NUS MUFG DELL
Ready to make your mark on the world? Join us in innovating with technology for a sustainable future!
Introduction
The HumanITy Challenge is a sustainability innovation competition designed exclusively for pre-university students. We’re inviting aspiring young talents in Singapore to put their creative problem-solving skills to the test, and develop ideas that leverage the power of IT to tackle society’s sustainability challenges for humanity.
Hosted by the NUS Department of Information Systems and Analytics, the Challenge is a journey of learning, creativity and networking. You’ll discover the latest technologies (like AI) and their potential to drive meaningful and lasting change in society. The final day of the competition will showcase the ideation and solutioning abilities of the finalist teams.
With opportunities to learn, explore and connect, this will be an experience you won’t forget. Sign up for this unique opportunity now and innovate with IT for a sustainable future!
Why Participate?
A creative problem-solving showdown where you can make an impact
The competition will truly test your abilities to solve sustainability challenges – from climate change to community well-being. Your innovative spirit will meet the power of IT as you work in a team to develop ingenious solutions to pressing problems.
Hands-on learning from the faculty and students of NUS Computing
Our priority is to provide you with the right ideation and solutioning paradigms needed in today’s ever-changing, global climate. Guided by our professors and students, you’ll experience new ways to think about addressing challenging sustainability issues, and get close to groundbreaking developments in technologies. You’ll also meet like-minded peers, industry experts and mentors along the way!
Prizes and surprises!
Besides the glory of winning, there’s more to discover and win – including prizes, summer tech internship opportunities with industry partners!
Problem Statement
Developing a sustainable world has never been more critical. As our society progresses, innovations should mindfully integrate the long-term economic, social and environmental needs of our world.
Economic Sustainability
We want to improve the long-term standard of living and economic health of communities and people. Innovation, productivity and economic models should promote responsible and efficient use of resources.
Social Sustainability
We want to promote inclusive and resilient societies where people are treated fairly, equally and are empowered to grow.
Environmental Sustainability
We want to be responsible in how we use and manage natural resources. This includes protecting natural habitats, conserving energy, reducing pollution and waste, and ensuring a healthy planet for future generations.
We believe IT plays a pivotal role in accelerating our progress to a more sustainable world. New technologies act as a catalyst for innovation and change, improve efficiency and productivity, and enable wider access and smarter use of resources.
The HumanITy Challenge
Identify a pressing issue within one of these three pillars of sustainable development. The problem should be significant, with clear implications for sustainability and the well-being of economies, societies or environmental ecosystems.
Your team should develop a comprehensive and IT-driven sustainability innovation that addresses the core of the problem. Your solution should be sustainable, feasible, and scalable, with the potential for real-world implementation. It should consider policy and/or social change as part of its strategy.
In this context, sustainability innovations could result in new or adapted technology-driven businesses, services or products, or even new technology development.
Eligibility
- Student participants will need to form teams of 4 to register for the competition.
- All 4 team members must be enrolled in a full-time, pre-university educational institution (eg. Junior College, Polytechnics, IB year 5/6).
- Team members need not be from the same institution or year.
- All team members must attend the HumanITy Challenge Launch Event on May 18, 2024 (Saturday) in NUS.
- Each team is required to have an Adult Liaison (could be a parent, teacher or an adult at least 21 years old) to be an adult and emergency contact person. The Adult Liaison will be copied on all communications to the team and may provide support and mentorship to the team if he/she would like to.
Join Us in Taking Action !
Prizes
Timeline / Tasks
Mark the start of the Challenge by meeting sustainability innovators and practitioners, NUS faculty and students and other participants. Learn more about the problem, deliverables and judging criteria, build relevant problem-solving skills and have all your burning questions answered.
HumanITy Challenge Acceleration (Online workshops and Trainings)
Work with your team on your solution, while building new technical capabilities through our online enablement workshop and mentorships
Participant teams must submit their ideation and solutioning presentations for preliminary round evaluation in the form of a (max) 10-minute video by 13 July, 2024 (23:59 hour).
The top 10 teams will be announced and will advance to the final round of competition.
Finalist teams to submit the slides for the Final Pitch
Participating Schools
- Anderson Serangoon Junior College
- Anglo-Chinese Junior College
- Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)
- Eunoia Junior College
- Hwa Chong Institution (Junior College)
- Nanyang Junior College
- Nanyang Polytechnic
- National Junior College
- Ngee Ann Polytechnic
- NUS High School of Mathematics and Science
- Republic Polytechnic
- Singapore Polytechnic
- St. Andrew’s Junior College
- Temasek Junior College
- Temasek Polytechnic
- Victoria Junior College
Finals
Congratulations to the following teams that have made it to the Finals!
- ACEnders
- Bug Eating Birds
- Dover Poly
- Duckies
- ew22poly
- Fourward Thinking
- IT girls
- Max Effort
- Mickey’s Clubhouse
- Temasek Technopreneurs
Panel of Judges
- Andy SIM, Vice President, Managing Director, Dell Technologies Select (APJ)
- Colin CHEN, Head of ESG Finance, APAC, MUFG Bank
- Richard WILKINS, Founder and CEO, Wilkins.ai
- TAN Bee Teck, Assistant Chief Executive (Admin and Social Cluster), GovTech/ CIO Ministry of Education
- Terence CHIA, Assistant Chief Executive of Corporate Group and Resilience & Cybersecurity Group, Infocomm Media Development Authority
Guest of Honour:
Mr Terence Chia, Assistant Chief Executive of Corporate Group and Resilience & Cybersecurity Group, Infocomm Media Development Authority
Sponsors
Big thanks to our valued sponsors, whose support fuels our mission and innovation.
Platinum Sponsors
In-kind Sponsors
Contact Us
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at humanity@comp.nus.edu.sg
