This is from Lesley Boney, by way of the Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI), and is a great opportunity for our bright, highly motivated students! Note that the ideas they received spanned a very wide range of disciplines!
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Last year NC State’s Institute for Emerging Issues http://www.ncsu.edu/iei/)
kicked
off a new prize, designed to recognize innovative, creative university
students. The “Emerging Issues Prize for Innovation” grew out of
recommendations from the Governor’s Innovation Council’s “Talent
Committee” (which several UNC representatives and UNCGA sit on) as part
of a larger strategy to remind students as early and often as possible
that they can and must think innovatively if we are to succeed as a
society.
Last
year’s prize competition asked college students to propose creative
solutions to reduce childhood obesity. I got to be a judge. We had GREAT
ideas that connected education and public and private resources with
volunteers, existing programs and new resources, and the submissions
proved that we have a new generation of talent moving through our
schools that can rock the world. The competition attracted solutions
(some whacky; many wonderful) from students in the field of public
health, the sciences, marketing, journalism, medicine and literature
(!).
This
year’s topic for Emerging Issues is focused on young people (sometimes
known as Generation Z or M, or the “internet generation,” but basically
current high school age and down, see http://www.ncsu.edu/iei/?page_
