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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
Dream Tank Youth Launch Global Hackathon: Reverse Pandemic Challenge
Last week the Dream Tank Team came together and decided to host a global hackathon to address and solve the many problems COVID -19 has created with unique youth ideas. Youth from all over the world will be able to build their “Dream” into “Reality” by meeting new people with different skills, and our excellent Dream Tank mentorship. The Hackathon consists of 5 main themes: Healthcare Aid/Assistance, Economic Restructuring, Education, and Open Innovation. The DreamTeam is excited to see the outcomes of this wonderful initiative!
Coronavirus Next Generation Rapid Response Team Meeting 3/19
Dream Tank is hosting a Global Virtual Meeting to recruit the young leaders who want to take action from home to address the pandemic. Through global solidarity and uniting our voices together, we can be catalysts of change for our communities.
We invite your teen to join the conversation about:
HOW THE NEXT GENERATION WILL RESPOND to our global crisis?
This will be an action planning meeting for young people ages 12-25.
REGISTER HERE:
WEST: 11AM MST / 1PM EST / 6PM CET
ABOUT:
We are forming a Coronavirus Next Generation Rapid Response Team (12 Youth Leaders) who wish to be a change agent during this critical time. The team will co-design a Global Hackathon and be invited to represent the youth voice at Boma’s Covid19 Summit and ExoWorld. These are online digital summits where pioneers such as Singularity University, Jason Silva, Peter Diamondis, and more – are collaborating to find tangible outcomes to our biggest global challenges. If you are interested in participating, we invite you to be on the call for more information. Tell your friends!
FACILITATED BY:
We work with Generation Z to design solutions to the Global Goals. Dream Tank is a 501c3, on a mission to inspire and empower kids and teens around the world to put their passion, creativity, and energy to work in making their communities better. With various programming and curricula, each focused on meaningful, social entrepreneurial innovations, we encourage kids to launch their dreams and impact their communities. Using the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals or SDGs) as a framework, we foster their entrepreneurial spirit through Dream Tank accelerators, hackathons and workshops, using a combination of digital technology and tools, collaboration, mentoring, inspiration and confidence-building.
