赛智推荐: Invent Your World

SAGE China提供这样一个平台，如果您的团队符合以下项目的标准，希望您鼓起勇气参与其中，实现梦想，。
详细内容请见以下链接 ：
http://www.inventyourworld.org/rules.html
Project ideas are evaluated and grants are awarded on an ongoing basis. The final deadline is March 15, 2009.

Eligibility Criteria

The challenge is open to all youth between the ages of 12 and 20 in North America and Europe and 12 and 24 everywhere else. (Proof of age will be required before grants can be approved.)
Each participant is limited to one grant.
Each participant will be required to submit an action plan showing what activities will be carried out and how the grant will be spent.
Each participant will need to form a team with at least two other youth to qualify for funding.
Participants under age of 18 must have parental or guardian support and approval to receive grants and launch projects.
Ideas and action plans should be submitted before March 15, 2009 in English, Spanish or French.
Assessment Criteria

Grants will be awarded to projects that best meet the following criteria:

Innovation – Project uses a new or adapted technology to address a local or global challenge.

Impact – Project has potential to produce significant or measurable impact on the issue it addresses.

Sustainability – Project has potential to produce on-going positive change. In other words, it’s not a one time event.

Youth-led and youth-driven – Leaders of the project should be between 12 and 20 (North America and Europe) and 12 and 24 (everywhere else).

Global Roundtable on Climate Change - A panel of distinguished judges will choose five of the best invention ventures to participate in a global roundtable on climate change at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Scholarship Grand Prize – From the pool of invention ventures, judges will also award one team a $20,000 scholarship to pursue their university education.

General Guidelines

Deadline – The last day to submit a project idea is March 15, 2009.
Grants – Up to 50 grants will be awarded for this challenge.

Entries – Submit an idea first. If your idea meets our criteria (see above), we will send you an application (an “action plan”) to apply for a grant. We welcome all ideas, even if they are similar to ideas other youth have submitted.

SAGE’s Core Values:

We believe in the importance of teenagers to our global community

We hold our work and that of our youth to high expectations - we will constantly challenge them to ask more of themselves and others.

We aim to keep at the cutting edge and continually build upon our social return on investment at every level

We believe every teenager is capable of making the world a better place

We believe entrepreneurship—both social and commercial entrepreneurship—is a powerful way for teenagers to create better futures for themselves and others

We believe that caring, supportive peer team and adult mentors are essential for teenagers to fully explore their potential and develop into capable and productive global citizens

We believe that meaningful participation in the world beyond school is essential for youth to develop the skills and competencies necessary to be contributing citizens

We believe we have a responsibility to nurture the next generation of leaders

We believe that investing in youth building social enterprise is the most effective and efficient way to create a socially responsible, just world.

We believe there is no better way to get at the root of social ills and to maximize one’s social return on investment.