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Go Big From Home: Dream Makers Wear Masks
Our June 5th Reverse Pandemic Hackathon has since passed, but you can still join and #GoBigFromHome to help flatten the curve, even in isolation! We had dozens of amazing and creative entries, but small acts of consideration and thoughtfulness are just as important and as effective at ending the pandemic.
Staying at home, social distancing, and wearing a mask are all easy ways you can help flatten the curve and keep those you love safe. Masks help protect those around you, and create herd immunity–helping protect those that are immunocompromised or unable to wear one themselves.
Put your imagination to use and decorate your masks with fabric paint, or sew one out of a fun, patterned fabric. We at Dream Tank love all sorts of creativity–not just in entrepreneurship! Tag us in pictures with your mask @wearedreamtank and use #GoBigFromHome so we can see what you create!
We also want to know how you’re spending your time in quarantine! Share your work, projects, and activities with us on our socials. We’d love to see what you’ve been up to!
Dream Tank is so proud of its creative, innovative community, and we know that together we can Go Big From Home and help flatten the curve to end the pandemic.
Design The Future Accelerator – ERacism + Re-imagining Education
Following the success of 4 years working with youth, Dream Tank is offering this 6 week accelerator, Design The Future, that will guide youth, along with a cohort of other youth and inter-generational leaders, from the art and power of dreaming to activating the changes they wish to see in the world. What sets Dream Tank apart is the quality of attention paid to youth’s dreams, passion and purpose through the mentorship of successful entrepreneurs. Youth voices will be heard and will be supported through the design and launch phases of their entrepreneurial journey.
Design the Future will include deep focuses/dives on personal development; the conception, design and launch of Dream Makers’ (youth ages 8-28) own individual enterprise, whether they already have an idea or a business, or not; and a weekly collaboration with your fellow Dream Makers and Game Changers towards redesigning education or your chosen collective impact theme from the below topics.
Design Challenges will be presented to youth entrepreneurs to collaborate with cross-sector leaders for moonshot goals for humanity, using a tried and tested model for collective impact. Focus will be built around the world’s most urgent challenges and the framework of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, taking youth through the stages of Dream-Design-Collaborate-Launch of ideas others have thought impossible. This program includes collective impact and the entrepreneurial journey. Our program will be taught virtually, off line, and in small ‘home circle’ groups with age groupings of 8-11, 12-15, 16-19, 20-28, but all skill building, deep dive workshops and collective impact projects will be inter-generational.
The program will culminate in a one day ‘demo day’ and collective impact summit with cross sector leaders in attendance.
The youth have called for a primary focus on ERascism: Eradicating Injustice and this will now be a component integrated into every piece of programming.
Other topics proposed by youth Dream Team Leaders:
- Healthcare Aid/Assistance
- Mental Health
- Community Resilience
- Economic Restructuring/Digital Economy
- Education
- Open Innovation
We are proud to announce the completion of our first Summit on June 5
On June 5, Dream Tank Dream Makers hosted a virtual summit.
Here are some exciting stats from our event, including the top three finalist of our Hackathon:
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We had an intergenerational, diverse group of leaders from 12 countries attend
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17 venture finalists and top 3 winners
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Press Release: the press release, sent out Thursday evening June 4, went up to 93 publications and 58 million people plus more than 3400 media member views
Following on this success, we are busy organizing a Dream Tank summer experience. Stay tuned!
Meanwhile, please sign up to join our movement here, and/or join our slack channel to connect with our growing global team and hackathon participants!
Reflecting upon Dream Tank Global Hackathon: Reverse Pandemic Challenge
The Reverse Pandemic Challenge has recently finished. We got many wonderful and innovative ideas. These came from places all around the world, and a variety of ages. So many incredibly unique ideas came from our youngest participants being as young as 8 years old, but they have shown that age is not a barrier as many of them have transformed their ideas into a reality and managed to win with their determination and the help of our excellent mentors. The judges had a really tough time trying to pick out the winners as it was impossible to decide who should win the competition. Finally, despite there being so many great ideas, we chose the ones that were the most developed and complete. During the challenge, we have shown that youth are more than ready to take charge and create new innovations to create the future.
We have proven that despite being separated physically, we are all still united.
By: Achint Aju and Keshav Soni