Make your Mark

Create for Good Challenge

During this time, our communities, schools, and families are facing all types of challenges with the COVID-19 outbreak. However, through it all we have seen some inspiring creations and inventions designed by people to help in any way they can! The Make your Mark: Create for Good Challenge tasks students with the challenge of creating a solution that will benefit their school, community, family, or the planet during this current time. Students are our future change makers and learning to create for good today will lead to a better tomorrow for everyone!

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Congrats to the Winners!

Middle School

  1. Pandemic Pennants - Trinity MS

  2. Killing Covid-19 in Amusement Parks - Albert Gallatin MS

  3. Cares Crates - Albert Gallatin MS

High School

  1. No Touch Shopping Trip - Avella HS

  2. Create for Good - University HS, WV

  3. Desktop Surface Cleaner - Frazier HS


Challenge Info:

Middle School (6-8) and High School (9-12) Students will have from May 1, 2020 to May 29, 2020 to develop their solution to address the current COVID-19 concerns, which may include but are not limited to ways to open doors, deliver food, clean highly used public areas and more! Students can use any materials to create their project from cardboard to coding, the choice is theirs.

There will be First, Second and Third place winners selected from each grade division (6-8 and 9-12). Selected projects will win prizes: students will be able to select a gift card of their choosing from a list of up to ten gift cards and teachers will win a monetary prize for their classroom/school. See the rubric for scoring details. Students and teachers will be notified no later than June 15, 2020.

Challenge is for schools in the following counties:

  • Pennsylvania: Fayette, Greene, and Washington

  • West Virginia: Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Hancock, Wetzel, Barbour, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis, Marion, Monongailia, Preston, Randolph, Taylor, Tucker, and Upshur

  • Ohio: Belmont


To get started follow the simple steps below:

THINK: Start brainstorming. What problem will you solve? What will your solution need to do to address your problem? How will you make your mark and create for good?

MAKE: Research your idea and create a solution. Gather your materials needed to begin to prototype (cardboard, paper, computer, etc.)

REVISE: Finished creating and designing? Now test your solution. Will it work? How could it be improved? Keep track of what you learn and improve or add more details to your solution.

SHARE: Use the provided online template (see link below) to share your solution and the problem being addressed. Explain your project and how you created it, changes you made along the way, and don’t forget to include a blueprint, sketch, or prototype (picture or video).

Contact:

Sarah D'Urzo | IU1 Coordinator for Innovation & Design | sarah.durzo@iu1.org