCrowd site and feedback any flaws, drawbacks, bugs and positives about the site to ensure that the site will launch successfully.