HACKATHON CHALLENGES
Capsule Hack has identified six challenge categories that intersect with the environment in meaningful, impactful ways. At Capsule Hack, we aim to develop innovative projects for problems at these intersections of the environment and six challenge categories: Art, Education, Energy, Health, Food, and Cities.
EDUCATION
All of our hackathon challenge categories are intentionally broad in order to encapsulate the many education-related ideas that have the potential to improve the planet. Everything is welcome—VR/AR teaching experiences, education access, mentorship programs, open data sets and research, environmental activist networks and services—if you can dream it, we want to see it. Submit a project idea here!
CHALLENGE PARTNER
Each of Capsule’s challenges has one or more Challenge Partners. These Challenge Partners are passionate about their category and invested in supporting projects coming in under their challenge. Our Challenge Partner for Education is Climathon Climate-KIC.
Climathon Climate-KIC
The largest climate action collective of its kind, uniting people in the thousands. Climathon powers a global wave of change makers and innovators to help humanity achieve zero emissions in 20 to 30 years.
INSPIRATION
Here are some incredible projects around the world that have us inspired! No idea is too outlandish. Find your next steps through Capsule’s Innovation Pipeline.
Developed by PwC and in cooperation with Rooftop Immersive Studio and The Ark, The NextGen SDG Experience is an interactive, 20 minutes VR-experience and game exploring the SDGs. The game, which can be played as a team, challenges players in co-creation to realize a sustainable world in 2030. This experience focuses on children between 10 and 16 of age and aims to make them aware of the relevance of the United Nation Sustainable Development Goals and to inspire them to act.
Stanford’s Earth Program is a project is an exemplary case of documenting in detail the full circle of curriculum development, teacher professional development, classroom implementation, data collection and analysis, and curriculum revision before further implementation. At each stage, there has been an ongoing evaluation to both inform the project and to provide a better understanding of the unique demands and requirements of climate change education.
Youth Climate Leaders is a global network offering a comprehensive solution to catalyze climate careers and actions. Their approach equips climate leaders with immersive training that encompasses transdisciplinary learning and professional placements while accelerating capacities through global connections between climate practitioners, experts, and young leaders. Through these efforts, YCL is working to tackle youth unemployment while increasing the number of skilled climate professionals to solve one of this century’s most pressing challenges.