Microsoft YouthSpark Challenge for Change
Course(s) Offered: Innovative ideas
Course Level: Contest
Provider: Microsoft
Country to Study in: Worldwide (and Nicaragua)
Scholarship Description
Microsoft YouthSpark is a companywide initiatory to exercise opportunities for 300 meg youth around the globe over the adjacent 3 years.
Have an persuasion for solving a social occupation inwards your community? Enter the YouthSpark Challenge for Change past times March 25th as well as y'all could win big. Everyone starts somewhere. Share your idea. Spark change!
The Microsoft YouthSpark Challenge for Change is a peril for y'all to portion how y'all spark modify inwards your world, or how y'all desire to! Whether y'all are already creating modify inwards your schoolhouse or community, or if y'all are gear upward to start, Microsoft wants to listen from you!
Eligibility
Open to individuals thirteen to 25 years of historic current at fourth dimension of entry (except must last fourteen to 25 inwards Korea as well as Spain, as well as xvi to 25 inwards the Netherlands).
GENERAL ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:
Submission Guidelines:
Course(s) Offered: Innovative ideas
Course Level: Contest
Provider: Microsoft
Country to Study in: Worldwide (and Nicaragua)
Scholarship Description
Microsoft YouthSpark is a companywide initiatory to exercise opportunities for 300 meg youth around the globe over the adjacent 3 years.
Have an persuasion for solving a social occupation inwards your community? Enter the YouthSpark Challenge for Change past times March 25th as well as y'all could win big. Everyone starts somewhere. Share your idea. Spark change!
The Microsoft YouthSpark Challenge for Change is a peril for y'all to portion how y'all spark modify inwards your world, or how y'all desire to! Whether y'all are already creating modify inwards your schoolhouse or community, or if y'all are gear upward to start, Microsoft wants to listen from you!
Eligibility
Open to individuals thirteen to 25 years of historic current at fourth dimension of entry (except must last fourteen to 25 inwards Korea as well as Spain, as well as xvi to 25 inwards the Netherlands).
GENERAL ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:
Submission Guidelines:
- Responses to questions must last inwards text format;
- Title of Entry must non top 15 (15) words.
- Response to each interrogation tin last no longer than 150 words;
- Responses as well as Title must last inwards English linguistic communication for English linguistic communication speaking judges;
- Photo must last of the entrant as well as must last inwards .jpg, .gif, or .png format;
- Photo must last no larger than 1MB inwards size;
- Photo must cause got been taken inside previous 12 months;
- Photo cannot cause got been submitted previously inwards a advertisement that would interfere alongside the rights requested past times the Sponsor inwards this Contest.
- Photo must non include trademarks, copyrighted materials or whatever images non owned past times Entrant without written permission, which must last provided upon request
Young citizens of ANY reason of the world
Participating Institutions
Microsoft Corporation.
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational firm headquartered inwards Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports as well as sells figurer software, consumer electronics as well as personal computers as well as services.
Contest theme(s)
Sparking modify tin last large or small, as well as everyone starts somewhere.
It tin last volunteering every bit a tutor or mentor to a immature person; organizing a local nutrient collection; developing an app or a game to address a community issue; participating inwards community events; speaking out for a motion the pupil cares about; or fifty-fifty starting an arrangement to back upward a favorite motion – no persuasion is also large or also small.
Prizes / Benefits
Microsoft is awarding exciting prizes to assistance y'all exercise to a greater extent than good. And, this year, the Challenge has been extended to thirteen to 17 twelvemonth olds! 15 finalists from each historic current grouping (13-17 as well as 18-25) volition win a Surface Pro 3 alongside Office 365*.
five grand prize winners from each historic current grouping volition win:
- An amazing leadership-development trip to Nicaragua to larn almost creating change
- $2,500 cash to assistance plow their ideas into a reality
- A Windows Phone*
- The chance to serve every bit a YouthSpark Advocate.
NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.
Open to individuals thirteen to 25 years of historic current at fourth dimension of entry (except must last fourteen to 25 inwards Korea as well as Spain, as well as xvi to 25 inwards the Netherlands). Contest void inwards Quebec, Canada; Cuba; Iran; North Korea; Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic as well as where prohibited.
How to Enter:
- Enter your contact details.
- Answer a few brusk questions almost your idea.
- Upload a photo.
Then the voting as well as thence is opened upward to populace voting to select the grand prize winners.
You volition last required to select your reason as well as come inwards your appointment of nascency to acquire started.
Please view the official website (link to it is below) for consummate data on how to apply.
DEADLINES:
The submission deadline appointment is March 25th 2015 at 12:00 PM ET / 16:00 GMT.
PLEASE NOTE:
In 2012, Microsoft announced the Microsoft YouthSpark, a company-wide, global initiatory to exercise opportunities for 300 meg youth past times 2015.
Through 30+ programs as well as partnerships alongside to a greater extent than than 350 youth-serving nonprofits, at the unopen of its minute twelvemonth Microsoft YouthSpark has created novel opportunities for to a greater extent than than 227 meg immature people inwards over 100 countries around the world.
Although in that location is much even thence to do, Microsoft is inspired past times what it has seen: immature people taking the Pb inwards changing non alone their lives exactly the lives of other around them, making a existent demeanor on inwards their local communities as well as on the global stage.
Application Deadline: 25 March 2015
Open to International Applicants:Yes
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