About the challenge

Ideate is a hybrid two-day design-thinking conference filled with awesome speakers, workshops, and a design challenge to explore how design and innovation interact. Ideate aims to observe how design thinking can be applied across fields and is open to design aficionados, curious newcomers, and everyone in between!

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Register for Ideate at our website: https://ideate.hackduke.org/

$1,500 in prizes

• Solution
  How much potential for social impact does the solution have? How well does the solution address the problem it seeks to solve? How well does the prototype serve as an effective proof of concept?
• Customer
  Is the customer well-defined?
• Actionability/Growth
  Ease of testing/Prototyping Ability to scale Effectiveness of future potential funds (be creative!)
• Innovation
  Why now? Demonstrates how the idea is unique/different