Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge 2023-2024
You are invited to participate in the Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge, a global innovation competition open to students at Stanford and universities around the world!
The 2023-2024 design theme is Designing for Life Transitions:
As it becomes increasingly common to live for 100 years, the traditional life course will become more complex and flexible. People may take time off at different points in their work lives to focus on family or personal development; they might return to school more than once, and they are likely to change careers several times; they may retire, only to re-enter the workforce in an entirely new capacity.
The 2023-2024 Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge invites student designers to help develop a new vision for how to move through these new life transitions. Designs may include physical products, digital solutions, or programs, and can address a life transition at any point in the life span to help make it more meaningful or healthy.
- Create a design for a product, service, or program that addresses the Challenge theme, “Designing for Life Transitions.”
- Submit your design online any time between September 11 and November 30, 2023.
- 6-8 Finalist teams will be announced on January 24, 2024.
- Finalists will be awarded $1,000 USD and paired with an experienced mentor to help prepare for the finals.
- Finalists will present their design before a panel of judges at the Finals on campus in April. Grand prizes will be awarded (1st place: $10,000 USD, 2nd place: $5,000 USD, 3rd place: $2,000 USD).
- Students of all majors/fields of study are welcome to participate!
- Each team must consist of at least one full-time student.
- Teams may have a total of up to 5 members, and may also include students from other universities and/or non-students. Students may also compete alone, as a team of 1.
- Only students are allowed to present at the Finals
