Help your students become the innovators of tomorrow! The Samsung Solve for Tomorrow competition invites public school students in grades 6 to 12 to demonstrate the role STEM can play in tackling some of the biggest issues facing their communities. Encourage your students to build social impact, environmental stewardship, and teamwork skills through this hands-on project. You could win a share of $2 million in prizes!

Getting started is easy! Together with your students, explore challenges facing your community and brainstorm STEM-based solutions to solve them. You only need one idea to get started! The more passionate students are about the problem, the more engaged they’ll be throughout the process. Encourage students to think creatively and be open to refining their ideas through testing. It’s key to focus on a problem your students can realistically tackle and that resonates with your local community. Once you apply, your team can begin building, gathering data, and evolving your solution. Five hundred schools will win prizes, so don’t wait to get started!

Apply by Answering 5 Short Questions:

1. Identify the challenge: What issue in your community are your students passionate about solving?
2. Explain your STEM solution: How will science, technology, engineering, or math be used to address the challenge?
3. Describe the community impact: What difference will your solution make locally?
4. Outline your planned activities: What steps will your team take to bring the solution to life?
5. Define how you’ll measure success: How will you know your solution is working?

Ideas To Kick-Start Your Brainstorming for the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Competition

This nationwide competition makes STEM accessible to all and can fit into any curriculum! Many previous winners have followed a design-thinking process that emphasizes empathy, creativity, and iteration. As students test and refine their ideas, they’ll build critical thinking, collaboration, and STEM skills that extend far beyond the competition. Check out some ideas below for how a proposed solution could fit into your subject area. Plus, get inspiration from past winners here.

Science classrooms:

• Recycling or waste issues
• Combating invasive species
• Water quality
• Health effects of air quality

English classrooms:

• Low literacy rates
• Access to books
• Indigenous language preservation
• Community advocacy efforts

Math classrooms:

• Community health and rates of disease
• Financial insecurity
• Housing discrimination
• Data analysis for local issues such as traffic or pollution

Social studies classrooms:

• Civic engagement or voter turnout
• Transportation safety
• Bullying on social media
• Disaster preparedness

Business, home and family life, or other electives:

• Fire safety
• Food insecurity
• Aiding the elderly
• Innovations for accessibility

Win Up to $100,000!

Five hundred schools will win a prize, with schools from all 50 states selected to receive Samsung technology and resources for their classroom. Learn more about prize tiers here, including bonus awards for community choice and Samsung employee choice projects. Enter the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow competition today and your school could win BIG!